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    Making a temporary power supply

    In the olden days when I was self employed as opposed to being a pretend self employed cis4 agency worker, you needed this type of board on many small jobs. Remember we must protect the other people on site who may use power. Scottish power would not allow a temp conection to be connected to...
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    415/240 transformer should you earth one leg to make a new neutral ?

    Hi All, Im more of an installation man but do sometimes have to build or mod small control panels. My brain and memory states that only a true neutral comes from the star point at the supply transformer provided it is connected to earth. I often find transformers in 3 phase (no neutral) mcc...
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    Training/Learning Area

    Good idea, We could perhaps have a teach the Trainees section where we electricians can pretend we know it all, point the people in the right direction and keep ourselves up to date at the same time. It would be a bit like when I was an apprentice and kept the old boys up to date and they...
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    The Wife

    Well yi might jist wake up wi nay hadle on the vice and the garage own fire wi a hacksaw in reach!
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    Sat fool deals WARNING

    Was your purchase more than £500. If one of the scammers buys your car on ebay pays with paypal then claims it is fualty they get a refund. you are left with no car and your paypal account refunds there money. You should have the same rights. Speak to c a and trading standerds they will help...
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    How do we make this job pay?

    You can never compete with Jimmy up the road doing it for a fiver or 20 smokes and a beer. All you can do is give a price that will cover your time mark up your materials in a fair maner and tell the costomer to make sure that whoever does the work has public liability insurance, just incase the...
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    Won't sleep tonight

    To all the kitchen fitters good diyers and general handy people who read posts on this site to gain experiance. If it is behond your experiance and abilities can you please get an electrician to do the work. There are plenty of self employed sparks in your area you can get in touch with on this...
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    Got any funny 'Tools being nicked' stories?

    Not quite on the same subject but amusing. Recently worked in pown shop cashachequie type of shop. (this is on u tube) Unhappy costomer starts to kick off big style. Mad person grabs chair and hits safety glass, service person having been reasured by manufacturer that it can withstand shotgun...
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    Got any funny 'Tools being nicked' stories?

    Also heard the alarm man at the bank with a flight case style tool box. As he leaves the secure area behind the counter he is called back to sign his forms leaves toolbox and closes door scumbag legs it with his tools thinking its a case of cash.
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    Got any funny 'Tools being nicked' stories?

    Heard this first hand from people who were there so it must be true. Milton k wwtw lights went out and pump stopped they went to check genny. two guys in high vis with tranny pickup and trailer say bowser is brocken need to take all plant to compound to fill with deisel. Its ok thats our geny...
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    Won't sleep tonight

    Report this to trading standerds and get the local paper to get involved.This is not the first time things like this have happened. In my opinion it is better to sit in the dark than risk being burned in a fire. This gets my goat up it is easier to do a job right and then sleep at night. I used...
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    Perodic codes for out of date smoke dectectors

    Try reposting in the testing and inspection section the boys in there are good at this thing. I would mark it as requires improvement as it doesnt impact on the electrical safety only life protecting safety. You cant put a price on life show your client some u tube vids of fires and I am sure...
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    Falling Satellite

    Can anybody hack NASA coms and guide it to BBES headquarters ?.
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    wiring a 3 phase plug - strange wire colours?

    Open the machine and look inside. You sometimes get a diagram inside. What type of machine is it ?. try googling the manufacturer. I have come across three phase coffee machines from the continant that need converting to single phase two cores for line two cores for n one core for earth...
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    Newbie

    Hi there if you google, "worker catches on fire". it will lead to a construction magazine report about an accident. Are you sure you want to do electrical work when you are not a qualified electrician. This will become more common if the deskilling of our industry is allowed to happen...
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