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all this sanitizing, wiping work surfaces with the "kills 99.9% of all known germs" fad is the problem. reducing exposure to all these viruses/bacteria etc. prevents our immune systems from reacting when needed. just look at China where corona virus started. all then Chinese walking round in masks. soon as the take the mask off, bodies can't cope.
 
all this sanitizing, wiping work surfaces with the "kills 99.9% of all known germs" fad is the problem. reducing exposure to all these viruses/bacteria etc. prevents our immune systems from reacting when needed. just look at China where corona virus started. all then Chinese walking round in masks. soon as the take the mask off, bodies can't cope.

I agree with the general principle and its true that over cleaning is causing a reduction in immunity.
However in the case of the current coronavirus it makes no difference, the virus has transferred from animals and as a result humans have no immunity or antibodies to fight it, so our immune systems are starting from scratch.
 
all this sanitizing, wiping work surfaces with the "kills 99.9% of all known germs" fad is the problem. reducing exposure to all these viruses/bacteria etc. prevents our immune systems from reacting when needed. just look at China where corona virus started. all then Chinese walking round in masks. soon as the take the mask off, bodies can't cope.
I read the other day about the increase in food allergies amongst youngsters. Apparently, they know that food allergies go hand in hand with exanthema... and exanthema is often caused by babies being washed far too often !!

When we were kids, we had one bath a week... on a Sunday night before the start of a new week at school. Just washes in front of the washbasin kept us going. These days everyone MUST have a shower at least every day !
 
Hi I was hoping somebody could list a standard electricians tool kit content so that I can see if I am missing any essential kit, also please list anything that wouldn’t be considered essential but will be very useful really appreciate any replies thank you
I have a stanley toolbag like this. It is about 1 year old now and it has had a lot of use. The handles are starting to wear but it's still going strong.
I would recommend this bag for starters as it has loads of pockets which makes it easy to organise screwdrivers, pliers etc... Let me tell you there is nothing more time wasting than fishing around in the bottom of a toolbox/bag looking for your smallest screwdriver. and also it doesnt do some tools any good battling with club hammers and pry bars :)
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I got a set of wera vde screwdrivers - in my eyes they are some of the best. they are quite pricey though. a set that is good value for money would be some like wiha. i had a set of them at one stage and they are pretty good.
I have another toolbox with basic hand tools in it - some cheap wood chisels that can take some abuse, club hammer, pry bar, uninsulated screwdrivers, cold chisels, etc. and you want two levels - a boat level for levelling sockets etc and a 600m one for leveling bigger items like 3ph db's and metal trunking. i have the stanley fatmax range
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With this tool storage arrangement u can keep the more decent tools seperate from the more brutish hand tools :)
i have got some pics of my tools somewhere - will try and dig them out.

as to power tools - personally i am a big milwaukee fan. but they are expensive - for starters i would get a makita kit with cordless and impact, hammer drill and torch...a common 4pc set they do. but buy the power tool brand that you want to always work with - because even if you want to upgrade a tool you can still keep the batteries.

