Why part P is here.

[GiZmorob]

I turned up to this job just before Xmas.
I was called out to help this lady who had tried to unscrew a G9 bulb and broke it off in the fitting.
While working on the fitting at the bottom of this image I noticed the cpc sticking out of a junction box so had a look and this is what I found.



To top it off while packing some tools away in the hall I see a socket with writing on "NO EARTH TAKE CARE".

Isolated these parts until I can get back but brings into question all the circuits. Would of been a call-out but now its I got to go back and put it all right.

What do you guys think??????

 

[GLENNSPARK]

local councils should confine their activities to what they are competent at..... emptying bins and repairing the roads. once they get involved with things like electrical work, they convene endless meetings, produce countless 1000 page reports, blabbing on about what should be done, but end up nowhere, then up the council tax to pay for it all.

come on Tel...they cant even get that rite....

 

[pete555]

If anything it's an illustration of why part P isn't working. The customer called you in to get a light bulb out because she couldn't do it herself. If part P and it's associated costs weren't here and the difference between getting a proper electrician in and Dave from down the pub, the job would be more likely to get done properly in the first place.

shocking display of electrical terms how long have we been planting light bulbs (correct termonology please) originator needs advising

 

[Des 56]

light bulbn(Engineering / Electrical Engineering) a glass bulb containing a gas, such as argon or nitrogen, at low pressure and enclosing a thin metal filament that emits light when an electric current is passed through it Sometimes shortened to bulb

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003

 

[Robert Turnbull]

local councils should confine their activities to what they are competent at..... emptying bins and repairing the roads. once they get involved with things like electrical work, they convene endless meetings, produce countless 1000 page reports, blabbing on about what should be done, but end up nowhere, then up the council tax to pay for it all.

The one week of the year when I needed my bin emptying they failed on that!

My garden and the rest of the village looks like a recycling centre

 

[Engineer54]

As far as i know, the local councils don't empty bins anymore, that was pushed over to private enterprise companies long ago!! Now your lucky if your bins are emptied once every fortnight!!

Here it's every other day, in Cyprus twice a week in the villages and 3 times a week in the towns!!
Both at considerably lower costs to the silly money your coughing up!! lol!!

 

[pete555]

light bulbn(Engineering / Electrical Engineering) a glass bulb containing a gas, such as argon or nitrogen, at low pressure and enclosing a thin metal filament that emits light when an electric current is passed through it Sometimes shortened to bulb

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003

electrician taught correctly old fashioned way it,s a LAMP ist edition regs read them

 

[telectrix]

florence nightingale had a LAMP. it had a candle inside it. and my grandfather's uncle was a LAMPLIGHTER, for gas LAMPS.

 

[Des 56]

electrician taught correctly old fashioned way it,s a LAMP ist edition regs read them

I like to think I was also taught correctly and old fashioned
In the pit,the apprentice could be sent to assist the "lampman" or even do work in the lamp room,when he was there he was sometimes expected to change "light bulbs"

Terminology is what is used and understood by others,it's not a sacred word that must be adhered to at all costs

You know what was meant,I know what was meant,your admonishment of the post was knit picking

Oh and by the way (at least in parts of Wales) at the turn of the century.another term for a lamp was a "Globe"

 

[telectrix]

Oh and by the way (at least in parts of Wales) at the turn of the century.another term for a lamp was a "Globe"


didn't think you were that old des. LOL.:thinking2:

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[GLENNSPARK]

The one week of the year when I needed my bin emptying they failed on that!

My garden and the rest of the village looks like a recycling centre

well you dug a great big hole for yourself in another thread in here Rob.....:joker:
you could have used that to empty the bin into...:50:

 

[Des 56]

Oh and by the way (at least in parts of Wales) at the turn of the century.another term for a lamp was a "Globe"


didn't think you were that old des. LOL.:thinking2:

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Tel if I was to make that claim,its reassuring to know that I would have you to confirm or reject it

 

[Stroppy]

I prefer to call them "lamp bulbs" to annoy all parties

 

[trev]

electrician taught correctly old fashioned way it,s a LAMP ist edition regs read them

OOOOOO that's fighting talk where I come from.

 

[Stroppy]

I think we've moved on from the 1st edition regs, haven't we? Just get used to the fact that the things are called light bulbs!

 

[trev]

I think we've moved on from the 1st edition regs, haven't we? Just get used to the fact that the things are called light bulbs!

NEVER!!!!!!
Who is with me?