daedalusminos
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Nice to see that slack on the earth connectionIt now looks like this
Nice to see that slack on the earth connectionIt now looks like this
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
Fixed that for you !Obviously lii informed amateurs, isn't the correct procedure to drill through the 13a fuse lengthways, pass a length of 30AMP fuse wire through then a blob of solder to each fuse end cap.
They call them sound alert fuse ,when them blow you know that are the fusesThe worst 2 fuse replacements I have found are;
1) a piece of copper brake in a 13Amp plug top ,
And;
2) in the 4 fuse fuse box of an old Series Land-Rover109;
2 live .22 rounds
A long series of analogue events can be resumed using few wordsI HATE this.....
also when someone breaks something but doesn't say anything... so I don't know to fix it until it's either totally broken or something else on it breaks... then I don't know they're separate problems... think it's all connected and spend forever trying to figure it out!
tho I once had a guy who said the handbrake light keeps coming on in one of the work vans... thought nothing of it, figured it's the little switch on the handbrake earthing out somewhere... told him I'd fix it at the weekend.... was busy that weekend with bog jobs so didn't have time... it was the end of the next week when I was blocked in so took that van to nip to the shop
As soon as I pulled away I realised the breaks weren't right... it wasn't the handbrake light, it was the break fluid light... leaking cylinder on the back and system full of air... no idea how he'd kept driving like that :-o
When my wife was in hospital with our first child I finished off a few jobs in the babies bedroom which involved moving a radiator. When floor was lifted I found the previous owner had just twisted the ring main wires together and then wrapped them in cellotape
That sounds like our Mr Nearly's handi work when he altered the bungaloe wiring . Ddid you have any flush 50 watt halogen's in the ceilings .. Where he hole sawed into the joists and through the trusses to get the lights in a nice straight evenly space line .
The first afternoon in the place the smoke alarm went off within seconds of me putting it up . Rechecked the battery alarm outside ... nothing , brought it back to where I'd sited it & off it went .. that's when I smelt burning wood . Realised it was to do with the halogens . Had a good check of things , found three out of five light had charred the holes where he'd cut into or right through the roof trusses . No silicone sleeves on the feed wires either , most were well scorched . I took the lights out & put screwed & glued CLS splints on all the damaged trusses & for the time being put a simple ceiling rose light up .
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
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.
Nice to see that slack on the earth connection
If I'm not mistakenBefore I had 16a sockets my welders had 13a plugs fitted with a bit of 15a fuse wire soldered across a blown 13a fuse. Not really a problem as the welder has a 2.5mm flex & the supply is 6mm, both rated for nearly double 15a.
On the other hand an ex pro welder at our Men's Shed has a very dodgy way of running his 250a mig from a 13a plug. He has replaced the live pin with the neutral pin from another plug, so he can wire it with no fuse at all, similar to the old 15a round pin plugs!
If I'm not mistaken
You are the only country which uses to put a fuse in the plug
I can understand to use them on particular applications but a welder in any case has an hudge different between rathed current consumption and inrush current
Just put a CEE plug ,the fuse is into the wall outlet (Cee switch ones)
If I've fiddled myself whoever it's taken to gets a rundown of what I've done/ tried so they can troubleshoot taking it into account.That's a star award post Memmeddu.
I wish I had £ 10 for every job that Mr Numbnuts has tried to sort out before bringing it to me … I'd be a very very wealthy old man . Worse is when you tell them that you don't understand how it could possibly have worked as there are several vital bits missing . Not long ago I went to an older friends workshop with a big magnet on a bit of string ( saves bending down ) 20 minutes later I find the two tiny springs he'd not known had come out . But this guy was man enough to admit trying to sort it himself .
This was only about a month ago, brand new cut 50 plasma. Apparently standard to find with these quality machines
Our Mr Nearly lived at your place too ?When I bought my house the previous owner left a helpful list of "maintenance" chores.
One was going into the loft once a month to top up the central heating header. I suspect he'd been doing that for many years.
Electrics were no better...refurb of bedroom and am shouting at my builder to pull the bloody light switch cable up in the loft. I look up and he's holding the cable in his hand..so what I'm looking at is a cable they drilled through the wall from the other room!
Here in Italy we haveThe biggest light we can run off a domestic feed is a 2.5kw, anything bigger and we get a generator in. Did a job and the gaffer had "a special plug" in his bag, ran a 4k from a 13a socket. It was basically a 13a to 32a jumper (ballasts are 32a plugged) with the fuse bypassed. Thought he was really clever with his magic jumper