and one last thing: a quality tool is an investment
 
Hello again
here is a pic of what i think my toolkit looked like not long after i started out.
I used to work with under a mate of mine so some tools i borrowed of him to start with.
These tools are mainly for domestic work...
i had other tools too that didn't go in the box or bag...like hammer drill, super rod cable rods, etc.
feel free to ask me why i have any of those tools and what i use them for.
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The reason is... that feet and inches are very nice sizes to use... far more practical on a day to day basis. I love working in them... but will also use metric where I need to.
Ditto. 12 is a very useful number - divisible easily by 2,3,4, or 6. 10 is only really divisible by 2 or 5 without going to fractions. Also, when you do end up going to fractions, with inches we tend to use 1/2, 1/4, etc, while with decimal we tend to use .5, .25 which is not as easy to mental arithmetic with.
What I find really really annoying is when something that is clearly made in feet and inches has to be converted (due to EU rules) into metric to sell it. e.g. Most sheet materials sold as 2400mm x 1200mm are actually 8'x4' if you measure 'em.
It's worse than that. There is sheet material sold in both 2400x1200 (metric) and 2440x1220 (metric 8'x4'). The difference is not always made clear on the websites. Get 2440x1220 sheets and you quickly run into trouble if you've got 400 or 600mm spaced timbers rather than 16 or 24" o_O
And a decent rule for tools...if you borrow it once ok, borrow it twice or more you should have it in your kit
And watch out for the "borrow it once, give it back, borrow it twice, it's mine" 'friends' :rage: A while ago a colleague asked my how come I have all these shiny tools (while I worked in IT, I had all sorts of tools for seemingly any job) - to which the answer was "I bought them, I look after them, and I don't allow anyone to just help themselves to them". I once cought someone borrowing one of my insulated screwdrivers, when queried, he was going to use it as a pry bar - he was lucky not to find me testing it for fit in one of his bodily orifices, but then I wouldn't want to get it dirty :mask:
I don't even know what a "1 Pair foot prints (225m)" is!
What rock have you been living under ;) Apart from the regular uses, dad made an oil filter attachment - a bit of old bike chain with a metal tab on it. Replace the moving part with the bike chain, and you have an oil filter strap with remarkable gripping ability (and filter crushing ability if it's really stuck tight).
I have a stanley toolbag like this.
I have a rather old red plastic tool box made by Contico, and it holds an amazing amount of stuff due to having TWO trays in it with lots of compartments. Due to it's age (and it starting to show it), plus constantly finding another cranny to add a tool to, a while ago I set out to find a replacement - and I have to say that it was "depressing" to see how badly served we are with sensible tool boxes. Nearly all offer just one tray, and a huge space into which you are supposed to just "dump" a pile of different stuff - meaning that it's hard to find and/or gets damaged. I eventually found a suitable one, but haven't got round to sorting through all my tools and re-locating them. One "excuse" for putting this off is that I need to carefully remove one divider in a tray to take my multimeter.
and one last thing: a quality tool is an investment
Yes, this cannot be stressed too much. Not only does "buy cheap, buy often" apply, but cheap tools (especially things like poor quality screwdrivers) can damage what you're working on to the point where proper tools will no longer fit. At my last job, a common issue would be someone taking a laptop apart with a poorly fitting screwdriver - then come to me for help after they've well and truly chewed up the screw head beyond any further use.
 
I have day to day tools in a Stanley tote - basically hand tools pliers, screwdrivers etc
Then have dewalt tstak toolboxes that link - one has power tools in - sds, drill driver, impact driver, multi tool and torches and drill bits
Another has the angle grinder in and other house bashing stuff mainly for first fixing with lump hammers, scutch chisel, crowbars, chisels etc...
Have one with holesaws, come drills, varyingg drill bits. Arbours and dust shrouds.
Got shallow tstak with conduit tools in.
I have another small shallow tstak for data cabling, aerials and similar stuff.
Have other tstak boxes for different jobs such as EV installs with EV testing kit, EV charge leads for testing and spares for the chargers I service when subbing.
I like the tstak stuff as it links together, is modular and easy to transport around on a trolley, leaving what I don't need at home and not taking it on the van.
 
Hmmm, looks nice - and I guess as that sort of stuff goes (especially branded like DeWalt) not that expensive.
 
I have day to day tools in a Stanley tote - basically hand tools pliers, screwdrivers etc
Then have dewalt tstak toolboxes that link - one has power tools in - sds, drill driver, impact driver, multi tool and torches and drill bits
Another has the angle grinder in and other house bashing stuff mainly for first fixing with lump hammers, scutch chisel, crowbars, chisels etc...
Have one with holesaws, come drills, varyingg drill bits. Arbours and dust shrouds.
Got shallow tstak with conduit tools in.
I have another small shallow tstak for data cabling, aerials and similar stuff.
Have other tstak boxes for different jobs such as EV installs with EV testing kit, EV charge leads for testing and spares for the chargers I service when subbing.
I like the tstak stuff as it links together, is modular and easy to transport around on a trolley, leaving what I don't need at home and not taking it on the van.
A good post. I agree - modular storage is great. I now have the Milwaukee packout and proving the luxury of an easy to maneuver stack of tool boxes on wheels :) great for commercial work especially, where you are moving around a lot within one building.
 

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