Dodgy trade pictures for your amusement! - 1 Million Views!

[Leesparkykent]

Today's findings. Located on top of a tool store in large workshop.

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haha quality!

 

[SIIVION]

from a few months ago...

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This has been like this for over 1 year. The blacks are neutrals, running around the cable tray for about 25 metres

Supplied from....

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[NDG Elecs]

RCD Tripping.

A leak to corpse.
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Worked fine until the CU upgrade.
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Now if that was an insulated CU the mouse might still be eating crumbs. Obviously the IP rating wasn't up to much!

 

[17edSparkyJoe]

View attachment 29021Responded to a call out to replace the usual broken pendant and glossed over light switch at a tenants property. Went to knock power off to find the main RCCB switch was already in the "off" position. That's odd I thought. Anyway on removal of the lid I was confronted with this delight!
Spoke to the tenant to find out if anyone had been tinkering. Apparently a few "months" earlier they had contacted the out of hours emergency electricians to restore their power. This crew were from the main contractor that service all the council properties in the city. To bypass a main switch is one thing but to connect the mains directly to an out going shower circuit is quite another. No one was scheduled to come back and rectify it either, as far as I was aware.

Haha that's one way to solve nuisance tripping!

 

[Resu]

"Our boiler has stopped working"

 

[cprfenom]

"Our boiler has stopped working"

That must of stunk for a while too! And I'm not talking about the bin

 

[Darkwood]

Well that's an obvious one cos the end of the cable is connected to anything...!

 

[Resu]

Well that's an obvious one cos the end of the cable is connected to anything...!

Ha, I knew there would be one!

 

[Resu]

Just remembered about another pic I have. Completely different property, similar incident...

 

[Resu]

Should explain. First pic, cutting of cable, was within a commercial boiler. Heating loop had burst and boiler had run dry and boiled it's nuts off, the stat and thermal cut out had both been messed about with by a previous hero and is why we think they never cut off before the damage was done. Actually surprised the cable got to the point it did before the fuse blew! This incident also killed two pumps.

Second one was loop burst again and pump ran dry and caught fire. Luckily RCD tripped and fire was contained within the boiler.

 

[sparkzalot]

My husbands also an electrician and hes installed a few lights in the bathroom...

 

[Approved spark]

student let kitchen

 

[Kamikaze]

And you thought some electricians are dippy!

 

[uksparks]

This is a socket, obviously, it was down the side of a fridge, basically the house movers had forced a fridge in a hole far too small and dented the side of the fridge, and the force had broken the socket because the inner but as you can see had been pushed in, it then went bang because the earth tag cut into the live wire behind!

 

[camerabloke]

Quality data monkeys on a site I'm fitting cctv at

 

[camerabloke]

Yes that is metal trunking as well

 

[MarkyofftheMark]

That's the winner!!

 

[banny07]

o my god

 

[Kamikaze]

To be fair, Davis skirting trunking always used to be a pain in the @rse, especially where a partition wall had gone up and the lid could no longer be removed. The surface mounted data point on the bottom L.H.S. of the picture must be an afterthought because outlets used to be mounted on plates which were held on by brackets either side of the plate. Having said that, whoever made that hole in the lid couldn’t have been the brightest kid on the block.:13:

 

[ddelectrical]

I am sure something will happen to their nuts!