Recent content by Tuxornot

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    UK CU Change help

    I can borrow an mft if I ask nicely and offer more than its worth in beer, the problem is giving it back, it will have to be prised by my cold dead hands first, buying a new one with a cal cert isnt really an option, it wont pay for its self, unless screwfarce will loan one for day...... ahem...
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    UK CU Change help

    I'll just leave here, it may help shine a light on my attitude on this matter. Years ago I asked by a friend to look at his CU with a view to swapping it for a larger one or piggy back a smaller on for a garage. I refused, I hadn't done much in the way domestic switch gear and was'nt a scam...
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    UK CU Change help

    An update, given up on the idea after being pi**ed about, either no one wants it for whatever reason or its yeehaa types, I refuse to do it, no access to an mft, had one, got nicked, no need to get one for one job and certs not up to date for testing so sod it.
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    Day 14 Advent Calendar

    Probably around 2006, the same time I had plans to create an electricians forum, alas it was not to be, so excited was I to register a website I misspelt the address, never got much traffic to erections.com.
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    Well, that was a fun day.

    Ah dust and air, the new improved bakalite invisable insulator ! Its just joe pubic... errr I mean public that doesn't have a clue, some trades don't either, earlier on today I heard for the second time in a few days of cabinet fitters hitting cables and capping the screws off with those...
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    Stripping Wires With Side Cutters

    My old place was fitted out with snap on kit, a socket split once, they replaced the entire lot, it was years old, a tad expensive on shirts tho, I always drooled on mine, usualy at lunch time for some reason.
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    Stripping Wires With Side Cutters

    No. Snap On sell metal things, Ann Summers sell rubbery things.... according to my mate...
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    Stripping Wires With Side Cutters

    Snap On are worse than sky cold callers or those twits that mug you in supermarkets, I can deal with them easily but Snap On I had to muster all my will power and say no, then slope off sulking because Mrs Tux made it clear we are not re-mortgage the house.
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    Stripping Wires With Side Cutters

    I use the ck combi cutters, got them in both sizes, wont use anything else and can just about manage the screw cutter part, I don't use the anvil as often, I use knippex pliers to fold and form the end, sometimes the with CK combi cutters you may, if working in a confined space, nick another...
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    Day 13 Advent Calendar!

    In the bleak mid winter In the bleak mid-winter Frosty customers may moan; resolution stood hard as iron, pay up or I'l hit you with a stone; Snow had fallen, snow on snow, Van stuck in the snow, In the bleak mid-winter long ago Its got to be better than the plumbers song...... 'you picked a...
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    UK CU Change help

    oh we are down here alright, at the posh end !
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    Cost of a rewire?

    Just my two bobs worth to second this, I remember my first rewire, underestimated the difficulties and made a hash of it, it was by tapping into the experience of a much more experienced guy that got me out of a mess, you cant put a value on the guidance and advice you get from another...
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    UK CU Change help

    We don't nick stuff up here, we just keep the place tidy by removing surplus 'waste' saves the NHS a fortune by preventing unfortunate accidents caused by people tripping over pallets and the occasional discarded truck.
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    A good make of PIR.

    Gawd, the newer version they flog are really poor, I replaced two of the much older ones a few months ago with these infernal water buckets, a week or two of rain put paid to both, the feeble plastic cement around the window leaks and the pcb conformal coating may as well not be there. Luckily...
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    Day 12 Advent Calendar!

    Turn the map around, its at the other end, near the pointy bit near the edge of the map.

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