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[richy3333]

This year I saw a whole brewery wired in. Done by the owner. He asked me to sign it off for him as the insurers were asking for certification. Was very miffed when I said he'd never get me drunk enough to falsely sign a certificate! Also asked me how he could fiddle his meter!

 

[ipf]

Is that not sy oh why

May be, but can't see any sign of braiding on the photo,
It was YY in the foundry.

Looking closer, I think you're right.

 

[freddo]

I hope all that braiding was connected to earth.

 

[bill01803]

I'll be taking the lid off next week, I bet the braid isn't connected.

Just noticed the 5 pin 32A sockets haven't got RCD protection either, and there are rubber extension leads all over the floor with various steel items everywhere.

 

[MJPD29]

I'll be taking the lid off next week, I bet the braid isn't connected.

Just noticed the 5 pin 32A sockets haven't got RCD protection either, and there are rubber extension leads all over the floor with various steel items everywhere.

Braid should be earth through appropriate sy gland, not shoved into the earth bar as I see so often.

 

[mainline]

Braid should be earth through appropriate sy gland, not shoved into the earth bar as I see so often.

I think it's better unearthed along with the conductors and thrown in the bin

 

[Steve T]

IP65

 

[vjsmarwick]

A small shower install you have to live the decor!

 

[James]

only problem might be the IP rating will probably only apply if fitted to a flat surface

 

[mainline]

only problem might be the IP rating will probably only apply if fitted to a flat surface

Its a wet room

 

[ipf]

A small shower install you have to live the decor!View attachment 112064

Most ingenious.......with that cable ladder rack.

 

[mainline]

Most ingenious.......with that cable ladder rack.

Its main use is for the kids to climb to reach the shower

 

[bill01803]

And here is the inside od the Lewden SY board

 

[James]

If an artist can display a messy bedroom as art, then surely that board must be a winner!

 

[Mike Johnson]

If an artist can display a messy bedroom as art, then surely that board must be a winner!

I think Artist is a very loose description of what Tracy Emin does, beggars belief she has been appointed professor to the "Royal College of Art" ?

 

[LewisM]

Odd way of making your own PME earth

Not dodgy but does anybody know this brand and finish?

 

[James]

i think the finish is "dirty" with an overtone of cat.
how people prepare food where animals have been walking around has always baffled me.

 

[LewisM]

Yeah I've done other work there before (just got sent a picture) it's a big house but very messy

 

[SparkyChick]

@LewisM ,

I think they are LAP accessories, I've had to fit them in the past (customer supplied). They look to be a near perfect match of the current ones but having just looked, I'm not sure that finish/insert combination is still available.

Edit: If I had to have a punt on the finish name, I'd go for polished black nickel with black inserts, which I vaguely recall seeing in the catalogues a few years ago, but as I say, I've just had a look and it doesn't appear they have a suitable match currently.

 

[MJPD29]

And here is the inside od the Lewden SY board

Never seen SY with correct colours, only ever numbered black cores.

 

[nicebutdim]

Never seen SY with correct colours, only ever numbered black cores.

I guess those SY nerds have every conceivable option, along with a wide range of stuffing glands to push it through.

 

[freddo]

i think the finish is "dirty" with an overtone of cat.
how people prepare food where animals have been walking around has always baffled me.

I remember the time we replaced all the sockets above the kitchen worktops with IP rated ones as the cats kept peeing on them which tripped the RCD.

 

[davesparks]

Never seen SY with correct colours, only ever numbered black cores.

Whats not correct about numbered cores?

 

[James]

@LewisM ,

I think they are LAP accessories, I've had to fit them in the past (customer supplied). They look to be a near perfect match of the current ones but having just looked, I'm not sure that finish/insert combination is still available.

Edit: If I had to have a punt on the finish name, I'd go for polished black nickel with black inserts, which I vaguely recall seeing in the catalogues a few years ago, but as I say, I've just had a look and it doesn't appear they have a suitable match currently.

