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

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Darkwood

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.

Beware plumbers!!!.jpg

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

Beware plumbers!!!.jpg
 
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freddo said:
I've also just started with TIG, It's probably one of the most difficult skills I've ever tried to acquire, very steep learning curve.
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My biggest issue at the moment is, I think, the incredibly low cost 'Chinese Export' machine the boss bought and I have been playing with.

On the plus side it has a plasma cutter which is great fun, definately the fastest way to convert big useful bits of metal into little bits of scrap whilst also setting fire to the workshop!
 
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Do you mean TIG or MIG ? They are different and MIG is more common.
Remind me of an old Range Rover I bought for parts. It had an LPG conversion with a tank in the back. Whoever fitted it did neat little lengths of weld all around the tank cradle, really neat welding. But ... only one weld was to steel as most of the floor is aluminium ! The weight of the tank kept it in place so all the welds looked OK at first glance.
 
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Yes Mig is most common just like arc or mma. Once you have it set though you just point and shoot, it has an auto feed spool of wire in the machine that is the filler. I've never tried tig so far I keep meaning to get some gas and leads for my thermal arc 185 and have a go. I've heard it's an art form! Good luck you guys who are trying to master the art!!
 
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I know loads of people with MIG machines - which is really the same as stick welding but with autofeed and a gas shield*. I only know one person with a TIG machine.

I have to say I fancy a go at TIG - I've seen it done a couple of times. For one thing, separates the arc from the filler feed which is a problem I seem to have with MIG. My welding is often not much better that the example a few posts back - and I usually end up adding too much material by the time I've put enough heat into a job :oops:

* You can use cored wire for gas-less work. Then it's very much like stick welding with a solid flux that creates the gas shield and/or a liquid barrier when subjected to the heat of the weld. For some reason the polarity needs changing between normal (gas shield) MIG and gasless (cored wire) welding. Some MIG machines, including mine, have the connections arranged so you can swap the earth and snake connections round.
 
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yeah, but what's the problem.you can see it working, and it is, of course, on a cure all RCD. we hope. anyway, anyone who needs to use hot water to wash hands is a wimp. also. thatpointing is diabollockal. looks like it's been tthown in from next door.
 
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Choice of cable and landing is far from perfect too.
glanding
 
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To be honest.... thats a tiny nest.... or bink
A week or two later after being stung, I poked my head up into a loft with my little torch.... turned around on the ladder.....

nest about 3 foot wide and 2 foot high.... hanging off the beams...

thankfully dead, and had been for some years.
 
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littlespark said:
You know it’s going to be a good job when one of these is lieing about.....

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and a sample of the important chapter.... which surprisingly comes BEFORE the First Aid for Electric Shock.... “sorry, haven’t got to that page yet”

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Love the tester!

We can all send our proper voltage testers back, and use the neon in a screwdriver - its in the diy manual so its right.
 
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freddo said:
Should have used a metalclad switch!
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Don’t think that would’ve saved it the whole building was leaning ?, in his defence I did tell the customer it was him cutting that that caused it....it didn’t help that they’d basically balanced the building like a seesaw and then loaded all the furniture one end! ?
 
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I was there replacing that over painted switch with a plain plastic white one.

The book was printed in 1986. It describes lighting circuits as either joint box, or loop in method. No mention of neutrals at switches. Just wasn't done back in the days of the 15th
or was it 14th??

Still couldn't have a spur from a spur though.. ;)
 
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littlespark said:
I was there replacing that over painted switch with a plain plastic white one.

The book was printed in 1986. It describes lighting circuits as either joint box, or loop in method. No mention of neutrals at switches. Just wasn't done back in the days of the 15th
or was it 14th??

Still couldn't have a spur from a spur though.. ;)
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15th

It was published in 1981, but was a big change from the 14th and had a lot of resistance in acceptance, so ended up with a long transition period
 
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