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:

 

[freddo]

Rubbish but very expensive lights from several years ago, the LEDs were run so hard they got hot enough to melt the solder on the connecting wires. I had to replace the fittings several times, they gave out a horrible dim very blue white light. A right pain as the lights were on large heavy paintings. The lights were around £300 each IIRC.

 

[johnduffell]

Those star leds are supposed to be fixed to a decent heat sink to get rid of the several Watts or heat they give off. Maybe the problem is with whatever they are clamped to not taking the heat away

 

[freddo]

The heatsink was fairly chunky, about 2" deep, the heat also spread into the solid brass fitting. Using several LEDs and running them at a lower current would be preferable.

 

[Zdb]

Saw this on Facebook

 

[freddo]

On a farm, farm building roof collapsed years ago. The 2 circuits with fuses in were still in use. The next time I visited the farmer had connected a 3ph motor to the supply by wedging wires into 3 of the unused fuseways. The wiring in another location caught fire when a submain cable had a fault. IIRC the cartridge fuses in the 3ph switch fuse (which was just lying on on the floor) couldn't blow as they had been replaced with pieces of fencing wire, the supply tails, meter and cutout caught fire instead. The original wiring here was very neatly installed. Has a nice cast iron manual star delta starter on the grain mill, still in use.

 

[freddo]

Slightly different take on the usual scenario of no gland whatsoever...

I found another the other day, an entire armour gland inside a trs gland. It saddens me to think that I'll never reach this level of creativity.

 

[Rpa07]

I found another the other day, an entire armour gland inside a trs gland. It saddens me to think that I'll never reach this level of creativity.
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Must try harder Freddo!

 

[GBDamo]

I found another the other day, an entire armour gland inside a trs gland. It saddens me to think that I'll never reach this level of creativity.
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spent far too long looking at that to find the issue, wood for trees.

At least the banjo is on.

 

[DPG]

Obviously the hole in the gland plate was too big for the gland. Novel solution though

 

[GBDamo]

On a farm, farm building roof collapsed years ago. The 2 circuits with fuses in were still in use. The next time I visited the farmer had connected a 3ph motor to the supply by wedging wires into 3 of the unused fuseways. The wiring in another location caught fire when a submain cable had a fault. IIRC the cartridge fuses in the 3ph switch fuse (which was just lying on on the floor) couldn't blow as they had been replaced with pieces of fencing wire, the supply tails, meter and cutout caught fire instead. The original wiring here was very neatly installed. Has a nice cast iron manual star delta starter on the grain mill, still in use.
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At some point in history that was a nice job.

Kind of let itself go though...

 

[telectrix]

a fly lead from banjo to gland plate and one to earth bar would makie it compliant.

 

[GBDamo]

a fly lead from banjo to gland plate and one to earth bar would makie it compliant.

Yes, yes but the thought was there and that's what counts.

 

[telectrix]

wrong. it's tellers or scrooge that count

 

[GBDamo]

wrong. it's tellers or scrooge that count

Only The Count really counts

 

[freddo]

a fly lead from banjo to gland plate and one to earth bar would makie it compliant.

From that comment it is clear you can't see the rest of the installation! The wiring at this site is some of the most non-compliant I have ever seen. Thank goodness the place is shut down.