Good Old Delroy, he gets all the best Jobs :)

[oscar21]

What needs to happen is far tougher laws and punishment for offenders. Better security, better security marking of tools and equipment.
Tools should be designed with some kind of security measures in them. Something like an easily removable, unique, 'key' that renders the tool useless when it is removed.


I find it hard to believe that this is a proven fact, can you provide proof?

Yes and they should be made to do something about it through legislation.

Then I think you need to read my post again as I have said nothing of the the sort. What I was saying is that we should not lower ourselves to the level of the criminals.
I'm saying that getting yourself convicted of assault is not going to help your cause at all and is going to harm you far more than it harms the person you attack.

That's not my ideology and I haven't said anything of the sort.

On point two, this is my local court where I have been summons on several occasions in the past on the most heinous of rimes such as 36 in a 30.

10 years ago.

5 years ago

today

Yea, they don't bother with your everyday criminal anymore.

 

[littlespark]

I don’t think a lump hammer to the hands make any difference.

I’ve smashed my thumb on a vast number of occasions with a big hammer while chasing walls… and it still works… mostly.

 

[Lister1987]

OH NO

Del had his Van broke into and they stole his Veto bag with all is tools in it and his drills and his MFT. There really are some scummy people out there to nick a tradesmans tools which he needs to make a living. Scummy thiefs

So long as he's still got that Fluke meter then he'll be reet.

 

[mainline]

So long as he's still got that Fluke meter then he'll be reet.

he should ask bundy for a hand out.

Although I’m sure there are more needy than del

 

[Diddy]

Sometimes the bad guys do get rough justice when they have been caught. I remember a fairly amusing incident. A small pub in my hometown back in Scotland. Bloody goldmine it was...like a cartoon pub where they all rushed in for opening and they drunk hard until lights out.
Anyway the pub in question was owned and run at the time by 2 boxers who had both fought and won in the Commonwealth Games...they run their pub brilliantly never giving out needless thrashings but everyone knew there really was a line and if you crossed it and ignored the repeated warnings (think yellow car leading to red card) then they would often fall over on their way out the side door.
The pub got broken into one night. The float was nicked and they bust open the fruit machine which at the time was full of 10p pieces. Owners discovered it in the morning and cleaned the place up and opened the doors. Now it may have been an unfortunate coincidence but a semi regular walked in 1st thing and proceeded to pay for his drinks using 10p pieces. 1st round, 2nd round and so on. He was a well-known petty thief and it was also observed that he had indeed been "skint" for the last few days. One of the owners asked him for a wee chat which resulted in the chap falling over quite hard when the answers given were not to the owner's satisfaction. Words like "you are actually trying to take the ----" "trying to rub our noses in it" "think we are effing stupid".
One thing is for sure. The pub never got broken into ever again...and the petty thief had wire in his jaw for a short time afterwards. He was allowed back in after about a year...so no hard feelings and not a policeman in sight nor an insurance claim ever made.
I also witnessed a chippy in London manage to go from the 1st floor of the building we were working on right down to the road outside where a car had come up and the occupants were getting to work trying to open his van with views of removing items lol. The chippy was a proper nutter lol. He got down there in seconds. They ran back into their car and proceeded to try to get away...the guy took his claw hammer out and started to decorate the windows of the car. The car then shot off down the street but it was a dead end. it was like a bloody gunfight with mad chippy standing in the middle of the road and some pretty sorry-looking thieves spinning the car round to go head on. They drove straight at him but he eventually jumped out the way whilst managing to get one final shot off in the form of embedding his hammer in their windscreen. All quite entertaining but tbh it could have ended really badly for the chippy they would have run him over and killing him probably would have seemed an option for them.

 

[mainline]

I don’t think a lump hammer to the hands make any difference.

I’ve smashed my thumb on a vast number of occasions with a big hammer while chasing walls… and it still works… mostly.

Works for now but you may suffer in later life.
I find that my some of fingers seized up after using a screwdriver for a long time.
Hence why I love the Bosch 2go the newer one is a pain with the button on the top as you tend to hit it at the wrong time, but the mechanical clutch is better than the older one.
Just saying

 

[Dustydazzler]

Since having his van broken into 3 weeks ago and all his tools nicked, old Delroy hasn't posted any vlogs on YouTube

I am rather worried about the old fella, hope he is alright

 

[Mike Johnson]

He will bounce back, probably waiting for the insurance to pay out.

 

[pirate]

#1045 above...
Must have been Wishaw...

 

[rewireIT]

Hopefully he's done the homeowners of London a favour and jacked it in.

 

[mainline]

Hopefully he's done the homeowners of London a favour and jacked it in.

