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.

 

[DPG]

You need to Google it. They do exist. I'll have a tenner on it.

 

[Deuce]

You need to Google it. They do exist. I'll have a tenner on it.

A tenner on what? There being a product that is called a 'screw nail'? No way - I know there are!

But it's still just a nail. There is no hybrid that works as both, in both directions.

 

[Silly Sausage]

A tenner on what? There being a product that is called a 'screw nail'? No way - I know there are!

But it's still just a nail. There is no hybrid that works as both, in both directions.

It's uni-directional screw, get used to it

 

[Deuce]

It's uni-directional screw, get used to it

It's not! You try turning that f***** into a timber without drilling a hole first and then tell me its uni-directional!

Anyway, I said I had time to argue this point as I had a day off. Well it's clocking off time now, so the day off is over. As such I have a steak to cook and some wine to guzzle. Go try and convince someone else of your wonder-screw/nail

 

[DPG]

So do I get me tenner? Feel free to use the optimistic button.

 

[DPG]

Ooh a disagree . Harsh.

 

[telectrix]

if you hit it with a hammer, it's either:
1. a nail
2. a non-electrical fault.
3. an apprentice.

 

[Rpa07]

So many euphemisms so little time - even DPG with annular! Priceless!

You can get threaded nails, ie a nail with a screw thread but a plain flat head for knocking in with a hammer. Haven't seen any for years but I think they were supposed to drive in and grip better than annulars.