Lost or forgotten installation tips from the past!

[Pete999]

Just thinking back to my Apprenticeship time, and working on a Large luxury Housing development, the chap I was working under, was a strict, but knowledgeable Electrician.
At the time in question we used metallic oval conduit for our switch drop and sockets etc., one of his rules where possible were that all switch drops had the conduit cut to the same length and the same for the runs from the floor up to the socket positions, during the first fix he would always inquire as to which make of sockets we were going to used for the second fix, so much so that he insisted that if the L was on the right hand side of the accessory, I had to feed the 7/029 cable up the conduit , with the L on the right hand side, didn't think it mattered all that much, until you came to install the socket, and how much easier it was with the cables entering the back box all on the same side.
Anyone else got any odd little tips that they were taught, that may have gotten lost over the years?, another one was marking the lighting cables at the ceiling rose, switched pair with a cross and the feeds in and out with a split at the end for identification, simple things I know.

 

[Pete999]

Wasn't it the combined efforts of many nations?

UK and the Septics albeit a late inclusion
Remember the Few!!!! They saved our butts make no mistake, Poles, and others

 

[Deuce]

A lot of the younger generation have short memories Tel, or their History lessons were crap

I left school at 14 so perhaps I missed some important bits!

 

[davesparks]

UK and the Septics albeit a late inclusion

So no French, Polish, Norwegian, Russian, Australian, Burmese, Canadian, New Zealand or any other nations then?

 

[Pete999]

I left school at 14 so perhaps I missed some important bits!

What year was that?

 

[Deuce]

What year was that?

Umm... 1995/6ish. There were various attempts to drag me back for about a year, but by then I was approaching my 16th birthday so it became pointless. It's a bit different now - they have powers to force attendance.

 

[Pete999]

Umm... 1995/6ish. There were various attempts to drag me back for about a year, but by then I was approaching my 16th birthday so it became pointless. It's a bit different now - they have powers to force attendance.

So you should have learnt all about WW2 by then.

 

[buzzlightyear]

Old sparky i worked for said to me make sure the live was feed to the wright in the socket .me i asked but which hole

 

[ackbarthestar]

When pulling multiple singles int conduit, if possible, use a piece of cardboard or thin plywood with the same number of holes in it, to correspond to the number of singles being pulled in, to alleviate possible crossover of cables in the conduit. Little things mean a lot, sometimes.

We never did that as you never knew when you needed to send another up/down the tube.......lube is a very useful you know!

 

[Deuce]

So you should have learnt all about WW2 by then.

Indeed, I did. And as a young lad it was quite interesting. But history tends to recall the facts, not so much the reason.

I knew the Americans came in late and that the war was turned by that point anyway. I don't think it was ever taught that they were at one stage hoping for a ---- win.

I can certainly make sense of that knowledge now though. They didn't want to spend money on fighting someone else's war(s) and their safest bet was to try and align their trade with the likely victors. I have no doubt the same is happening elsewhere in the world today.

 

[telectrix]

Wasn't it the combined efforts of many nations?

yes, but not the vichy frogs. they opposed the Torch landings in Tunisia .

 

[telectrix]

So no French, Polish, Norwegian, Russian, Australian, Burmese, Canadian, New Zealand or any other nations then?

not to forget the Gurkas.

 

[johnduffell]

history tends to recall the facts, not so much the reason.

Only records the facts according to the winners! It's hard to get the other point of view sometimes.

 

[Deuce]

This thread may have slipped slightly off course.

 

[Deleted member 26818]

Is that, that new fangled Union Flag?
Introduced during the Peninsular campaign if I recall correctly.

 

[Pete999]

We never did that as you never knew when you needed to send another up/down the tube.......lube is a very useful you know!

That's down to bad planning Mate, pulling cables in on top of others is not a good idea.