What Job Haven't You Done ......

[GMES]

So has Electricians is there any electrical job that you haven't been able to do during your careers that you would love to have a go at.
I think Iwould like to have a crack at something like a castle or possibly a large theatre.

What about everyone else........

 

[Lucien Nunes]

Like Ruston, my only regret is not having a time machine to go back to the pioneering era of electrical crafts when men were real men, dynamos were real dynamos and distribution board neutral bar screws were real distribution board neutral bar screws. I've done all the modern equivalents but not quite the way I would like to have done them - wired stages but not with salt-water dimmers, wired churches but not with PILC cable, fitted up generators but not steam-driven DC ones. etc.

In reality things would not be quite as easy as simply winding back the clock. I enjoy having a hand in all aspects of electrickery from design to bending conduit, the first to earn my keep and the second to keep in practice. Back then, there would not have been the choice, as the men in the drawing office didn't get their hands dirty and the sparks weren't allowed in the drawing office. I would miss that and probably have to keep jumping back into the time machine to switch roles.

 

[Pete999]

Would love work in Buck Palace, or one of the Royal Residences just to see how they really live, got a vague idea but it would be interesting.

 

[LankyWill]

Love to work in lighting maintenance in the Victoria's Secret shoot room. Or maybe something in R&D on a military base.

 

[Knobhead]

Like others I’d like a time machine to go back and photograph all the open slate and OCB boards I consigned to the skip. Metropolitan Vickers, Reyrolle, Brookhurst, British Thompson Huston, all in the skip.


Now I’m interested in old distribution systems I think of myself as a vandal. But it was my job and I had to do it, either that of we would have been shut down by the M&Q inspectorate. It was dangerous stuff and you really had to know what you were doing otherwise you would be leaving in a wooden box.


The only picture I have is this, the back of a Brookhurst panel

 

[Dan]

Love to work in lighting maintenance in the Victoria's Secret shoot room. Or maybe something in R&D on a military base.

I don't think you'd find R&D on a military base kind of scenario. I have a friend who works at BAE Systems in stoke and he works with CAD designing weaponry and various parts and systems for drones or planes etc

I think by the time it's near a military base it has been commissioned for use and isn't in R&D.

He's not meant to talk about it but after a couple of sherbets he does. There's an island they test their bombing and stuff on just off some coast somewhere (I forget where) and he goes down wiry tracking stuff to check accuracy and impact quality or whatever.

He tests pistols and things quite a bit too but always in ranges.