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[Darkwood]

Right ... Just been nudged to set this up by Paul.M and sounds a good idea following recent threads I've done in the Arms..

Rules....No Offensive material... edit if required before posting as this is the public arena.
Anything to do with the trade or in and around it ...H&S pic's welcome.



I've posted this a few times and this is at a mates house following a kitchen refirb several yrs ago. mg_smile:

 

[Mike Johnson]

That's terrible, no grommet on the back box. ?

 

[loz2754]

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Never seen that before.

 

[littlespark]

Ahh, the cores have been tinned with solder??
I though it was just old alu stranded cables

 

[loz2754]

Ahh, the cores have been tinned with solder??
I though it was just old alu stranded cables

Not just tinned with solder, an actual soldered joint.

 

[LewisM]

Matey reckons it was like that for 40+ years his mate who was a marine engineer did it for him

 

[Pete999]

That's terrible, no grommet on the back box. ?

IF the cables are fixed so they don't move ,then a grommet is not required, I believe,

 

[Mike Johnson]

IF the cables are fixed so they don't move ,then a grommet is not required, I believe,

It was meant as a humorous comment, taking into account the amount wrong in that particular installation, good grief Pete must have been a heavy night.

 

[Pete999]

It was meant as a humorous comment, taking into account the amount wrong in that particular installation, good grief Pete must have been a heavy night.

Not heavy just a normal evening just like the nights in Bath during it's ,

 

[Pete999]

Not heavy just a normal evening just like the nights in Bath during it's heyday , don;t even try asking O value my existence get the picture?,

 

[Julie.]

Not heavy just a normal evening just like the nights in Bath during it's ,

Bath nights still a special evening then.

 

[pc1966]

Bath nights still a special evening then.

Depends with whom...

 

[Mike Johnson]

My closest neighbour is a marine engineer and spends normally ten weeks on board getting to wherever they are going, but as he says being on the water in the Atlantic you make do with what you have to hand.

 

[telectrix]

every Xmas whether i need one or not.

 

[static zap]

Matey reckons it was like that for 40+ years his mate who was a marine engineer did it for him

Working on well rotted , Landy wiring ,a good layer of solder makes for a low rot joint . (But hopeless for screw terminals as solder creeps under compression.
(so would not surprise me it that was a marine way)

 

[DJAndy]

Something wrong with the shower mate...