He doesn’t need a lot of tools anyway.
His mft he only seems to use for zs
A hammer and screwdriver which doubles up as a chisel is essential

 

[Dustydazzler]

These days I could probably do 99% of my jobs using my wifes car and a very basic tool set / drll / MFT

 

[LukeD]

These days I could probably do 99% of my jobs using my wifes car and a very basic tool set / drll / MFT

I do the very same... anything bigger gets delivered. Many clients dont want trade vans outside .vans get robbed too easily . There was a Guy called Martin some years ago who cycled around mayfair ,chelsea etc doing domestic electrics and Plumbing .He was GOOD. Not exactly sure if up to date with qualifications then. But again, he was perfect in all he ever did . That guy made a FORTUNE > He only needed basic tools he could carry on his bike. No vehicle to run etc etc. He lived the dream !

 

[Dustydazzler]

I do the very same... anything bigger gets delivered. Many clients dont want trade vans outside .vans get robbed too easily . There was a Guy called Martin some years ago who cycled around mayfair ,chelsea etc doing domestic electrics and Plumbing .He was GOOD. Not exactly sure if up to date with qualifications then. But again, he was perfect in all he ever did . That guy made a FORTUNE > He only needed basic tools he could carry on his bike. No vehicle to run etc etc. He lived the dream !

If your day mainly consisted of EICRs and Small domestic fault finding Jobs / small installs then you could easily do it from a bike. Decent tool rucksack big enough for handtools , an 18v drill and MFT.
Get any materials sent to the customers home.

 

[rewireIT]

I do the very same... anything bigger gets delivered. Many clients dont want trade vans outside .vans get robbed too easily . There was a Guy called Martin some years ago who cycled around mayfair ,chelsea etc doing domestic electrics and Plumbing .He was GOOD. Not exactly sure if up to date with qualifications then. But again, he was perfect in all he ever did . That guy made a FORTUNE > He only needed basic tools he could carry on his bike. No vehicle to run etc etc. He lived the dream !

If i lived in London i'd Veto Pro Pac + box on wheels instead of driving

 

[LukeD]

If i lived in London i'd Veto Pro Pac + box on wheels instead of driving

Veto propacks are for "tool tarts " !

 

[rewireIT]

Veto propacks are for "tool tarts " !

Best purchase i've ever made. It's a bag but stuff inside is neat instead of being slung in

 

[littlespark]

Great.... Cycle to work, and while you're busy fixings Mrs Smith's lights, some toe rag has pinched your bike...... along with the lock!

Would you carry the propack, or tow it behind a bike on wheels??

 

[Mike Johnson]

Tow it behind would be my choice if I was still working, but may be a bit of a stretch now I live fifty odd miles from London, feasible when I lived in Blackheath, but then do I fancy an eight hour day and then a cycle home, I think I have just talked myself out of that.

 

[LukeD]

Great.... Cycle to work, and while you're busy fixings Mrs Smith's lights, some toe rag has pinched your bike...... along with the lock!

Would you carry the propack, or tow it behind a bike on wheels??

ask to bring bike inside etc ....

 

[Lister1987]

ask to bring bike inside etc ....

Missing the obvious here; rig it to a lamp post with some T&E, a belt might make them think twice I can see it now; a bike tied up with T&E, some cocky sod thinks it'll be easy pickings and instead gets a belt

 

[Petej999]

Hopefully he's done the homeowners of London a favour and jacked it in.

good point mate

 

[Mike Johnson]

People in glass house's should not.........................

 

[7029 dave]

It's unnecessary and getting extremely boring keep slagging the bloke off all the bloody time, let it alone.

 

[littlespark]

People in glass house's should not.........................

Wash the windows naked

 

[Dustydazzler]

If don't have anythong nice to say....

 

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[Dustydazzler]

Glad to see the GOAT is back after having all his stuff stolen

 

[westward10]

You two best get yer tissues out.

 

[nicebutdim]

You two best get yer tissues out.

For two very different reasons.

 

[westward10]

For two very different reasons.

I was thinking of the one.

 

[mainline]

Some electricians can learn a lot from Del.

 

[Dustydazzler]

Cutsomer wants 24 new double sockets...for his new shop

...think you might need a new fuseboard first mate

 

[Dustydazzler]

 

[DPG]

Is there any particular reason to watch it? Or any particular section?

 

[Dustydazzler]

its pretty typical of a domestic sparks gets up to week in week out, I hav e man Flu at the minute to it just takes my mind off tings

 

[mainline]

Decent job by the old boy.

 

[7029 dave]

Decent job by the old boy.

He done well pulling them singles through back to the board.
Flexi conduit to new socket position very good in the circumstances. I hate conduit alterations, with the new conlok couplers could of carried on in steel conduit to new socket.

 

[nicebutdim]

He done well pulling them singles through back to the board.
Flexi conduit to new socket position very good in the circumstances. I hate conduit alterations, with the new conlok couplers could of carried on in steel conduit to new socket.

I'd agree with steel extension if the conduit was used as earth, but flexicon extension is still a step up from sheathed cable buried directly in that singles could be pulled again if necessary. Just watched further and don't like the flexicon taped to galv - wouldn't have been to difficult to screw a coupler in there, although he did mention there was a problem when he tried to do so.

 

[DPG]

I never thought I'd share one of these videos, but see what you think to this. The comments are harsh but mostly fair - why Del sticks up for an electrician who he admits isn't good at fault finding or testing is beyond me!