Good Morning Thread - Come say good morning, tell us what you've got on today. :)

We have this thread on TilersForums.com and it's just been restarted because the old thread had 20,000 replies and 500,000 views. And there were 700 pages. Started to lag a bit on slow connections.

I think we had a bash of this before, but I can't find the thread, so thought I'd start another one off.

If you have time in the mornings, come post in the thread before you head off to work, let us know what you've got on and what the weather is like in your area etc. Anything at all is fine.

Posts and likes get counted towards your total stats in this thread.

So GOOOD MORNING PEOPLE - WEATHER IS NICE TODAY IN STOKE. I'M THANKFUL IT'S FRIDAY, HAD A RUBBISH WEEK. THANK GOD IT'S OVER.

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[James]

When I was younger I used to love big cable pulls, as I have aged not so much!
Thank goodness for modern cable pulling equipment, coupled with rollers, makes life a little less painful the next few days!

Not many sparks play with cables that weigh over 10kg per meter and flex about as easily as trying to bend a tree limb.
its a slow measured process and there have been times when i have spent an hour or 2 adjusting the way a cable bends and sits on the tray before continuing with the next section.

biggest i ever did was 240mm 4 core, required many people and a fork lift to drag it through each section. if i was ever asked to do the same again, i would decline and suggest a company that is used to working with that size of cable.
i think it was about 30kg per meter but felt like 100kg per meter!!

 

[SparkySy]

Biggest I have been involved with so far was a 185mm 4core at a job in Daventry some years ago that was 120 meters up over a machine shop then down through a duct in another building.
Many hands, cable Jacks and rollers used and a winch system to get it up over the machine shop.

Not installed anything over a 50mm for about 10 years and they can be trouble enough!

Last one we did was a baby 35mm 5core only 50 meters but up and over another machine shop to supply a large twin headed plasma cutter.

 

[pirate]

This morning I am going to visit my daughter briefly to uplift a power supply, then it's off to Luss on Loch Lomond for a walk and a good lunch.
I'll be having the lentil and bacon soup and the steak pie!

 

[Mike Johnson]

Today I will be sorting out my fly fishing tackle ready for next week when I hope I will feel well enough to go to the river, this mornings breakfast will be Eggs Viennese.

 

[littlespark]

I’d rather have a viennetta for my breakfast… a full one to myself!


Had an issue with my van through the week. Was testing a mobile food trailer, and needed 230v power… so got myself a 150w inverter that plugs into the vans 12v lighter socket.

Lights worked fine, but the start up current of the fridge blew the van fuse rather than tripping the inverter.

Cue laying at a funny angle in the van pulling random fuses looking for the blown one.
One fuse was misplaced into the wrong slot, and I drove home with no indicators or brake lights.
Trying to fix that issue, I dropped the fuse into the centre console, and it’s slid away under the floor somewhere….

So that’s 2 new fuses I needed. But now all ok.

 

[nicebutdim]

you did not!

the lego one? or did you win a wago?

Gloating got me a long way. I responded to their email and then nothing ever arrived. Sent a direct message to Wago UK and subsequently contacted their marketing team as per response to that message, but never received a reply.

Always leaves a bad taste in my mouth when a company decides to promote themselves and then fails to deliver on promises - especially when it's a company whose products you'd always been very happy with. Maybe this lego thing will turn up in the fullness of time, but I won't hold my breath. Shame they have the connector market so well sown up that I can't mount an imperceptible one man protest

 

[littlespark]

Gloating got me a long way. I responded to their email and then nothing ever arrived. Sent a direct message to Wago UK and subsequently contacted their marketing team as per response to that message, but never received a reply.

Always leaves a bad taste in my mouth when a company decides to promote themselves and then fails to deliver on promises - especially when it's a company whose products you'd always been very happy with. Maybe this lego thing will turn up in the fullness of time, but I won't hold my breath. Shame they have the connector market so well sown up that I can't mount an imperceptible one man protest

one man?

You’ve got the entire ElectriciansForums behind you!

 

[Moley]

It's 10.40 and I've already been to our stores, set up the DGA analyser, driven to Avonmouth and back and I'm about to analyse some oil samples. I thought Sundays are supposed to be quiet days off

 

[SparkySy]

So did I @Moley!
So far this morning I have been and retrieved my PC after it died on me on Friday and has now been fixed.
Started putting all the programs back on it.
Realised that all my Easycert certificates from the last 5 years are gone apart from the PDF copies
I hate technology when it doesn't work!!

 

[Moley]

I feel your pain. I've lost important stuff in the past. Now I try to back things up either on the works networked drive or my own network drive. If its really important it goes on both.

 

[Dan]

Morning all. Sad day but have to move on from it hey!

Well done to the England team for getting so far, and also scoring a goal as that sometimes doesn't even happen.

 

[Moley]

I'm currently on my way from Wales to Kent. Got to take oil samples from 2 transformers then up to Bedford area for the night.

 

[Dan]

What do you do with the samples then mate? Do they need to be tested for something I assume? If so, what you looking for in it?

You've got a fair few miles on your van I bet?!

 

[pirate]

Off to the gym shortly, then to my nearby Amazon Locker and then back to Loch Lomond to renew my boat registration (late, as usual!).
In the afternoon it's a trip to the Men's Shed.

Yesterday was a good day for Spanish sports fans. I enjoyed watching Alcaraz demolish Djokovic, but the football was a bit disappointing. I am a fan of most thgings Spanish, but even though I'm Scottish I still cheer for England when they are playing anyone not Scottish...unlike many who still think it's normal to cheer for whoever is playing England.

Have a good week everyone!

 

[Dan]

Eyup pirate!

What boat you got again mate?

I usually aren't much for football myself but tend to get behind England when they're playing but would cheer any UK country (still doesn't feel right saying "a UK Country").

My grandparents were Welsh and when I did a family tree a bit ago I managed to hook up my tree to somebody who knows what they're doing just by pure chance of him being a distant relative, and going back generations the family seemed to go from south Wales to West Midlands and back again every other generation.

So I now have a bit of a nice connection to Wales that's not just thrashing downhill bikes around the valleys.

I'd cheer them all day long, but would Scotland or N.ireland (even republic in fact) if they get further than England.