Question re Neon Testers

[SMB]

Surely only builders use neon screwdrivers?






Ive got a volt-stick though......

 

[mayfair]

Surely only builders use neon screwdrivers?






Ive got a volt-stick though......

Niceeeeeeeeeeeeee to much information

 

[ian.settle1]

Can one of the moderators not set up a poll regarding these dangerous peices of equipment.
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For
Against
Don't care.

 

[Paul.M]

Ever since I started out I've been told never to use them. Because if the scare tactics and the rumours that I've been told I still don't use one, but there's no stories popping up on this thread about people getting a shock.

 

[Sintra]

I personally have never had a shock of one as I have never used one, although I saw a guy using one who decided he needed a better earth path so he touched his other finger onto the steel trunking. All I can say is it wasn't to long before he dropped said neon screwdriver.


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[pushrod]

A lot of sparks out there get the hump as soon as someone mentions Neon tester type mains Indicators. Q is Before there were volt stix and non contact testers etc is there any evidence of death /shocks etc among sparks from using the old fashioned mains tester? Also what did some of the old timers actually use. The subject seems to provoke such reaction amongst members there must be a lot of bad stories out there (lets hope not old wives tales) but if they are so bad why in the land of regs and more regs (UK)are they still being sold and even bundled into sets of very pro sets of screwdrivers? looking forward to your comments.

I have heard that if you go back a really long time that it was not unusual for the very first sparks to carry talcum powder. This was put on there finger which dried the skin sufficiently to increase resistance so that if you had to test if a conductor was live you just got a tingle not a belt! Can't vouch for how widespread it was - might date back to the days when the regs were printed on just 2 pages!

 

[Sintra]

I have heard that if you go back a really long time that it was not unusual for the very first sparks to carry talcum powder. This was put on there finger which dried the skin sufficiently to increase resistance so that if you had to test if a conductor was live you just got a tingle not a belt! Can't vouch for how widespread it was - might date back to the days when the regs were printed on just 2 pages!

And men were men.


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[SMB]

Talcum Powder?.............sounds more like Wigan Casino to me.

 

[mayfair]

Then them men became DEAD men

And men were men.


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[telectrix]

there are old electricians and there are bold electricians, but there ain't no old, bold electricians

and can i pleeeeeeesa have a couple of likes here just to make mt century

 

[RogertheBodger]

there are old electricians and there are bold electricians, but there ain't no old, bold electricians

and can i pleeeeeeesa have a couple of likes here just to make mt century

Well deserved like for making us all laugh.

Two pages of Regs? I think if we go that far back the only piece of paper a sparky needed to get to work was a tram ticket.

 

[rocker]

Someone from the wirral being an arse ......so whats fresh OUCH my mrs is from elesmere port and seen this lol

Wirral? You cheeky sod, I'm South Wales, mate! Wirral indeed.

 

[telectrix]

thank god for that rocker, thought you'd emigrated.

 

[mayfair]

Sorry m8 dont know where i got Wirral from thats almost as bad as Sunny Wales .............When

Wirral? You cheeky sod, I'm South Wales, mate! Wirral indeed.

 

[ian.settle1]

Someone from the wirral being an arse ......so whats fresh OUCH my mrs is from elesmere port and seen this lol

Not the infamous Stanney estate is it