I feel a bit silly!

[HappyHippyDad]

Today I was glanding off some SWA.... simple enough you may think.

It was towards the end of the day and I was tired. Made sure I put the shroud on first, dont intend to make that silly mistake! I'd left quite a bit of spare cable so i cut it to size and made a very nice job of getting it all glanded nicely, nice clean cut through the wire (sticky tape to ensure all bits of wire the same length) etc etc, nicely earthed etc etc..... went to put the shroud on and couldn't find it! Ridiculous as I remembered putting it on. Then I found the bit of cable I had cut off and it had a nice shroud on it!!

Re-did it all...... even more tired....... still a good job....... went to screw up the bottom part of gland (the part that has the rubber seal (CW)).... and realised it was underneath the shroud. Couldn't believe it!!

Re-did it all..... even more tired........ still a good job........ tried to tighen up the nut around the armour wire and it just wouldn't reach. It had been fine both times before, it just didn't make sense! checked all the wire strands... none overlapping, none underneath the gland. I just stared at it thinking this is impossible, it has to screw up!!

Eventually (30mins later) realised that the small, removable ring inside the gland is slightly thicker one end than the other, turned it around, glanded up, smiled, went home...... very tired!

I'm happy to take any form of abuse as I deserve it, just thought the forum could do with a bit of cheering up at the moment :smiley2:

 

[jeremy]

It's not just you; this has happened to me several times, usually when I need or want to be somewhere else!

 

[oldtimer]

A bit like the old rubber plug tops only to find that you should have slid the cover on just be happy it was swa it could have been pvc coated micc and you forgot to slide the shroud on lol (been there)

 

[7029 dave]

bet you don't make the same mistakes again lol

 

[Darkwood]

I think we all terminated the off-cut by mistake at some point ... not a cheery event at the time but good to look back and chuckle ....been a few occasions ive chopped the spare core off to realise before it hits the floor ive cut the wrong one and i just look at it thinking why! why! did i just do that!

 

[Guitarist]

Today I was glanding off some SWA.... simple enough you may think.

It was towards the end of the day and I was tired. Made sure I put the shroud on first, dont intend to make that silly mistake! I'd left quite a bit of spare cable so i cut it to size and made a very nice job of getting it all glanded nicely, nice clean cut through the wire (sticky tape to ensure all bits of wire the same length) etc etc, nicely earthed etc etc..... went to put the shroud on and couldn't find it! Ridiculous as I remembered putting it on. Then I found the bit of cable I had cut off and it had a nice shroud on it!!

Re-did it all...... even more tired....... still a good job....... went to screw up the bottom part of gland (the part that has the rubber seal (CW)).... and realised it was underneath the shroud. Couldn't believe it!!

Re-did it all..... even more tired........ still a good job........ tried to tighen up the nut around the armour wire and it just wouldn't reach. It had been fine both times before, it just didn't make sense! checked all the wire strands... none overlapping, none underneath the gland. I just stared at it thinking this is impossible, it has to screw up!!

Eventually (30mins later) realised that the small, removable ring inside the gland is slightly thicker one end than the other, turned it around, glanded up, smiled, went home...... very tired!

I'm happy to take any form of abuse as I deserve it, just thought the forum could do with a bit of cheering up at the moment :smiley2:

Much easier to cut into the swa using a junior hacksaw with the outer sheath still on. No need for tape then.

 

[Marvo]

Myself and my guys tend to do similar stupid things at the end of a shift that's been longer than planned. You tend to get to a point where you've pushed and pushed to get the job finished, the 12 hour shift has already turned into 20 hours and stupid little things just keep going wrong and it gets counter productive.

 

[Tiny Spark]

Yeah been there and done them at some point LOL
Happens to everyone!
As said though its always when you are in a hurry and need to be somewhere else!

 

[LeckyBill]

i dun that before doing a shed easy misstake to make

 

[telectrix]

i have to own up to once having left the shroud off and then slit it, slipped it on with the cut at the back, out of sight, and secured it with a cable tie.

 

[Thefailsafe2012]

i have to own up to once having left the shroud off and then slit it, slipped it on with the cut at the back, out of sight, and secured it with a cable tie.

