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    Is this normal?

    Yes and what made me feel even more stupid is that i'm a cable jointer and assume is one of the most frowned upon words about in our company!
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    Is this normal?

    It could of been worse- my house has two ring mains for the sockets, one for downstairs and one for upstairs. I was changing a socket upstairs and I turned off the breaker for upstairs and unscrewed the socket followed by the terminals and pulled the socket free leaving two reds, two blacks and...
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    Move electric inlet and meter

    take some pictures too
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    This made me get stroppy earlier

    Ok, so I'm up in the loft preparing to put some new insulation down and go around pulling all the 1.5 lighting t&e up over the fiberglass to prevent overheating. I traced where it all went so i can check the terminations and tightness in junction boxes etc before i get too involved. Lifted up a...
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    OK chums, what shall I do with....

    ah my dad (works for bt) has one of those ohmmeter things in his garage and has done for years. I have no idea what its for or what its supposed to do, i have over the years several times attempted to get it to do something but i can't work it out
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    Picture of the week!™

    Seen this done before.... jessies
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    1998 Peugeot 406 1.8 16v ignition coil pack

    No the engine management light has not been on at any time (it does work as it lights up when the ignition is turned on with the other indicator and warning lamps on the dash), could it be a bad connection somewhere? It is french after all!
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    1998 Peugeot 406 1.8 16v ignition coil pack

    Hmm.. yeah i could give that a go, I replaced the plugs at just under 100k and it's nearly on 120k now so maybe?
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    1998 Peugeot 406 1.8 16v ignition coil pack

    I've had this car for 3 1/2 years and done nearly 40k in it with nothing major. Drove it to cardiff on thursday which is about 95 miles from my house and got to 11 miles left on the tomtom and when driving in a 50mph limit, I realised that i'd lost alot of power. It was misfiring and wouldn't...
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    Watch Where You're Drilling...

    The hole was being drilled as the house was having sky installed. The cable is a bit of 35mm concentric fed from overheads and no, the substation fuses didn't blow there was just a bang!
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    Watch Where You're Drilling...

    Just be careful or this might happen!
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    Whywould it do this!?

    My mums peugeot 106 1.1 developed a problem with it's starter motor where it was turning over very slowly and then hardly at all with the starter motor leads getting hot. Long story short..... I took out the starter and noticed that a chunk of metal had broken off it and fallen into the clutch...
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    TN-C-S or TN-S

    The scruffy gits! I take pride in my installations, i would never leave anything in such a state!
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    A Tale of Woe - A Lesson Learnt

    very lucky! I still don't know how i came off so well when i touched the live and neutral wires of a socket i was changing that happened to still be live (upstairs, every socket upstairs is on one ring main- except this one! so i found out!) I unscrewed the connectors and removed the...
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    Reasons not to steal cables

    FGS these idiots cause so much hassle! Some of them have even figured out how to switch out sections of HV overhead lines in order to cut them down and have the copper away! :evil:
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    Emergency job

    tw@ :lol: the things people do never cease to amaze me :roll: The other day we had a disconnection to do and the guy decided against waiting for us and ripped the house down with all the services still connected! ripped out the gas, ripped out the electric, ripped out the water. So went...
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    Just A Couple Of Pics

    Yeah get the old rezap on it and blow it to bits!! :D
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    Just A Couple Of Pics

    it all looks like something out of a frankenstine film! especially that old knife switch!
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    Just A Couple Of Pics

    I know how much you guys like pics of rickety ancient electrics so i thought i'd share these with you. I had to go and do testing on this feeder pillar in this substation a couple of days ago and took a couple of pics. It's an open busbar type- that's right three metal busbars completely exposed...
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    Central Heating Valve Help

    Thanks for the reply, would a honeywell actuator fit the valve baseplate that I have?
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