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I am 70 . So if anyone wants to accuse me of being old I will plead guilty. I am not sure what age has actualy to to with anything, I might still be more biased than I think I am whatever age I might be!

Well Farage got loadsa a money for going on that Ant & Dec Jungle prog which is not good at all. Yet the measure of the man is far worse, he got into bed with Trump, the most loathed Clownstick of both the civilised world and the rest. That is enough to say NO to Reform.

Well there is often said a "supposedly" sort of scientific approach to comparing prices of such things (I am not favouring above any other way). Get, say, 10 estimates. Discard the most expensive and the least expensive. From the remainder get an average. from that average lookk first at...

I think (thanks to Frodo and others) we might contemplate whether we all might have a bias pro or con according to local custom, what we were taught, what we ourselves or our close peers think. Are we all capable of bias even though we might try to avoid it? probably!

Harry I have met some daft people. Even daft Electricians. Plus plenty of daft "Electricians" and I would be really surprised if you haven`t (that does not mean I do not believe you but I suspect if you think back you might remember a few. and thats just the relatvely sane ones like me and thee...

Sorry Harry hope its clear now, It was quite a while ago If I remember correctly, probably prior Part P too

I have only read the title of this thread, nothing else. My remark about the title is - Apart from Earths, All conductors are LIVE, some maybe LINE and some maybe N. Any conductor that may carry current as part of its intended function is LIVE, a convention that we do not usually call a...

A friend of a friend *Both Electricians) had the idea to deliberately short the fuse (cut out) then quickly change the consumer unit, then report a "Power Cut" and get a DNO fix and therefore they would be unaware a new CU had been fitted. Whether or not he ever went thru with his madcap plan I...

Yes you could well be right about that John. Things we were brought up on tends to (in our minds) give them more credance. We are capable of being biased no matter how hard we try not to be. The ring final versus radial final might be one example. A pressure spring connection versus a screwed...

Looks like a few of us at least, are thinking pretty much along the same lines really. I myself do not have a problem with Wagos etc on lighting circuits but my trepidation starts to creep in on power circuits really. Yet logically I know that they have certainly been aware that they have been...

Not always by default - a C1,C2, C3 etc is not defined as when it was allowed but now it is not allowed (that might have some effect on an inspectors judgement as to what extent something is considered safe or unsafe though) but must be based upon how safe or unsafe something actually is. Purely...

Come on, I think when most say space they actually mean outer space really!

No, every normal person and animal were already in space, depending upon the qualifying yardstick then the wright brothers or some others were the first ones in outer space. I reckon that Major Gagarin should qualify for first one into outer space really though.

Hmmm, well we were always told that space is where we are now (on the planet Earth, all around us) and outer space is once we go up a few miles.

Well we were always told that space is where we are now (on the planet Earth) once we leave it is Outer space .

Last time I enquired in the old NORWEB area I think it was £12 to supply and fit an isolator . to come and make a temporary connection permanent say after a new consumer unit fitted it was ...... £12. So the sensible thing was to request an isolator and allow them to fit it before you started...

Mind you if outer space is still space and inner space is still space then yes you were correct, so I`ll give you it back :oops:

Oh no he was not! He might have been the first man into outer space though - I`ll give yer that one! ;)

That is why I have some trepidation with wgo type thingys to some extent and whilst I have used them myself I think of the minimu hold and minimum safe current they might be capable of achieving , I do look on them a little less lovingly than the manufacturers might do, I think. To be fair I do...

Yes Agreed. 2... yes indeed it does probably stem from how good the fuseholder grips the fuse end caps in my opinion can vary quite a bit with different makes, it is the weaker cheaper ones I reckon mostly likely culprit, if it`s only friction pressure of a bit of springy metal that can cause...