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:

 

[DPG]

At least there's somewhere to hang your test meter.

 

[Strima]

My local post office needs to get a grip of their data installers...

 

[Wilko]

My local post office needs to get a grip of their data installers...

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What's caused that do you reckon? Is it birds perhaps?

 

[SparkyChick]

That looks much like the VIR I found in a property... it was accompanied by the question "Can I turn it on?"

I'd say this example is down to sunlight or general weathering.

Edit:- It's caused by heat/UV from the fluorescent tube... just noticed what it was tied to

 

[Strima]

This is indoor and a good 10m from natural light. Looks like heat from the 6’ floro tube has caused the insulation to fail.

I did point this out to the manager and she just shrugged at me, her profit lost when her data network fails on a busy day..,

 

[Strima]

Oh yeah, this is a public area and the cables are supported by sticky pads, this is an escape route but as usual the data chimps don’t care about fire supports etc.

 

[Toneyz]

Oh yeah, this is a public area and the cables are supported by sticky pads, this is an escape route but as usual the data chimps don’t care about fire supports etc.

Too right were using metal conduit saddles for PVC conduit on escape route and data come along and just tie their bunch of cables with plastic cable ties.

 

[elsparko]

Too right were using metal conduit saddles for PVC conduit on escape route and data come along and just tie their bunch of cables with plastic cable ties.

to be fair though the pvc conduit will just melt and drip down the wall if there is a fire, leaving the nice metal saddles on the wall

 

[DPG]

But the wires within will be held up by the saddles.

 

[elsparko]

But the wires within will be held up by the saddles.

true, unless the rawl plugs melt and it all falls down

 

[HandySparks]

This is indoor and a good 10m from natural light. Looks like heat from the 6’ floro tube has caused the insulation to fail.

This nylon choc block was brittle and falling apart after sitting on a fluorescent tube. Pretty certain it will be the UV from the tube. You don't get the same effect with things resting against hot water pipes; usually some melting, if anything.

 

[freddo]

Not mine but found on an old disc from 10 years ago.

 

[westward10]

Couple from a lift motor room I have been working in this week circa 1950s. One a lift control panel, not dodgy but still operating with little evidence of alterations. The second a fused line/neutral switch fuse which has a socket connected from it, cpc cut out to boot.

 

[Deleted member 72666]

What a fantastic example that lift panel is, I see that it has been modified over the years, namely the slydlock fuses.

 

[freddo]

namely the slydlock fuses.

What age would you say the fuses are?