I broke the main fuse seal

[morqthana]

do you weigh all the items you buy from supermarkets/wherever?

I have to confess that for things not sold by weight (e.g. packs of fruit or veg, or individual items) I will take a few off to the scales to check them. Sometimes the differences in weight can be significant.

If when weighing out something that was sold by weight, to print a price sticker, someone was presented with a choice of, say, £1/kg or £1.30/kg for the same product, I think it unlikely they'd pick £1.30.

I also photograph special offer prices on shelf-edge labels and then check the receipt before leaving the store. Trust me - it really is the case that you don't get the offer price often enough for that to be a good idea, especially when it's £2-3 off a bottle of wine.

 

[morqthana]

Taking a fuse out under no load is pretty safe in my opinion...

Unless the whole thing disintegrates in your hand.

 

[pete01]

Unless the whole thing disintegrates in your hand.

Or a helicopter flies through the window and kills you?

I've pulled loads out, if it looks or feels in bad condition don't do it.....simples...

 

[JohnW2]

ESQCR

Indeed. As I recently wrote, ESQCR probably brings these matters into (potentially 'criminal') law, even if nothing else does ....

I think you'll find that the contracts (which we are all deemed to have seen {by using their electricity}, even though most haven't!) cross-refer to DNO regulations, not to mention ESQCR (which is 'law').

25.—(1) No person shall make or alter a connection from a distributor’s network to a consumer’s installation, a street electrical fixture or to another distributor’s network without that distributor’s consent, unless such consent has been unreasonably withheld.

Even if that doesn't catch removing the fuse. replacing it is making a connection.

Indeed so, provided that the cutout is regarded as part of the "network" (which I suspect it may).

 

[JohnW2]

Unless the whole thing disintegrates in your hand.

True, but I think the risk of that is minimised if one heeds ...

Quite so - and provided one knows what sort of cutouts 'to go nowhere near' (which may also be true of DNO personnel!), an awful lot safer than doing things with live tails!

 

[JohnW2]

I have to confess that for things not sold by weight (e.g. packs of fruit or veg, or individual items) I will take a few off to the scales to check them. Sometimes the differences in weight can be significant.

Fair enough - but if they're not being sold by weight, what are you actually 'checking'? If you're interest in merely in larger, or greater numbers of, items of fruit/veg, that's surely just a matter for your eyes, and your personal preferences, isn't it?

If when weighing out something that was sold by weight, to print a price sticker, someone was presented with a choice of, say, £1/kg or £1.30/kg for the same product, I think it unlikely they'd pick £1.30.

I'm not sure what you mean by "presented with a choice of ...".

I also photograph special offer prices on shelf-edge labels and then check the receipt before leaving the store. Trust me - it really is the case that you don't get the offer price often enough for that to be a good idea, especially when it's £2-3 off a bottle of wine.

I can believe what you say, but I don't think many of us would go to those lengths to check

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

Indeed, if there were absolutely no risk to their personnel, then nor would there be any risk to anyone else ('competent') who did it.

That's why they are supposed to wear all that PPE.

 

[JohnW2]

That's why they are supposed to wear all that PPE.

I've never actually seen anyone wearing any more PPE than gloves (and very often not even that) when pulling a standard cutout fuse.

However, anyone doing it (whether DNO personnel or otherwise) is free to wear as much PPE (and as 'robust' PPE) as they feel appropriate or necessary.