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There are clips designed to retain the cables inside the trunking @brightspark will probably give a better answer as he's more up to date.
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There are clips designed to retain the cables inside the trunking @brightspark will probably give a better answer as he's more up to date.
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they do a range of metal clips that go inside plastic trunking and must be fitted if they go across a ceiling it was only on escape routs but new regs any room. plastic cable clips on surface not allowed . if you want to use plastic round conduit across ceilings you just use the pressed steel ones instead of the plastic ones then it complies. if there is a fire it wont all drop down on the firemans head 
https://www.google.co.uk/search?ei=...6ezlAhXSYcAKHZjJB4QQ4dUDCAo#spf=1573841670530
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It wouldn't be today, but if it complied with the Regs in force at the time it was installed you cannot apply the Regs retrospectively, unless you make substantial changes to the circuit or installation. There must still be 100s of thousands of old Wylex fuse boards, with re-wireable fuses, still in service across the country.Thinking of electrical safety rules/regs, is there any situation where you can use these clips on mains cable nowadays? When I moved 4 years ago the estate agent said that they were not acceptable when he saw them/cable runs in my garage, he said that all cables must be inside conduit now? Is that correct??
I'll probably have this problem when I finally decide to move house, as I wired my garage when we moved in 18 years ago and used surface-mounted cable held in place with placcy cable clips!
Going back to the OP, we had a French service engineer come to a previous workplace with a test instrument which needed a 240v AC supply. He was very unhappy when we told him site rules stated he had to have an industrial-type blue-coloured 16 amp 240v plug fitted to it, which shouldn't have been a drama as we had sparkies and plugs ready, when the plug was opened up it turned out at some point the fuse had been substituted with a cut-down nail
It scares me how many people don't realise that you shouldn't be able to see the coloured insulation around individual flex cores at any point on a flex, including the bit that 'doesn't really matter' near the plug. And of course, we have the joyous festive season nearly upon us where hundreds of thousands of sets of fairy lights make their annual sojourn out of the loft where they've sat quietly decaying in the cold and damp for weeks............Thank gawd most of them are low-voltage now, that just leaves their overheating transformers
Going back to the OP, we had a French service engineer come to a previous workplace with a test instrument which needed a 240v AC supply. He was very unhappy when we told him site rules stated he had to have an industrial-type blue-coloured 16 amp 240v plug fitted to it, which shouldn't have been a drama as we had sparkies and plugs ready, when the plug was opened up it turned out at some point the fuse had been substituted with a cut-down nail
It scares me how many people don't realise that you shouldn't be able to see the coloured insulation around individual flex cores at any point on a flex, including the bit that 'doesn't really matter' near the plug. And of course, we have the joyous festive season nearly upon us where hundreds of thousands of sets of fairy lights make their annual sojourn out of the loft where they've sat quietly decaying in the cold and damp for weeks............Thank gawd most of them are low-voltage now, that just leaves their overheating transformers
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This was only about a month ago, brand new cut 50 plasma. Apparently standard to find with these quality machines
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It won't be just the torch that might spit fire with a fuse like that.This was only about a month ago, brand new cut 50 plasma. Apparently standard to find with these quality machines
I do like a good bit of Chinglish translation.
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This was only about a month ago, brand new cut 50 plasma. Apparently standard to find with these quality machines
Can you imagine being in the middle of a job and that blows/needs replacing, you'll not be able to slip another fuse in there.
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May have machined a fuse from copper earlier in the year.View attachment 201072
This was only about a month ago, brand new cut 50 plasma. Apparently standard to find with these quality machines
Mills motor when geared for high speed would blow the fure on the inrush.
If I gave the pulley a spin as I hit the button the fuse didn't blow.
Not the best solution I know.
I've seen a few photos of "soldered in copper wire to replace fuse"
I'm always impressed they managed to heat the plug terminals up enough to get the solder to flow/stick without melting the plug at all
unless the plug is a bit melted and I just can't see it in the photos?
I'm always impressed they managed to heat the plug terminals up enough to get the solder to flow/stick without melting the plug at all
unless the plug is a bit melted and I just can't see it in the photos?
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Obviously lii informed amateurs, isn't the correct procedure to drill through the 13a fuse lengthways, pass a length of 15a fuse wire through then a blob of solder to each fuse end cap.
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Was some neat work, fuse cap hot glue in too, for extra protection
Thinking on it, how many other countries have fused plugs?
It was changed shortly after that picture btw
Thinking on it, how many other countries have fused plugs?
It was changed shortly after that picture btw
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As eletrician I can only say that it's dangerous to service electrical components and apparatus when who does that has no clue of what he is doing
Unfortunately I had to work on machines that being touched before by someone that made only worst
It's quite stressful try to solve problems made by other peoples because usually they figured out to do things that cause you to work twice of the time to solve a simple issue
This happens when the task is easy
When it's difficult , you have to understand how and why who worked on the machine did what you find when you have to repair his mistakes ....
And trust me that usually takes way more time than what normally should require
Unfortunately I had to work on machines that being touched before by someone that made only worst
It's quite stressful try to solve problems made by other peoples because usually they figured out to do things that cause you to work twice of the time to solve a simple issue
This happens when the task is easy
When it's difficult , you have to understand how and why who worked on the machine did what you find when you have to repair his mistakes ....
And trust me that usually takes way more time than what normally should require
Obviously lii informed amateurs, isn't the correct procedure to drill through the 13a fuse lengthways, pass a length of 15a fuse wire through then a blob of solder to each fuse end cap.
Now that's just sneaky lol
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