Dodgy trade pictures for your amusement! - 1 Million Views!

[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]

Oh a back box straddling the grout line!

 

[MrPupsi]

I thought the last one I put up was bad….

 

[Dartlec]

I thought the last one I put up was bad….

That's almost impressive...

but......why!!! Cables look long enough - what possible benefit is there in doing it that way??

 

[Dustydazzler]

I’d be ripping that shyt straight off the wall and re-doing it all again

 

[GBDamo]

I thought the last one I put up was bad….

Can't fathom where the dark brown tail in the second RCD goes.

 

[timhoward]

Can't fathom where the dark brown tail in the second RCD goes.

Has to be bottom of main switch....somehow...doesn't it? but agree it seems to vanish!

 

[timhoward]

My money's on that being a dead camera now!

Amazing things happen sometimes that seem to defy everything....
No photo's as it was years ago. But someone I knew was once trying to work out why a video was recording pictures but not sound. They wanted to stick a multi-meter on the sound recording head.
But they didn't have one. So they had the astoundingly creative idea of using the analogue to digital converter on a BBC micro joystick port, designed to measure from 0 to 1.8v DC.
As soon as they connected the 0v on the analogue in port to the (presumably) 230v AC on the recording head it blew the 30A fuse (wired).
So when I turned up to replace the fuse wire, I was most curious what state the computer and video were in afterwards. To my utter amazement the computer was perfectly fine and the joystick port worked on all 4 channels, and the video not only worked but now recorded sound.....!

 

[GBDamo]

Has to be bottom of main switch....somehow...doesn't it? but agree it seems to vanish!

You'll think so but, going by the rest, nothing is certain.

 

[Julie.]

What in the name of everything unholy is this!!????

Just making sure we don't obtain continuity of the CPC!

And how the f could it obtain ce compliance to non-CE standards?

 

[DPG]

What in the name of everything unholy is this!!????
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Just making sure we don't obtain continuity of the CPC!

And how the f could it obtain ce compliance to non-CE standards?

Got to love those plugs. I like how they go to the effort of partially sleeved live and neutral pins, but then get carried away and do the earth pin as well!

 

[timhoward]

What in the name of everything unholy is this!!????
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Just making sure we don't obtain continuity of the CPC!

And how the f could it obtain ce compliance to non-CE standards?

CE = Chinese Export presumably!

 

[Julie.]

Got to love those plugs. I like how they go to the effort of partially sleeved live and neutral pins, but then get carried away and do the earth pin as well!

Yeah just ridiculous, but the biggest demonstration of the farce and complete disregard for compliance with any standards whatsoever is the "CE" mark.

Especially when it's impossible to comply!

 

[DPG]

Yeah just ridiculous, but the biggest demonstration of the farce and complete disregard for compliance with any standards whatsoever is the "CE" mark.

Especially when it's impossible to comply!

Indeed. Some of those Chinese manufacturers really don't care.

 

[pc1966]

What in the name of everything unholy is this!!????

The lesser-fused widow maker?

 

[Simon47]

What in the name of everything unholy is this!!????

Knocked up in some Chinese small factory, by people with only a passing idea of what the standards actually are and mean. Probably read that British plugs have to have sleeved pins these days - so sleeve the pins.
If it was bought via one of the online tat bazaars, then it needs reporting to the bazaar as a dangerous and illegal item - so it can be blocked for the few seconds it will take the vendor to create a new account.
If it was bought from a UK or EU seller then it needs reporting to the relevant authorities (Trading Standards in the UK) as well as any bazaar that might have facilitated it's sale.

Just out of interest, what are the pins like for spacing and dimensions ? I see stuff that's got really rubbish pin dimensions and doesn't fit the sockets properly. Had to tell one of the church wardens to "lose" the ultrasonic rodent repellents (cheap tat off Amazon) before I did any testing as they'd all fail due to that.