is it just me?

telectrix · Feb 14, 2016

as title. do you all scrap your offcuts or save them for that small job. e.g. extra socket 2m run, or scrap it alla nd just use a new drum.

GMES · Feb 14, 2016

I'm guilty of just binning it most of the time, I haven't got time to mess around with it and if you're not careful as said you just end up hoarding the stuff. Having just said that I've got 2 lads now so maybe time to get them collecting it and they can divvy it up at xmas time between them.

GMES · Feb 14, 2016

Also just remembered I've got some 500mm singles in the office, I might just keep them for myself, well I don't want to spoil the lads too much do I !!!

rolyberkin · Feb 14, 2016

As a distribution apprentice in the 80's my team made the apprentice (me) strip the waste cable so there was no pvc so they got a better price, there were buckets in the van for aluminum, copper and lead. There were also waste bins at the yard but not much seemed to make it's way into them, happy days!

Geordie Spark · Feb 14, 2016

Leesparkykent said:
True and even working the maths out at that its still a lot so time to have a word I think lol.

Tel has a magic trick that he performs on scrap cable that converts it into ..........

..... BEER!!! :8::drunk:

davesparks · Feb 14, 2016

telectrix said:
if they were my jobs with £1800 of scrap cables left over, i'd be asking some serious questions.

I'd rather be scrapping it than having to replace cable runs because I'd been just a little bit too tight with the ordering!

Leesparkykent · Feb 14, 2016

davesparks said:
I'd rather be scrapping it than having to replace cable runs because I'd been just a little bit too tight with the ordering!

Better to be looking at it than for it.

davesparks · Feb 14, 2016

Leesparkykent said:
Better to be looking at it than for it.

Exactly!

Although wiring my mates shed in MI this weekend I am being a bit more careful about not wasting any!

Leesparkykent · Feb 14, 2016

davesparks said:
Exactly!

Although wiring my mates shed in MI this weekend I am being a bit more careful about not wasting any!

MI for a shed, that's a bit extravagant is it not?

davesparks · Feb 14, 2016

Leesparkykent said:
MI for a shed, that's a bit extravagant is it not?

Ridiculously extravagent and over the top, but it's going to look beautiful when it's done!
I've got a spare drum in the shed which has already been paid for by someone so I'm using it on this one as any other surface wiring would **** against a dark wood wall in my opinion (it's more of a home office/man cave/home cinema kind of room than a shed) plus I'm going to use it for a scheme assessment and I like to wind the assessors up wherever possible

and if a 1.5mm 32A ring and a CU without anything terminated in the earth bar doesn't wind them up then I don't know what will.

davesparks · Feb 14, 2016

Leesparkykent · Feb 14, 2016

davesparks said:
Ridiculously extravagent and over the top, but it's going to look beautiful when it's done!
I've got a spare drum in the shed which has already been paid for by someone so I'm using it on this one as any other surface wiring would **** against a dark wood wall in my opinion (it's more of a home office/man cave/home cinema kind of room than a shed) plus I'm going to use it for a scheme assessment and I like to wind the assessors up wherever possible and if a 1.5mm 32A ring and a CU without anything terminated in the earth bar doesn't wind them up then I don't know what will.

Haha trust you lol. Who you going with out of interest?

davesparks · Feb 14, 2016

Leesparkykent said:
Haha trust you lol. Who you going with out of interest?

Of course, I've had a really **** week and I find doing that kind of thing almost therapeutic (yes I'm weird)

I'm going with stroma, hopefully they'll be better than elecsa were.

davesparks · Feb 14, 2016

Plus I also have a trainee along who will benefit from learning how to work with MICC (after all, I earn a ridiculous amount in certain areas just because I can)

Leesparkykent · Feb 14, 2016

davesparks said:
Plus I also have a trainee along who will benefit from learning how to work with MICC (after all, I earn a ridiculous amount in certain areas just because I can)

About 5years ago when worked slowed up a little bit I subbed to a firm and we done a fire station in MI. Haven't really touched much since but still have all the tools incase the occasion arises.

davesparks · Feb 15, 2016

Leesparkykent said:
About 5years ago when worked slowed up a little bit I subbed to a firm and we done a fire station in MI. Haven't really touched much since but still have all the tools incase the occasion arises.

Ah, the occasion arises at least once a month for me, I've got myself a cushy little number doing odds and sods for a west end theatre which is listed and heavily regulated so it's MI everywhere. And when an hour there earns me about the same as a ten hour day doing domestic work locally I can't really say no!