Gyp's Tips - No 8 in a series of 4

You could have been wierd. How was I supposed to know?

 

All right, the truth, then. Renapur.

 

That's an extra fiver. Is it the sandpaper glove you want again, deary?

 

No, the little white sponge.

 

The sponge never stays white for very long though.

 

This is where the modern alternative of using breakers has a weak
point. Had a similar shocking experience rewiring my last house, Kate
& the girls were out when I started but came back whilst I was still
working. As she walked in the door Kate saw the breaker down and
thinking it tripped[1] put it back on.

[1] well that's her story, it of course could have been an attempt to
collect on the insurance.

 

I had the opposite - I had turned the lighting circuit off while
wiring up the bedroom ceiling fan.. then shouted down to Cheryl to
turn them back on so I could test the fan..

And to my horror I heard the distinctive sound of a roomful
of computers being deprived of power..

She had turned off the main fuse instead.

Oh what fun I had getting the unix and NT boxes back up and fully
working. Given that this was pre-journalling filesystem days..

Phil

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Phil Launchbury, Network & Infrastructure PHB
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My Mum id that a few times when my Dad was working on the electrics.
He got into the habit of switching the breakers off and then putting
the cover back on the fuse box and screwing it down.

 

UPS; YKIMS. You've probably got one or two now, though.

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Dave

GS 850 x2 / SE 6a
SbS#6 DIAABTCOD#16 APOSTLE#6 FUB#3
FUB KotL OSOS#12? UKRMMA#19

 

ISTR a story (in here?) of someone doing that to a wood pulper,
unfortunately while two fellahs was inside cleaning it.

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| ___ Salad Dodger
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_/_____\_ GL1500SEV/CBR1100XXX/KH500A8/TS250C
|_\_____/_| ..62743../..14719.../..3157./.19406
(>|_|_|<) TPPFATUICG#7 DIAABTCOD#9 YTC#4 PM#5
|__|_|__| BOTAFOT #70 BOTAFOF #09 two#11 WG*
\ |^| / IbW#0 & KotIbW# BotTOS#6 GP#4
\|^|/ ANORAK#17
'^'

 

Herself cleaned the hob the other day. Water everywhere. I'm up here
doing this.

All of a sudden, like, everything goes off.

Wander downstairs, ask what she's done (turned on the back/right hob
ring), so I'm off out to the garage, flick back breaker. (It's
raining, and I'm in me socks)

Walk back indoors, just in time to watch her turn the hob on *again*.

Apparently she thought I'd "fixed" it.

Women.
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| ___ Salad Dodger
|/ \
_/_____\_ GL1500SEV/CBR1100XXX/KH500A8/TS250C
|_\_____/_| ..62743../..14719.../..3157./.19406
(>|_|_|<) TPPFATUICG#7 DIAABTCOD#9 YTC#4 PM#5
|__|_|__| BOTAFOT #70 BOTAFOF #09 two#11 WG*
\ |^| / IbW#0 & KotIbW# BotTOS#6 GP#4
\|^|/ ANORAK#17
'^'

 

As I heard it a papermill, someone outside restored power whilst
cleaning was in progress. This was mentioned on an electrical safety
course so may have been apocryphal.

 

In steve auvache triped:

Ain't progress great - in the old days you could fit the fuses in your
pockets but today no bugger makes pockets big enough for ELCB fitted
consumer units

 

Most new units contain a nice little switchfuse which you can remove and
keep in your pocket.
An ELCB? RCD's where it's at now, man.

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Dave

GS 850 x2 / SE 6a
SbS#6 DIAABTCOD#16 APOSTLE#6 FUB#3
FUB KotL OSOS#12? UKRMMA#19

 

Only one - and the battery has just died :-(

Phil

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Phil Launchbury, Network & Infrastructure PHB
Triumph Tiger 955i
"I'm training the bats who live in my cubicle
to juggle mushrooms"
Remove sick person to email me

 

The batteries for those things are a total ripoff - when mine pegs it, I
intend to wire up a lead acid battery instead.

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Dave

GS 850 x2 / SE 6a
SbS#6 DIAABTCOD#16 APOSTLE#6 FUB#3
FUB KotL OSOS#12? UKRMMA#19