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as title. let's have some of you pet hates with the trade.
I'll start off with a couple:

1. Captive screws that fall out and get lost when nothing in your parts stock will do.
2. terminal screws that you can't see the head and need to tighten by feel ( many ceiling roses are this).
 
Yeah when I wrote it I thought it didn't read very well; sorry!
Anyway, I meant CUs which are a mess inside Pete, with far too many cables in them. Also meant the neutrals and CPCs are terminated in no particular order, so when testing it can take 20 minutes finding the right conductors in order to test.

As an example I had the one below a few months back, finding the CPCs on the ring I was working on was a reet pain...get some cable markers on em! And had to take 6-7 RCBOs out to get to the cables I needed to. They should have had more ccts coming in through the bottom or on the left hand side..

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One of our regulars has a 20 module loadstar DB with 18 RCBO's. I wish I had a picture of it to post, without doubt the most crammed board I've ever seen. It once took me half an hour to replace one faulty RCBO. The space above the RCBO's is literally solid copper.
 
The cultured English voice over guy that does the false Scandinavian radio ads for Volvo and Ikea! Really patronising! Why don't they get a real Swede :confused:
 
What do you mean ? practice what they preach.
I was doing some hot works, grinder style, with permit, in basement - our safety rep picked up that we didn't have an extinguisher right next to us. Fair enough though he could have said it with less words! So I set it up, finished the works, put everything away, come back literally 3 minutes and he's up a step ladder preparing to grind a stud bolt off the ceiling with no extinguisher back up and definitely no permit! I mentioned it in passing!
He comes back later and picks up on my 'one handed grinding' and I mention the irony to him and he gets defensive. Quite amusing.
It has taught me to always have an extinguisher though and to direct the sparks away from my hi viz!
 
Surely it must be dangerous to do hot works with a high viz on as no one can tell whether you're on fire or not?

Do you not have high vis with iron filings embedded in them?
Then if you catch fire the people round you can say "Oooooh" and "Ahhhh" as you run past them....
 
The cultured English voice over guy that does the false Scandinavian radio ads for Volvo and Ikea! Really patronising! Why don't they get a real Swede :confused:
here's a couple of Swedes, or are they Katie Price's implants?

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