I nearly said Screwfix but wasn’t sure enough.

 

[Dustydazzler]

As SY is a signal cable / control cable numbers cores is the correct procedure

 

[ipf]

I remember the time we replaced all the sockets above the kitchen worktops with IP rated ones as the cats kept peeing on them which tripped the RCD.

Direct wet contact might make 'em jump a bit. I wonder if a 30mA device would be enough to save 'em?
I've seen and heard of a few different animals come to electrical grief in the past......but never a puddy cat.

 

[freddo]

Direct wet contact might make 'em jump a bit. I wonder if a 30mA device would be enough to save 'em?
I've seen and heard of a few different animals come to electrical grief in the past......but never a puddy cat.

I don't know but as we were leaving a cat with diarrhoea was sat on the dining table relieving its bowels onto the carpet below.

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[ipf]

I don't know but as we were leaving a cat with diarrhoea was sat on the dining table relieving its bowels onto the carpet below.

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Lovely!
Sounds like members of the England football team playing their dressing room games twenty odd years ago...

 

[Moley]

I don't know but as we were leaving a cat with diarrhoea was sat on the dining table relieving its bowels onto the carpet below.

Were you wearing your mask at the time? Perhaps you just scared the ---- out of the poor cat

 

[freddo]

Were you wearing your mask at the time? Perhaps you just scared the ---- out of the poor cat

My regular face will do that...

 

[Mike Johnson]

Don't you guys know anything, Cats have VDE feet, in days of old they where worshiped as Gods and still remember that.

 

[oscar21]

More crazy going on toady, recently we did some work in a one bedroom flat (fire damage), the damage was in the kitchen, hall and bathroom only, the bderoom and living room were fine.

The original cabling was from the 70's, we used to call it aircon cable (maybe it was used on air conditioning units), its like a thick black sleeve with singles inside it, almost like an oversized T&E cable but the idea was you could pull new wires through it at a later date, it even had a bit where you could nail through it to attach it. All these cables was buried in the solid floors and ceilings so there wasn't much you could do with it.

So the only way it could be re-wired was to batten down the ceiling and run the cables in that space which we had to do, I said look, this place needs a complete re-wire, if you batten and board the living room and bedroom I can do a complete re-wire and do away with the old wires completely but they wouldn't have it so I had to try and adapt what was there with copious amounts of wagos and boxes, didn't like doing it at all. we first fixed and left it a few weeks. When we returned today to 2nds fix what we had done this is what the living room and bedroom looked like.

Before the padsaw

After the padsaw

Mental.

 

[nicebutdim]

In use until a couple of hours ago.

 

[brianmoooore]

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In use until a couple of hours ago.

Pretty much the norm in older farm outbuildings. I could have taken hundreds of pics like this over the last few decades.

 

[nicebutdim]

Pretty much the norm in older farm outbuildings. I could have taken hundreds of pics like this over the last few decades.

That's exactly where it was. If I'd been able to post uncropped images you could have seen how everything around this was absolutely soaked from rain leaking in, yet through sheer blind luck (and certainly not design) both junction and lamp holder remained dry. Power (with not insubstantial draw) and lights running off about 80m of 2.5 T&E, with the whole lot fed from a 13A plug.

 

[richy3333]

Found in hot water tank cupboard recently. SWA is a 60m(ish) run to a second building.

 

[GBDamo]

Found in hot water tank cupboard recently. SWA is a 60m(ish) run to a second building.

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£10 for a galv box, lug and a gland.

Even ScewStation carry the parts to do this properly, no excuses.

 

[bill01803]

Cables doesn’t look very big for a 60m run!

 

[ipf]

£10 for a galv box, lug and a gland.

Even ScewStation carry the parts to do this properly, no excuses.

I think what you're indicating would be foreign news to them.

A little too much knowledge springs to mind.............again!

 

[LewisM]

No Sharpie no problem