lol, hope your willing to get used to it!
Working with SWA cable
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spark said:A little 'off-topic', but it's not necessarily a bad thing. Just feeling the cold chill of youth breeze through the forum
yep well u no everything has to be replaced with new, i take it you are starting to feel like 192 being sweptout by 118 ? lol
I'm not that much older than you boys! The more you learn, the more you
will realise you need the older generations to learn from. You will soon
learn that the old boys aren't up-to-date with their reg's, they often have
a 'can't test-won't test' attitude, they moan a lot, they take tea breaks
regular as clockwork, they hark back to the 'good old days' and often
critisise modern installation methods, they never run earth wires when
installing metal conduit or SWA cables unless you catagorically say they
must (!) and they still talk in old money about 3/4" conduit (they really
mean 20mm!) etc BUT you never have to go back to anything they
do, they always clean up after themselves, you don't have to ask them to
be on-time in the morning, they don't need asking to go back to work after
lunch, you never catch them sitting around doing nothing, they'd rather
spend days manufacturing trunking bends than just buy them and take a
fraction of the time (many younger sparks I've found can't manufacture a
thing), they still use old practices like splicing and sweating many of which
are long forgotten, you never find them scrounging for tools from people
and despite their ignorance about testing, you never seem to get a bad
test result from their circuits....
will realise you need the older generations to learn from. You will soon
learn that the old boys aren't up-to-date with their reg's, they often have
a 'can't test-won't test' attitude, they moan a lot, they take tea breaks
regular as clockwork, they hark back to the 'good old days' and often
critisise modern installation methods, they never run earth wires when
installing metal conduit or SWA cables unless you catagorically say they
must (!) and they still talk in old money about 3/4" conduit (they really
mean 20mm!) etc BUT you never have to go back to anything they
do, they always clean up after themselves, you don't have to ask them to
be on-time in the morning, they don't need asking to go back to work after
lunch, you never catch them sitting around doing nothing, they'd rather
spend days manufacturing trunking bends than just buy them and take a
fraction of the time (many younger sparks I've found can't manufacture a
thing), they still use old practices like splicing and sweating many of which
are long forgotten, you never find them scrounging for tools from people
and despite their ignorance about testing, you never seem to get a bad
test result from their circuits....
well my dad started me off, associated with a few electricains, been whatching them at my new house while they are building it and keep on reading books!
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