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Myth !!! the best way to avoid specs fine ??? DO NOT SPEED STICK TO THE LIMIT If the mods will please allow this to stay on this thread, there is a very good FREE web forum that gives advice on correct procedures the law etc on how to defend yourself against speeding tickets and fines and the...

Urban myth very much so, its an old one.

Try this little lot http://uk.rs-online.com/web/search/searchBrowseAction.html?method=searchProducts&searchTerm=anti+static&x=24&y=8 Did you know that most static discharge shocks are anything upto 20kv, something like a discharge from a gap of say 0.5 mm can be in the region of 2kv - 4kv...

What is that green goo ? recently did a job at a hospital and there was this goo running down the wall from a few odd sockets here and there. With ref to the fuse carrier, just thought id mention that the white material should not be removed by the public or contractor for that matter as it...

Good point spark, even a small 10m lead for example can get dangerously hot if a high load is used whilst it is wound up, personally I always unwind fully all my extensions when using them.

Personally I would go for a 70W metal halide fitting, 1 in each bay would be sufficent and then if needed local task lighting in the form of fluorescent lighting.

I always leave at least an inch of inner core sheathing on above gland as well just for protecting when coming into the enclosure its going into. No one that I can see has mentioned putting the gland onto the cable as well before splaying the armourings, always a good idea to put the outer...

Thanks Spark123 and Space cat, it is exactly what I thought and the other subbie I was working with. The existing earth is the sheath of the M.I. but there is no earth tail so the contractor thought he'd run these 16mm's in and put them onto electrodes rather than do a complete run back to...

Just been doing a contract job for a contractor that is working on an NHS site, senario: two story block student flats, two D.B's one on each floor, fed in pyro some 50 m run no bigger than 6mm, only earth was of inadequate size off the conduit box terminal, so this contractor has put in two...

I read it myself in the 17th edition the other day that there is no requirement for sinks, showers,radiators etc to be cross bonded providing that the earth on all mains services is present, connected and of the right size. I was taught at college (15th ed) we were told to x bond everything...

How can the mcanns ever move on ? they have lost one of their children or have you missplaced your brain ? how can anyone get over loosing one of their children ?

Remember it is an offence to alter the wiring in the bt master point under the tellegraphy and wireless act, you can plug extensions and wire into existing master points but it is illegal to alter bt wiring.

being as there is no mains voltage present in the alarm / rkp cable you can do numerous things with it...you can clip it surface, you coud place it in mini trunking or you could chop it in and re plaster the choice is yours...however should you chop it in then I suggest you place metal or...

:lol: :lol: :lol: the justice system :lol: :lol: :lol: worra laugh :lol: :lol: :lol:

If the death sentence were to be brought in then that would lead to a bigger problem on top of an already big problem....prison overcrowding. How many people are living in us jails that have been sentenced to death ? the exact same thing would inevitably happen over here. If they are sentenced...

The reason the sign is grey ? I am informed by a certain tfraafic warden is because it is more distinguishable in the grey colour, if it was red then it would look more like lorries are prohibited. I thankyou very much no need to applaud :roll:

522-06-03 "buried cables shall be marked by cable covers or a suitable marking tape. ... buried cables ... shall be at sufficient depth to avoid being damaged by any reasonable foreseeable disturbance of the ground" IEE Guidance Note One states "A depth of burial less than 500mm is usually...

B & Q sell consumer units for joe public to fit yet that falls under part p, if you buy one of these kits and affix the socket to your wall it therefore becomes fixed and it therefore has to comply with regs part p.

Have you tried energy saving lamps instead of normal tungsten filament lamps ?