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[TannedITGeek]

I absolutely hate lath & plaster.

Nothing to do with my parents house, my flat, and my sister's house all having the damn stuff and needing odd jobs done over the past few decades

Yes, my house is still full of Lath and Plaster. Bloody awful stuff. One day I will smash it all out..!

 

[brianmoooore]

One day I will smash it all out..!

I spent a few weeks of the recent 'lock downs' doing just that. Ceilings, walls, the lot. Not a bit left.

 

[mainline]

Think I found out why your immersion heater isn't working.

 

[Raptor0014]

Call out today as the RCD had tripped and wouldn't stay on. Narrowed it down to a circuit supplying a garden pond pump & shed. Traced the circuit and found this switch with a rather wet wall behind. Wish I had recorded the amount of water that came out when I undid the first screw.

Isolated the switch for now and drilled 2 x 4mm holes in the bottom to stop it filling up again and tripping the RCD. Will be back to put it all into a weather proof enclosure and route the cabling better to stop water tracking into it.

 

[mainline]

Looked like a decent job, apart from the fact it didn't last as long as the label ( ° ͜ʖ͡°) .

 

[Raptor0014]

To be honest it was a decent job. It’s the wall has started to allow water ingress (it’s in a garage) and it’s tracked down the cable and through the screws.

They’ve got bigger issues to sort now to stop the water seeping through.

 

[timhoward]

The point a 30% EICR turns into check absolutely everything....

 

[Simon47]

But we all know that thin foil is a very good fuse ... just not too good at specifying the rating.

 

[brianmoooore]

But we all know that thin foil is a very good fuse ... just not too good at specifying the rating.

Worked in the (13A) plug on my 180A oil filled arc welder for 30 years without any problems.

 

[SparkySy]

Worked in the (13A) plug on my 180A oil filled arc welder for 30 years without any problems.

Still not as high a capacity as the 6mm bolt in the plug on a farm I found recently!

 

[brianmoooore]

Still not as high a capacity as the 6mm bolt in the plug on a farm I found recently!

Now that is silly and dangerous. All that was required was a sufficiently high rating to cope with the spiky 25A odd maximum welding current and the Lord knows what inrush that temporarily extinguished every fluorescent lamp on the place.

 

[SparkySy]

I totally agree highly dangerous, it was on a home made extension lead with a 32a socket on the end for 'Welding round the farm' it had packed up with a large pop apparently and took out the sockets mcb.
I told them it had its last welder plugged in and was only good for the scrap bin!

 

[mainline]

But we all know that thin foil is a very good fuse ... just not too good at specifying the rating.

Wrapping tin foil around a fuse is totally wrong.
A suitably sized brass bolt is far better.

 

[ipf]

But we all know that thin foil is a very good fuse ... just not too good at specifying the rating.

If you wrap the tin foil round twice it'll double the BU rating though.....won't it?

(Burn Up rating)

 

[Simon47]

Worked in the (13A) plug on my 180A oil filled arc welder for 30 years without any problems.

Is there a farm that didn't have one of those (Pickhill Bantam is one name I remember) ?
At one of the farms I worked at in my youth, they had need to run one some distance from a socket - so extension lead, and obligatory 1/4" bolts to replace the annoying fuses that would otherwise blow. I wasn't there to see it happen, but I saw it afterwards ...
Fairly decent quality 13A rubber trailing socket and plug - both opened up like a peeled back banana with blobs of brass on the ends of the wires. Of course, this was long before we all carried mobile phones with cameras on them.

 

[brianmoooore]

Is there a farm that didn't have one of those (Pickhill Bantam is one name I remember) ?

Pickhill Bantam was the blue one, and the other was Oxford, in a tasteful shade of light green metallic.
Mine's now in semi retirement, having been replaced for most things by a Mig, but still comes out occasionally when there's heavy stuff to be welded. Fitted with a blue 32A plug now though, and doesn't trip out a 30mA RCD.

 

[Simon47]

Ah yes, the Oxford.
Weren't some of these oil filled units "a bit dodgy" in that if you mishandled them (no, that would never happen on a farm !) the windings could distort and make the casing(?) or secondary live ?

 

[brianmoooore]

Ah yes, the Oxford.
Weren't some of these oil filled units "a bit dodgy" in that if you mishandled them (no, that would never happen on a farm !) the windings could distort and make the casing(?) or secondary live ?

Can't remember the details, but mine shorted live to case once. Several bolts around the top to undo, then I lifted the innards out of the oil with an engine crane. Whatever was wrong was obvious, easily sorted and hasn't happened again.

 

[mainline]

Oxford 250 mig welder, the best welder I've ever had, sorry I sold it.

 

[DPG]

Oxford 250 mig welder, the best welder I've ever had, sorry I sold it.

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