Blond moments, missing the simple.

[ericmark]

Bread slicer would not work for my wife.
Tried it in another socket, still did not work.
So get my meters out. Socket loop impedance OK and shows 240 volts.
Plug in slicer, with switch off test cable with NCV tester, switch on and jumps from 1 to 4 bars, so seems likely fuse OK.
Press button on top, does not work, study the unit looking for some safety cut out.
Find a second switch so need to use two fingers to press both buttons so one hand at least out of the way of the blade.

I felt so daft, I blame my white hair, but wife has no excuse, she dies her hair.

 

[Wayners]

Not me but.
Electrician told me..

Dishwasher.
Moved bread bin which knocked the wall isolator switch cutting power.
£600 on a new dishwasher after throwing the old one out for scrap man.
New one still didn't work.
Called and electrician out who said just switch here.
£600+£50 wasted

I filled my diesel van up with petrol once. That was a great day!

 

[ericmark]

I filled my diesel van up with petrol once. That was a great day!

I was lucky, wife did not put that much in, and it still ran on the mixture, in fact think there had been some waxing, and after the petrol it ran better.

Nearly did the dishwasher thing myself, something was tripping the RCBO, after a lot of turning items off, on turning off dishwasher it stopped tripping, but for some reason I tested RCBO and tripping at 24 mA and since all meters to hand, tested dishwasher earth to neutral to see what it showed, around 20 MΩ, so retried it, and ran without a problem, I have no idea what tripped the RCBO, but it was not tripping any more. Still wonder what was causing the trip. Capacitor or slug what ever it was, it was blown clear.

But how many times I had used the bread slicer many times, how did I fail to press the two buttons? A senior moment!

 

[Wayners]

I like the one about the lady cleaning her car as she was part exchanging it for car with air conditioning later that day. She loved her current car but wanted one with air conditioning. She was telling the neighbour all about it when neighbour pointed out her current car has air conditioning, which he then got her to start her car and turn it on. Ha
Maybe she was blond?

I no loads.
Rugby tour going to wrong ferrie port was a classic..
They were early to so got hammered in the port bar. Even the driver as only short drive up ramp to boat. They were at front.Was wrong port though by 100s of miles. All blonds you think?

 

[SUNRAY]

Not me but.
Electrician told me..

Dishwasher.
Moved bread bin which knocked the wall isolator switch cutting power.
£600 on a new dishwasher after throwing the old one out for scrap man.
New one still didn't work.
Called and electrician out who said just switch here.
£600+£50 wasted

I filled my diesel van up with petrol once. That was a great day!

My neighbour changed his car to a diesel.
First time filling he added ~10L of petrol to the ¼ tank of diesel before realising and stopped. (presumably now under ½ full tank)
Had to pay for the fuel.
Called his recovery company, they lifted and took it to a garage.
Silly big bill to strip all sorts of bits to check for damage, including removing the tank for a deep clean, and replace all filters, including the bug filter on the air intake for the ventilation system etc
He payed the extortionate price that garage charged for diesel to the same level they drained out.

He then explained all that to me so I asked if he'd started it? No. I asked what they did with the drained fuel? He had to pay for the disposal.

Talk about conned.
I'd have happily paid for enough 5L plastic fuel cans to syphon it out and trickle it back in

 

[Wayners]

I drove van but I could smell petrol.
Started to bang.
Called mate and he towed me home.
Pulled a fuel pipe off and spent 3 hours on the filter air pump pushing It. Pumped out all the fuel which he put in his Toyota supra.
Old petrol cars don't mind a bit of diesel apparently.
I then filled up two gallons of diesel and used filter priming pump to draw through. Started Van.

 

[plugwash]

I used to know someone who owned a vintage military truck which was apparently very tolerant of what fuel you ran in it. Apparently he used to get fuel for free by asking garages for their waste fuel.

 

[Wayners]

Those garage fuel heaters can run on anything. This pay for disposal was a earner. They sold fuel imo

 

[ericmark]

I used to know someone who owned a vintage military truck which was apparently very tolerant of what fuel you ran in it. Apparently he used to get fuel for free by asking garages for their waste fuel.

Bedford TK with a Siemens in line pump. The DPA pump would not work with multi-fuel the Siemens would.

 

[securespark]

Mrs Secure filled up 2 different Diesel cars 3 times with petrol while pregnant. Didn't ever make a mistake when not pregnant...

 

[Ragnar_AT]

Not sure about modern Diesel engines but older ones ran quite happily on up to 25% petrol. In fact, back in the early 80s adding petrol was the only known way to keep the Diesel from crystallising below 5C.

I definitely had a moment like that. Ceiling light stopped working. Investigation showed enough horrible VIR and early PVC wiring to warrant a rewire of the whole kitchen. Light still didn‘t work. Light bulb had blown.

 

[SUNRAY]

Not sure about modern Diesel engines but older ones ran quite happily on up to 25% petrol. In fact, back in the early 80s adding petrol was the only known way to keep the Diesel from crystallising below 5C.

I definitely had a moment like that. Ceiling light stopped working. Investigation showed enough horrible VIR and early PVC wiring to warrant a rewire of the whole kitchen. Light still didn‘t work. Light bulb had blown.

Years ago I wired a new build house, filled every light fitting with bulbs and applied power...

I think it was 3 lights not working it didn't instantly occur to me to check for so many dead bulbs

 

[pete01]

I disconnected a few machines the once in Birmingham and reconnected them in Portsmouth I think it was.....all good went home Friday had a call Monday one of the machines has stopped working.....went down pulled out an e-stop and drove home....6 hour round trip (ish) blonde moment but not by me

 

[pete01]

Years ago I wired a new build house, filled every light fitting with bulbs and applied power...

I think it was 3 lights not working it didn't instantly occur to me to check for so many dead bulbs

I did something similar, done a rewire and the wholesalers gave me a box of 110v bulbs, few crackles and bangs and me having a panic

 

[ericmark]

I did something similar, done a rewire and the wholesalers gave me a box of 110v bulbs, few crackles and bangs and me having a panic

You're not the only one. Also, wife rummaging through the garage looking for an ES bulb, and finding a SON bulb and fitting it into a standard ES light fitting. Good by my expensive SON bulb.