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Depends how big a kettle you use :wink:

Not difficult to work out though - a quick whois lookup on the domain names of both sites gives them as running through the same C/O address, company & name truly the web is full of charlatans and scumbags.... But we knew that already :wink:

1) fill kettle with water and allow to boil 2) Pour boiling water over area where ants live 3) retire to sofa & contemplate the enormity of the ant genocide that you have committed :twisted:

put a funnel into the hole, pour some diesel in, beat a hasty retreat and leave for a while. Should do the job & kill 'em stone dead :twisted:

The easiest, simplest and above all cheapest way would be to get a couple of 13a to 16A pigtails (with RCD's on them if necessary), plug 'em in from 2 different sockets on the domestic ring circuit, run them out the window and over to the marquee, and split the load across the 2 outlets. You...

Try now - rude word on original image location that the swear filter picked up, starred out, and busted the link.... Should work ok now.... I hope :?

guess it's time to wheel out +++++++++++++ obscene link removed Mod Rupert ++++++++++++++

Ooof - brings back "happy" memories of my own fireplace traumas :evil: It's amazing what can lurk behind an old fire - most of it enough to give you sleepless nights.. Can I suggest that you hot-foot it down to the local hire shop and get a couple of strongboy sapports and a couple of...

for the timber yard, have you tried Quay timber in Byker by the Ouseburn (just off byker bank). Slap Quay timber into Yell.co.uk and you'll get the details.... They have a fairly good stock range so might be able to sort you out....

Spot on., cheers for checking Much appreciated :)

Is that with the hexagonal side facing towards you?

Left my multimeter on my desk at work by accident :oops: The lead is feeding into 'a 150 watt halogen light (mounted on a stage lighting T bar being fed from a 6 gang IEC female socket board so it shouldn't matter... Just wanting to get it right and all... 8)

Slightly stuck with this. Trying to wire up a male IEC line plug, but the stupid thing doesn't make which of the 2 shorter pins is the live, and which is neutral (the middle longer pin is marked as earth). According to the blurb on various sites it's a c13 type plug, and lookes like this...

That's what I'm worried about... The distro should really be tested at every location it's used at, but I'm not going to be mr popular if I keep tripping RCD's wherever I go :twisted: Methinks I'm going to have to get another RCD... Rats....

No problem 2 are MK's, the third's a proteus without a functional earth I'm thinking I might.... Don't really want to trip the main CU RCD every time I test the thing... I'll get into trouble from the better half :roll:

Yep - both are 30MA RCD's, so it looks like I've got nowt to worry about then - much appreciated.... Just out of curiosity - what would happen if I disconnected the functional earth and terminated it in a choc-block?? Would it render the RCD unsafe??

Evening folks, I've built a couple of portable distro's (32A plugs to small CU's with RCD's and MCB's out to 13A sockets etc), and 3 of 4 are fine, the RCD tests ok and no bother. The 4th one is causing a bit more of a strange 'un.... It's a proteus 40A RCD with a functional earth cable...

Naah - it's a metal crimp on the end of the wire - just the angle the photo was taken from.... I'm daft but not that daft.... :wink:

Ah-ha!!! I thought it might be an earth but didn't want to say it in case I was way off the mark and subsequently scoffed at :oops: Not a trace of a tab to indicate earth or anything... Typical... Much appreciated though - off to wire it in now :wink:

Afternoon folks. About to put an RCD into a little portable distro (32A socket to a CU with an RCD, then a 32A MCB, and then to 3 x 13A sockets on a ring). I was given an RCD (proteus) to put in it, and it appears to have a little cable coming out of it (can't be much more than .5mm) from...