Oh no not ammendment 3 again

[Pete999]

1st day back at work today after a long lay off nothing much to do so the internet beckoned. I decided to have a look at Amd 3 and was amazed at some of the disinformation coming from some of the Distribution board manufacturers, I read and printed off a copy of amd3 from the IET and it clearly states " domestic consumer unite shall be made of non combustible or a not readily combustible material " Where as virtually the same document from a well known distribution board maker (beginning with H~~~r) saying that the domestic CU must be made from NON COMBUSTIBLE MATERIAL scare mongering or what?. I appreciate it's a work in progress but someone ought to take these people to task, we should wait until Ammendment three is ratified before jumping to conclusion, what are your thoughts?

 

[telectrix]

any navy blokes on site can tell if a fully armed nuclear sub can navigate the munchester sh!t canal?

 

[SPARTYKUS]

Steel is combustible .... Eventually

 

[Silly Sausage]

Subs can't as far as Manc because of all the stolen Scouse cars that have been dumped in it at your end.

 

[Marvo]

Steel is combustible .... Eventually

Steel is lethal in a fire if it's galvanised.

 

[Richard Burns]

Steel is lethal in a fire if it's galvanised.

That is vaporization of zinc; one that comes up in welding, don't weld galvanized.

 

[SPARTYKUS]

I didn't know that!

 

[telectrix]

Subs can't as far as Manc because of all the stolen Scouse cars that have been dumped in it at your end.

what did you expect. clapped out manc cars, not fit to keep hold of.

 

[SPARTYKUS]

Just looked it up. Not nice reading.

 

[Silly Sausage]

what did you expect. clapped out manc cars, not fit to keep hold of.

It's great here in Mancunia, we've got the riffraff down the road to clear our mess up.

 

[Marvo]

That is vaporization of zinc; one that comes up in welding, don't weld galvanized.

Yep, vapourizing zinc is a severe health hazard on its own but the biggest problem is often when the steel becomes hot enough for the zinc coating to liquidize or melt it then runs off and drips over anything in the vicinity causing those things to spontaneously combust.

 

[shanky887614]

NIC in their wisdom have been spouting that the only way to comply will be sheet steel.....sounds like a load of sheet to me. It would be infinately more sense if the IET introduced an amendment outlawing single screw cage clamp terminals on main switches and making deep tunnels with two screw terminals standard. CU enclosures could then be made of kindling wood and there still wouldn't be any fires.

roflol

steel board with plastic mcb's.

where do you guys get your bakelight/pakeolin from for your new ccu installs or are you going to add a plastic header?

 

[robsparky1975]

I want a free copy of the regs and OSG too as these basterwards have got nothing better to do but cost us all money and our clients too for stupidness caused by unskilled labour,I agree that mainswitches should revert back to the switches like the 5419 of yesteryear to which I have never seen one wooden backed old wylex that showed any signs of heat damage after being installed for over 40 years,the amount of old switchgear of that era still in service and still going strong is a testament to the sparks of that time and also the quality of kit available,nowadays cheap as poss and thrown in.So non combustable is really going to solve the issues then,think not IEE.

 

[trev]

What about those PVC covered cables? Or are we heading towards wiring everything in pyro?

 

[Guest55]

im going to metal clad all my customers placcy CU's by wrapping them in tin foil....

ha ha , fuk you IET !

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[shanky887614]

im going to metal clad all my customers placcy CU's by wrapping them in tin foil....

ha ha , fuk you IET !

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