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:

 

[pirate]

Nicely crimped...

 

[littlespark]

What's with the red spot on the thumbnail? Hammer related accident?

 

[Strima]

What's with the red spot on the thumbnail? Hammer related accident?

The joys of awkward fixings in street furniture where the spanner doesn't quite fit and slips of regularly. A perk of the job...

 

[Judd]

Don't try and bypass your meter, especially not with some flex you cut from your table lamp.

 

[Judd]

Don't try and bypass your meter, especially not with some flex you cut from your table lamp. View attachment 41464

 

[Biff61]

Guys, you think youve seen bad, heres a few for you. I'm working in Africa, brought in to fix the issues and here are just some of them, and these are not the worst. Talk about scary.

 

[Biff61]

here's a good one, this was the MDB for a warehouse complex with 20 warehouses, 3 office blocks, on the right is the Utility supply incomer cabinet.
6 weeks solid work to replace and fix this up.

We replaced with a 250amp 250 TPN eaton load centre, steel trunking cable managment, new SDBs an ATI for generator, prior to this the loacl electrican removed the knife edge fuses and put the cable from the generator ( one hanging down) into the top holder of the KE fuse holders with a pliers.
To protect the utility supply all we could do was put 12mm perspecx sheets affixed to the dexion frames. Utility provider considered it safe in its orignal state and would not replace it with the unit we bought for them.

 

[Rpa07]

Deleted as no pictures!

Not electrical but I’m on the job so that counts.
Skirting board taken off to reveal the nail had punctured the central heating pipe but NOT caused any leak. Whether it was a tight puncture and sealed itself with lime scale is unknown but no damage seen in the area.
How sweet is that!

 

[pirate]

Lucky escape there! When I got a flat a couple of years ago the "plumber" was finishing off installing a shower, and put the outside frame on and off he went...thursday night before the september weekend, so no-one was about until I arrived on the next tuesday to meet all my downstairs neighbours paddling about in wellingtons. He had driven a screw into the cold supply pipe for the shower and it had leaked all weekend...
Certainly got to meet the neighbours!
I could go on about his reluctance to use pipe inserts with push-fit connectors...but I'll save you the angst!

 

[dksanders]

Don't tell the heating engineers forum, but on a loft conversion I'm doing, I've done the electrics and added 4 radiators to the guys heating system. Customer is an old school friend and he said he was having trouble getting someone.... I didn't touch the gas... it was only on the flow and return pipes

The original heating installation would have been specified and designed given the number and size of radiators that were installed. Did you take that into account before adding the extra 4 rads? We go ballistic when amateur electricians overload a previously sound installation based on their little bit of knowledge. Just saying.

 

[telectrix]

it'stime that someone invented an IDC tool for 1.5mm and 2.5mm T/E and flex.

 

[pirate]

Wid we no' need the sockets tae go alang wi'that but?
and how flexy wid 2.5mm t&e be?
Or are we gonnae be shovin' them intae telephone JBs?

 

[littlespark]

The original heating installation would have been specified and designed given the number and size of radiators that were installed. Did you take that into account before adding the extra 4 rads? We go ballistic when amateur electricians overload a previously sound installation based on their little bit of knowledge. Just saying.

Good point, however;-
The customer had already replaced the boiler previously after original broke down. He asked for a bigger model knowing that the loft conversion was on the cards. The heating engineer at the time had done the measurements and given him sizes of rads to buy.
And I'm not an amateur electrician... I'm a professional electrician.
Amateur at everything else. - Just saying

 

[Toneyz]

it'stime that someone invented an IDC tool for 1.5mm and 2.5mm T/E and flex.

I'm sure (think Crabtree ) once did light switches that had a push in (Wango type) connections.

 

[pirate]

Maybe...
IDC totally wrong shape for those...
Anyway, not an expert on that...or on anything, but insulation displacement may be fine for 5V, but anything more and I would be worried!
Funny, but those IDC things are so prone to working loose, just a wiggle or two and contact is lost...and when you see them stacked up...