Mindboggling stupidity.....

[Myles]

Got to share this one with you...

So my friend and I have been working on a load of warehouses/industrial units in Reading rewiring.

This bloke from the unit next door pops in to see me (knowing I am doing electrical work) and says 'Scuse mate could you pop next door and see if there is any power at a socket for me?'

I go to the next door unit to see if the (blue commando style) socket has power (they want to plug in a compressor)

TO MY UTTER HORROR I find that this bloke has dismantled an old 3phase isolator and (drum roll here...) wired the red to line, blue to neutral and yellow to earth in this socket.

Thankfully it wasn't live but they didn't know either way...obviously just taking care not to touch the wires.

 

[GLENNSPARK]

Got to share this one with you...

So my friend and I have been working on a load of warehouses/industrial units in Reading rewiring.

This bloke from the unit next door pops in to see me (knowing I am doing electrical work) and says 'Scuse mate could you pop next door and see if there is any power at a socket for me?'

I go to the next door unit to see if the (blue commando style) socket has power (they want to plug in a compressor)

TO MY UTTER HORROR I find that this bloke has dismantled an old 3phase isolator and (drum roll here...) wired the red to line, blue to neutral and yellow to earth in this socket.

Thankfully it wasn't live but they didn't know either way...obviously just taking care not to touch the wires.

bell end alert bell end alert.....lol...

 

[telectrix]

Got to share this one with you...

So my friend and I have been working on a load of warehouses/industrial units in Reading rewiring.

This bloke from the unit next door pops in to see me (knowing I am doing electrical work) and says 'Scuse mate could you pop next door and see if there is any power at a socket for me?'

I go to the next door unit to see if the (blue commando style) socket has power (they want to plug in a compressor)

TO MY UTTER HORROR I find that this bloke has dismantled an old 3phase isolator and (drum roll here...) wired the red to line, blue to neutral and yellow to earth in this socket.

Thankfully it wasn't live but they didn't know either way...obviously just taking care not to touch the wires.

i hope you put them right and told them it should now be brown,black, grey.

 

[D Skelton]

I've seen this exact thing done on two seperate occasions! The first time was a call out because there was a small 240V lighting rig plugged in to the commando socket and upon being energised all the stage lighting went bang quite spectacularly! Glass everywhere! The second was to a TP motor through a blue commando socket. RBY singles to the socket (no cpc) and a three core SWA on the plug end with the armour just cut away and taped off.

Some peoples monumental stupidity never ceases to amaze me!

 

[Myles]

i hope you put them right and told them it should now be brown,black, grey.

Ha! I was more interested in explaining the 3phase / single phase difference and the results of getting a 415 poke ..... Didn't get round to explaining the colour changes.... Though he figured blue was neutral....

 

[telectrix]

why explain. you can't educate pork.

 

[Myles]

My friend I work with uses the term 'Neolithic Incompetance'

 

[D Skelton]

My friend I work with uses the term 'Neolithic Incompetance'

I would say that is an insult to the neanderthals. They did afterall create fire, probably the single most important event that catapulted our species to where it is today. Without it we would probably all still be neanderthals.

 

[GLENNSPARK]

why explain. you can't educate pork.

nope...
you really cant educate pork tel...

reminds me of the time we went to this factory...powder coaters in south leeds....

there it was...all taped up to hell....

starters with no fronts....lol..

exposed joints everyware....lol...

allsorts...

 

[telectrix]

I would say that is an insult to the neanderthals. They did afterall create fire, probably the single most important event that catapulted our species to where it is today. Without it we would probably all still be neanderthals.

creation of fire was certainly a step forward. without fire, it's doubtful if beer could have been invented.

 

[Guitarist]

Hope you charged them for saving their miserable lives.

 

[Lucien Nunes]

I've seen a sophisticated version of this using two blue 16A 2P+E sockets, L1 N & E in one labelled 'A' and L2, L3 and E in the other labelled 'B'. The 3P hoist had a 4-core TRS flex split with 2 cores going to plug A and two to B. The single-phase lighting dimmer was wired in the normal fashion with a big sign on the flex 'Never plug into socket B'. Presumably the DIYer who did it had never seen a red socket.

 

[Deleted member 72666]

I would say that is an insult to the neanderthals. They did afterall create fire, probably the single most important event that catapulted our species to where it is today. Without it we would probably all still be neanderthals.

....And don't forget they gave us Amsterdam, 'funny cake' and the red light district!.......or is that Netherlands?

 

[Robotstar5]

The single-phase lighting dimmer was wired in the normal fashion with a big sign on the flex 'Never plug into socket B'.

But being British, the first thing we do is plug it in to see what happens! :lol:

 

[Guitarist]

As the old saying goes, "we believe scientists who tell us that there are billions of Galaxies in the universe, yet when a sign says wet paint, we have to poke it to see for ourselves..."