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Right ... Just been nudged to set this up by Paul.M and sounds a good idea following recent threads I've done in the Arms..

Rules....No Offensive material... edit if required before posting as this is the public arena.
Anything to do with the trade or in and around it ...H&S pic's welcome.

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I've posted this a few times and this is at a mates house following a kitchen refirb several yrs ago. :eek:mg_smile:

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telectrix said:
i'd bet on poor contact of plug fuse .
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Almost certainly , intermittent arcing when switched on
littlespark said:
yes, thats pretty standard when it comes to old wiring.

Did you get it tidied up? Bit of sleeving? Job's a good 'un
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Nearltly all old stranded house wiring I come across has had the sh!t twisted out of it ...
 
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Yeah I use the 221 5 ways, you have to use the lever instead of forcing it in with stranded. I cut it back and it was twisted neatly when I stripped it. The conductors weren't long enough unfortunately so needed extending. Technically it was two spurs from one point I suppose and I could of used lots of two way ones.
 
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You should always use the lever with a Wago that has that facility, the days of forcing in a cable are a while ago and the old type of Wago, in fact I don't think they make them anymore, certainly I can't find them on their web site, but TLC still have them, in preference I would always use the lever type.
 
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Mike Johnson said:
You should always use the lever with a Wago that has that facility, the days of forcing in a cable are a while ago and the old type of Wago, in fact I don't think they make them anymore, certainly I can't find them on their web site, but TLC still have them, in preference I would always use the lever type.
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You still get the push fit style Wagos, they have a couple ranges of them at least - the 2273 are newer and smaller, and there still is the 773 series
 
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So they over clad the original ceiling by the looks , I often find those big transfomers feeding a bunch of 12v spot lights wired like that using twin flex and connector block

The issue is often getting to the transformer which is often inaccessible without mashing a hole somehwere
 
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Dustydazzler said:
So they over clad the original ceiling by the looks , I often find those big transfomers feeding a bunch of 12v spot lights wired like that using twin flex and connector block

The issue is often getting to the transformer which is often inaccessible without mashing a hole somehwere
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It’s a good job I’m only 6ft and 15st. Otherwise it would have been a really really tight squeeze to sort it. Instead of just the really tight squeeze it was! 🙄

But I did just about did it, without cutting the ceiling. 😇 Now I just need to clip the cables with some fire clips as best I can and wire in the new downlights.

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