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My scummy fridge that's older than you worked fine until you fitted that fuseboard! Never had that problem on my old asbestos fused wooden one
 
This ones industrial, it’s also a bit of a long story.

We had a 2000HP fan fitted with a slip ring motor and liquid starter. Saturday afternoon we would test run the fan to check it for vibration. So I started the fan and just as it got near full speed the 11KV tripped ? ? ? Checked the liquid starter and the electrolyte was as weak a p**s, now I am confused. Water can evaporate but not the caustic soda that’s dissolved in it. Called the boss and he makes the decision to change the electrolyte, great idea we’d got enough distilled water but needed 147lb of soda. We all split up to raid all the supermarkets in the area I went to Asda and cleared the shelf, apparently the manager had phoned another store to be told we’ve just had a guy in that’s wiped us out as well. The boss arrives at Sainsburys and clears the shelf, while waiting at the check out he’s invited in to the office by the police. They think they’ve found a bomb making ring.

Back to the starter, I decided increase the electrolyte strength a bit to improve the starting curve, this is where my problems started. First start, perfect. The following weekend the duty engineer complained he’d had to change a lot of brushes. Came Saturdays test run and the brush gear exploded, bits were found over 100M away. Now I’m getting it in the neck. Over the next 3 months it blew up another 6 times, me getting the earache every time. In the mean time I introduced new cleaning methods and test regime for the brush gear which stopped the explosions. But we still hadn’t got to the bottom of it. It was a chance conversation with an engineer from another company that solved it. He told me the company that made the brushes had moved factories and had had trouble with the composition of brushes afterwards. We had a new batch made, changed all the brushes, threw away all old stores stock. No problems after that except I was still getting blamed for it.
 
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Got blamed for leaving dirty foot prints all over a customer's bed. I pointed out that I'm a size 10, and was wearing (as usual) dewalt apprentice boots - these so-called foot prints on her duvet cover were half the size and obviously from a pair of trainers, as in one of the prints you could clearly see the letters adida........
 
I once went to a new clients property. And while discussing the works to be done, asked to see the previous periodic inspection report. The client franticly searched but could not find it. Then accused me of stealing it. He couldn’t comprehend the gravity of his physics defying imagination. It didn’t help that the apprentice and me were rolling around the floor in stitches.
 
once kicked the gauge off one of the nuclear systems in a rage and then got blamed for all other unaccounted for damage caused by every thing and any thing including a bunk light been broken!!
 
Did a big AV setup in a local sports bar, very complicated 8 screens 6 sat boxes, DVD players, karaoke, list goes, all run through digital matrix unit. Got a call from the owner telling me it was crap, it was so complicated he couldnt even get the TV's to switch on (staff had managed fine for the last 2 weeks) anyway got there he instantly grabs remote and starts pointing it at the three main tv's whilst shouting abuse. He must have felt crap when i turned him round and showed him the DVD drawer going in and out....................wrong remote what a plonker.
 
I installed a new shower for an old dear who called me back a few days later to tell me that there was not enough electricity getting into her flat any more because her kettle was taking longer than usual to boil , and it was ok before I touched it !
 
I installed a new shower for an old dear who called me back a few days later to tell me that there was not enough electricity getting into her flat any more because her kettle was taking longer than usual to boil , and it was ok before I touched it !
must be the new shower stealing all the electrons
 

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