Back to basics

[thekingiam]

After reading a previous post on tiny Rawls plugs that I never new existed I thought maybe there's lots of stuff I may not know that other people just use as a matter of course.
I always carry a collection of different sized clout nails to fix capping after using pins just kept snapping PVC capping.
Hints and ---- gentlemen?

 

[telectrix]

wondered when talk of ---- would crop up.:drunk:

 

[thekingiam]

Oops mind was on something else

 

[telectrix]

i save all the 3036 fuses out of stripped out wylex boards. carry a few on the van. so much easier than threading a fuse wire in the dark on a call out at night.

 

[thekingiam]

i save all the 3036 fuses out of stripped out wylex boards. carry a few on the van. so much easier than threading a fuse wire in the dark on a call out at night.

good tip I have a collection I keep in cellar for just that reason I also keep henly blocks, and when working with swa 25mm keep some left overs for tails rather than scrapy getting it all.

 

[thekingiam]

New swa I mean

 

[Paul.M]

i save all the 3036 fuses out of stripped out wylex boards. carry a few on the van. so much easier than threading a fuse wire in the dark on a call out at night.

Cheap skate , get some 3036 toggle switches in the back of your van and charge accordingly.

 

[telectrix]

Cheap skate , get some 3036 toggle switches in the back of your van and charge accordingly.

i carry a few of them as well. technically, though, by fitting them, it is changing the characteristics of the circuit/s and by rights testing and paperwork should be done.

 

[johnboy6083]

with breeze block, and soft brick, just screw through the capping into the brick. no plug or pilot hole required, as its only holding it there until the plasterer gets there.

 

[DHES]

If you need a good fixing in breeze block drill a 5.5 hole then use a plasterboard fixing (pigtail) instead of A wall plug I have done this many times and all the plasma screens are still on the Walls

 

[telectrix]

a tip i've just discovered today. installing 2 sockets in an egg box wall. to get the cable through the egg box i used a piece of scrap 15mm copper pipe, hammered it through, then threaded the 2.5 T/E through the hole the pipe had bashed through.