Most Awe Inspiring?

[Fratton sPark]

What is the best/ worst (depending on ya point of view) statement you have heard a so-called, qualified spark, make recently?

Mine was when a colleague asked me:

"Why can't I wire this circuit in red and black? What do you mean harmonised colours?"

The next best I heard (but this was from an apprentice) was:

(In the Shipyard) "I'm not allowed to wire sockets in the boat-houses, but Harry is, cause he's just got his Part-P."

 

[securespark]

"I've replaced the fusewire and it still doesn't work. Must be a loose connection in the fusebox..."

A (so-called) qualified colleague who fitted a fusewire which snapped....

 

[Fratton sPark]

Nice one.

Another fav, was a few years back, when I worked at a local RN training base. A chap who was going round doing PAT, was asked,

"I don't understand why you have to do that earth test thing?"

His reply, "Neither do I. None of the countries in Europe has an earth system, and nobody there ever dies from electric shock."

 

[Adam_151]

heh, thats my argument in support of sockets in the bathroom (along with Ireland and malta, we are one of the only countries that doesn't have them...)

 

[ebee]

I wired it in and it works so it is OK then, why test it? agghh

Two Norweb blokes moving cut out to basement for a shop refurb.
Broke into incomming armoured cable and declared "Oh two reds and a black, I`ll join the reds then you can have more current" His mate stopped him before I ran and then found each red to black was 240 and two reds was 415, yes it was a 2 phase supply

 

[plugwash]

from the voltages you give it sounds like 2 phases from a 3 phase system not a true 2 phase system.

 

[ebee]

Yes sorry I didn`t explain it was in fact as you say two phases of three phase system

My main concern was joining two reds.
I didn`t know whether to laugh, dry or ru n like the clappers till his mate stopped him.

 

[RF Lighting]

I'd run like the clappers personally.

 

[securespark]

Every time!!