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    Fitting kitchen sink into undersized unit

    Ok, new kitchen has arrived but in her infinite wisdom the other half wanted to get a sink from elsewhere as she didn’t like the ones they sold. She found one she liked which is a sink and drainer total 750 in width, sink is 550 including tap holes to side. The rest is draining board. Now I’ve...
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    Non contact tester showing cooker live. Random shocks in kitchen.

    I only used the pen to see if there was anything that was going live to give my wife the shocks such as the washing machine that I couldn’t get a good earth off without scratching paint. Useful to scan for voltages quickly I guess. The kettle didn’t actually go in the bin it went to work...
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    Non contact tester showing cooker live. Random shocks in kitchen.

    Thank you. Just isolated the cooker circuit and pulled the front off the socket/double pole switch and hey Presto… earth wire not connected properly in the switch! It just fell out if it was even in there properly. May have just been touching the common earth “bar” So that explains it all. Pan...
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    Non contact tester showing cooker live. Random shocks in kitchen.

    Yes. Zero voltage when isolator switched off. I’m sorry as she keeps telling me more things (the joy of forums)… she now tells me the trip went a couple of times, and then stopped failing. What you say makes perfect sense, something making the case live, but why isn’t this being discharged...
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    Non contact tester showing cooker live. Random shocks in kitchen.

    She just said it was both…. Like a pulsing then a crack. Do you think she was “live” and then when touching earth either through the earthed toaster or “ground” got the shock as it discharged? Ok. The plot thickens. She’s just told me that a pan boiled over a few weeks ago and tripped the...
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    Non contact tester showing cooker live. Random shocks in kitchen.

    Thanks. Laminate floor over concrete slab. Usually wearing slippers. Yep. Have a multimeter.
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    Non contact tester showing cooker live. Random shocks in kitchen.

    That’s what I thought too (static) , but generated by what? Washing machine adjacent? But back to my original question should the cooker light up the pen?
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    Non contact tester showing cooker live. Random shocks in kitchen.

    Ok. So a few weeks ago my wife got a shock off what she thought was the metal kettle we use plugged into the outlet which is also the cooker switch (a twin unit). She binned the kettle as thought it was faulty and plugged the new kettle into another outlet in the kitchen. This is now the same...
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    Mains Tails Hot

    OK it happened again... after last time i spent 10 minutes trying to find a number to call... we are on EDF and the number just rang and rang (yes that was theer emergency number), so just turned off all high load kit and it was fine. Anyway last night it happened again so i rang western...
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    pump cutting out.

    was just before christmas 2005, and yes the depot/shop is still there!..
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    pump cutting out.

    ah that explains something. the pump would occasionally not cut out after 5 minutes of the heat going off ie overrun. as for parts. i should be able to get the part. i bought the pcb 2 years back for the servowarm depot in totnes for £20. they said then they had no plans to stop stocking the...
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    pump cutting out.

    ok. i have an old servowarm elite 50 and the the pump seems to cut out occasionally causing the water to kettle and then this cuts off the gas through the high temp cut out.. (i'm guessing here from advice i have been given elsewhere). Anyway i called an engineer out who said the system is...
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    Mains Tails Hot

    Is it normal for the cable that comes from the mains (SWEB) block to the meter to be hot. I've not touched anything in there in ages but i noticed this eve that theire was a "hot" smell. I touched all the cables from the dist board.. all ok. then worked my way back to the meter.. fine. but as i...
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    XBox 360

    basically, only buy the premium console. the core is literally the unit and a single wire controller. the core has a hard drive, wireless controller and the high def lead. you need to buy all three anyway so save the money now and buy the premium. also the premium has a silver dvd tray.. so...
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    Used Citroen C5 HDi - am i mad

    i know its old post (well a month) I have a 110 C5 HDi not a bad big car... just watch the following... (all failed within 18 months) but that was 75k miles.. car has now done 145,000 miles on an 02 plate! Gearbox refused to go into 1st and 4th... required rebuild.. (£2k) Replaced clutch...
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    Mobile phones on petrol forecourts

    the clue is in the use of a :D :shock: caravan....
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    Mobile phones on petrol forecourts

    was in sainsburys the other day paying for fuel and the cashier called her colleague over cos the system was going haywire, they couldnt figure it out and looked at the pump where the problem was and there was a woman on her phone filling up. Now they didnt know she was on the phone until they...
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    Baby travelling without parents

    i tried that, spent 25 minutes (of work time) trying to speak to someone who knows!... and as yet they havent replied to an email! useless unless you go in person.. and i'm not driving 200miles to newport to ask. :roll: :idea: :roll:
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    Baby travelling without parents

    Ok.. maybe not the correct place to post, but as i post here regularily it may be a start. (after all we are all friends............) My fiancee and I are off to hawaii :D :D for our honeymoon and our daughter is going to gran canaria with her grandparents for two weeks... now she is 2 and...
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    Wembly and all that.

    The clause is known as liquidated damages. Under all major construction projects any Project Manager who autorises a specification that does not include LD's is a fool. In all my experience i have never seen a project over 100k that does not include LD's and in fact i usually insist on them on...
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