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[Dustydazzler]

It’s fairly easy to burn pvc cable if you pull another cable against it Too hard...
I wouldnt be happy with the burned Cable...but unfortunately It’s fairly typical to see This sort of thing

 

[DPG]

It’s fairly easy to burn pvc cable if you pull another cable against it Too hard...
I wouldnt be happy with the burned Cable...but unfortunately It’s fairly typical to see This sort of thing

Anyone who treats coax cable like that would not be fitting an aerial for me. I hate to think what his terminations are like.

 

[ChrisElectrical88]

Had to cut it either side of the joist, MF Wagobox it and put a new piece in. Pulled his cable right out the length aswell, can’t have been that hard to blast some more 10mm holes through the joists for his cable

 

[SparkySy]

Can you pop round I have a problem, thought my Plumber could sort it out but he couldn't so advised ring an electrician!

Mmm that's gone bang more than once then!!

 

[Baddegg]

Can’t have been a real plumber.....a real plumber would’ve got that to work ?

 

[SparkySy]

I was using the term loosely
It was a faulty pump apparently, that he tried to fix 3 times before giving up and getting a new one! Bet he had some Brown trousers after that!!

 

[Baddegg]

Nice to know there’s still some craftsman out there......

 

[Jim_e_Jib]

Pulled his cable right out the length aswell, can’t have been that hard to blast some more 10mm holes through the joists for his cable

The woodworm have even made a start for him!

 

[Baddegg]

There’s future proofing and there’s FUTURE proofing.....

Not dodgy I know but I’m sure the spark wasn’t really considering smart switches!

 

[SparkySy]

You could almost guarantee if you needed that extra core it wouldn't of been there!

 

[DPG]

You could almost guarantee if you needed that extra core it wouldn't of been there!

I was going to like your post, but you put 'of' instead of 'have', so I didn't

 

[pirate]

I would've liked it too if it had "wouldnt've"...it shouldnt've had "of"

 

[LewisM]

So this light was held up by a specially engineered pencil for the task.

 

[R-fur]

Should have used a Biro, pencils are conductive and flammable.

 

[dodger421]

Less dodgy, more just stupidity courtesy of one of our “multi-skilled” technicians. Bear in mind the multi-skilled guy has an electrician to guide them on their shift and they supposedly checked all this together!

Yesterday a cooling fan wasn’t working, they went to it and reported back at shift change when we started that the contactor needed replacing because it wasn’t coming in. We asked if they checked the voltage at the coil “yeah, 230” was the answer.

I suspect not somehow, but at least we know why it isn’t coming in...

The machine wasn’t needed until this afternoon so we left it for them to wire up the coil this morning, and hopefully learn something in the process.

They wired the coil into a nearby transformer in the machine. We got called back just after shift change for cooling fan not working and “smell of burning”. That’ll be 230 through the 110 coil then.

In fairness the almost identical machine next to it was wired the same way, just went into a 230v coil.

 

[freddo]

Reminds me of the time I got called out because the new contactor coils weren't lasting long on a roof fan. I couldn't get the on-site maintenance bloke to understand that 240V coils don't work well when fed with 415V. 'But there's a neutral there!' he kept saying. That blue wire was of course L3.... Amazingly all 3? he tried lasted over a work day under those conditions.

 

[James]

Back when I was a rookie, I was given a 230/400v motor to fit on a machine.
It lasted almost 2 weeks before it gave up.
I had wired it in delta because my total lack of understanding led me to believe that star was only for starting a motor.

Boss was not happy but I learned a valuable lesson!

 

[freddo]

Got called out because customer couldn't reset RCD after attempting to put up shelving.

6 months earlier I was called to the same fault at the same house.

 

[Baddegg]

Got called out because customer couldn't reset RCD after attempting to put up shelving.
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6 months earlier I was called to the same fault at the same house.
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Does he own a machine gun! it looks like the walls in an old black n white gangster film ?

 

[James]

Got called out because customer couldn't reset RCD after attempting to put up shelving.
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6 months earlier I was called to the same fault at the same house.
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Scatter bombs approach,
Drill enough holes and your bound to get one eventually.
Maybe the home owner just liked your smile?