Spot the problem!

[dullSpark]

I spotted this lamp outside my local Sainsburys and railway station, I believe that the lamp belongs to said supermarket.

I haven't seen it live, although no one seems want to do anything about it.

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• dullSpark
• 30 Apr 2008
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• dullSpark
• 30 Apr 2008
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[mattylad]

PErhaps a quick test to ascertain if it is live then a call into the store may be in order before someone does something silly?

 

[JohnD]

...no one seems want to do anything about it...

including you? or did you drop a short letter to the supermarket manager headed "Safety Issue"?

 

[dullSpark]

I spoke to him, although I only spotted it today.

 

[JohnD]

big organisations find it difficult to fob off or ignore letters for long.

 

[dullSpark]

I shall get it done for tomorrow morning now!

 

[ban-all-sheds]

Love the alternative to a proper gland...

 

[333rocky333]

Dont know about the one in the pic
But sometimes Thats how you buy them, the gland plate has two knurled spigots on it , and you jubilee clip it on, supplied with it.

 

[Spark123]

Has anyone else spotted the fuse? (or the piece of wire in place of it!)

 

[DESL]

Don't worry it will soon get fixed when Mrs Jones pooch cocks it's leg and goes wooooof!

 

[Lectrician]

Don't worry it will soon get fixed when Mrs Jones pooch cocks it's leg and goes wooooof!

And the red shield missing covering the lover terminal - removed to insert said 'fuseable link'! To be honest though, no fuse is not too bad - it is only fed by a 2.5, so the fusing is likely low at the origin anyway. These cutouts are designed for looping through larger cables with larger OPD's at the origin.

You can also get these lamp post cutouts in a concentric version - just two grommeted holes instead. I tend to use those, and butt a galvanised trouser leg box to the bottom of one of the grommets. Gives something decent to gland to then. Take the cores through the galv box into the cutout.

 

[securespark]

the lover terminal

 

[streetlighter]

Thats a Bill switchgear cutout. Ive seen worse than that picture on callouts like board cutouts smashed and hanging out of the column.
Needs a replacement door and a nice Tespa band to stop it being ragged off.
Prob a new cutout as well going by the corrsion on that SWA.