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Bitumen Compound is still present on a huge part of the network as apart from the last 15 years it was used to insulate/fill all cable joints and boxes....including CT chambers. Busbar chambers have not been insulated in compund for 30 odd years now....Its a messy job to break down and around...

Heres an 11kv Switchboard from im guessing the Fifties......Oil filled withdrawable manually wound up and down circuit breakers and Bitumen Compound filled busbar chambers .....thats still in service along with hundreds of others.... Compared to the latest Merlin Gerin Genie Evo...

Spot on Westie.....SOLKOR A, and its an S&C A50 thats being replaced....and an antique IDMT (PBOA) relay for the transformer HV winding

Hope you guys dont mind,me sharing a few pics from the Distribution side of things with you..... At the moment SPEN is undertaking a huge Switchgear Replacement program to get rid of ageing oil filled Switchgear that has operational restrictions on it.... Heres one where we replaced one of the...

Bring back the days when the local "Leccy board" did it all.....

Its been a while since I did CT metering for the DNO I work for, but I think the panel, the potential fuses and the CT terminal block are property of the DNO...ie If we (Scot Power) install an new Substation,Scot Power metering dept, which I think is called Dataserve these days, will turn up and...

My aging PC needs a new DVD Writer and its an IDE connection, However all the drives available now (in the UK anyway) seem to be SATA connections. I have seen adaptor connection things available that seem simply convert an IDE connection to a SATA connection.....my question is do these converter...

Top advice chaps, thanks so much, I have just spent 10 mins thinking how the box spanners would undo the gland nuts on the pipes :oops: but the penny dropped that you meant the nut behind the pipes :oops: Thanks again guys!!!!

I take it the spout will/should pull out from the gland type of thing. and if i change the tap itself, Are newer mixer tap fittings/connections standard, ie this would be a straight swap....sorry to sound like a noob, but any chance of a link to these box nut spanner sets. MUCH APPRECIATED...

The mixer tap in our kitchen is leaking from the point where it swivels......can these things be fixed....with new O rings or something similar. Im hoping it can be fixed as it looks like a big job to change the unit itself as the pipes leading to the tap are solid pipe, and to my...

GREAT INFO guys thanks in my haste lat night I didnt see the Gland nut, I thought it was part of the body of the valve..... :oops: . To be fair these radiators must be, what well over 30 years old, and at this moment (touching evrything wooden) they do get warm all over, its the newest 8 month...

After having a go at balancing my heating system, to try and sort a cold radiator (cold at the bottom), I did improve things but alas as sort of expected some of the valves are weeping on a couple of radiators elswere in the house.....they appear to be weeping from the adjustment part rather...

great advice, will try the balancing trick first.....Thanks guys!!

We have a mostly microbore sealed system connected to a 3 year old Worcester Bosh greenstar. We had a downstairs radiator replaced last year as we were redecorating and thought it a good oppurtunity to replace the aged valve which is the type only fitted to one end of the radiator, so that the...

Thanks for the great advice, I did try to take apart the frost damaged one, and it sounds as if I did indeed pull the valve chambers apart as its started to get oily and complicated :oops: , If I get no joy out of Karcher (as if I will) I think ill have a go at repairing this one, as Ill have...

Is it a simple diy job to replace ? :o

My Karcher pressure washer has let me down after just 15 months of ownership and light use, this is my fourth Karcher model the first two lasted ten years between them and in the last two years I have had two break on me, the problem is that when the trigger isnt pressed in, the unit pulsates...

Sorted that, the newer riser has 4 stregnthening pieces at the base and one of thes peices was fouling against the syphon thingy, and therefore not allowing the riser to seat. so the old unit has gone back in with the newer valve washer, The problem now is that the ball valve doesnt stop...

Ok chaps got round to fitting the new ball valve, as the replacement was a slightly different design, i had to replace the whole unit inc the filler pipe that goes through the water tank to the cold water feed, its a bottom entry fill cystern, but after 4 or 5 attempts i cant get the washer/pipe...

after flushing the toilet as the cistern is filling the cold water feed starts to make a vibrating/ringing sound which reverbs around the cold water pipes for about 5 seconds and stops when the cistern is full.......heres a pic of the offending item. how can i sort this, do i need to buy a new...