Theres a forecourt totem display in London with one of mine similarly 'adapted' back on with rescue tape :dunce:

 

[High Tower]

i have to own up to once having left the shroud off and then slit it, slipped it on with the cut at the back, out of sight, and secured it with a cable tie.

I did 45 pyros on a night shift last week, forgot the shroud 3 times, so there are3 done exactly this way lol

 

[HappyHippyDad]

I dont feel quite so silly now..

Are you sure it was just the once Tel :wink_smile:

 

[telectrix]

yep. only once for the slitting. a few times for having to undo the gland and fit the shroud, though.

 

[decolad69]

Today I was glanding off some SWA.... simple enough you may think.

It was towards the end of the day and I was tired. Made sure I put the shroud on first, dont intend to make that silly mistake! I'd left quite a bit of spare cable so i cut it to size and made a very nice job of getting it all glanded nicely, nice clean cut through the wire (sticky tape to ensure all bits of wire the same length) etc etc, nicely earthed etc etc..... went to put the shroud on and couldn't find it! Ridiculous as I remembered putting it on. Then I found the bit of cable I had cut off and it had a nice shroud on it!!

Re-did it all...... even more tired....... still a good job....... went to screw up the bottom part of gland (the part that has the rubber seal (CW)).... and realised it was underneath the shroud. Couldn't believe it!!

Re-did it all..... even more tired........ still a good job........ tried to tighen up the nut around the armour wire and it just wouldn't reach. It had been fine both times before, it just didn't make sense! checked all the wire strands... none overlapping, none underneath the gland. I just stared at it thinking this is impossible, it has to screw up!!

Eventually (30mins later) realised that the small, removable ring inside the gland is slightly thicker one end than the other, turned it around, glanded up, smiled, went home...... very tired!

I'm happy to take any form of abuse as I deserve it, just thought the forum could do with a bit of cheering up at the moment :smiley2:

You need a holiday!

 

[ayjay]

glad i domt work with u

 

[Guest111]

Aye putting plug tops on without sliding the cover over first,there must have been thousands out there with a cut through at the back,eventually they did away with that method and they just went on after.

 

[ChrisElectrical88]

Forgot the shroud on my am2, slit it and black tape at the back! Haha
Put the olive in the wrong way round once when I was in a loft, sweated and swore for over a hour and always check now!

 

[itselectric]

i have to own up to once having left the shroud off and then slit it, slipped it on with the cut at the back, out of sight, and secured it with a cable tie.

That's what super glue is for
I learned that from putting a rubber boot on a c.v. joint on my old car

 

[Andy78]

Forgot the shroud on my am2, slit it and black tape at the back! Haha
Put the olive in the wrong way round once when I was in a loft, sweated and swore for over a hour and always check now!

Was making off a MI end in my AM2. Was chatting heaps with the course examiner and got a bit distracted. I ended up potting it off before putting my gland on. Didn't have enough length on the cable so it had to stay that way.

And yeah, I have forgotten shrouds before, and commando plug bodies.... lol

 

[UNG]

A bit like the old rubber plug tops only to find that you should have slid the cover on just be happy it was swa it could have been pvc coated micc and you forgot to slide the shroud on lol (been there)

How many times have you found the shroud split and glued at the back when doing testing or mods because someone forgot the shroud at installation

 

[Lucien Nunes]

I find it's more annoying when it's more subtle. The pyro gland nut is on the cable hiding inside the shroud but facing the wrong way. Or at the end of a complicated duct pull you find the cable is OK at both ends but looped round something in the middle and has to go back. I remember terminating my end of a bundle of 96 4mm conduit cables into DIN rails, then asking my mate to help bell everything through to the other end, only to find he had done exactly the same so we now had 96 cables connecting totally random terminals at both ends. Better that though, than when we put all the trunking lids on about 50m of run, sent the tower back to HSS, swept up and got ready for the second fix, only to find one panel had 72 reds and 71 blacks. We knew who had run the cables off, so he got a fair bit of stick!

 

[VoltzElectrical]

I forgot the shroud on my first SWA and did the same - slit the thing then black tape around it- AND NEVER FORGET AGAIN!.

Forgive yourself. We're all human.

Voltz.