Recent content by Carter

Don't forget that if you're thinking of discrete components, Ins reistance + Loop Imp/PFC + RCD testers as opposed to a single multi-function device then you are also going to have to stump up the calibration fee for each seperate bit of test kit rather than just one. I suppose if the units...

Big thumbs up to Davethe glitz for his recommendation of the Yamaha Pacifica in any of its incarnations. They are a top piece of kit, for the money you won't get better unless you get lucky with a classified ad or something. And just to prove it I bought the twelve string version ('****bly')...

Would appreciate it if you could find them Mike.

Shouldn't the functional conductors brought to the socket's second 'hi-integ' terminals be cream coloured? V good explanation of the subject Spec Loc.Applaud Smiley Back to the mobile, would it be possible to source an 'off-standard' plug/skt combination, physically to prevent any other...

Ah OK! Should be active now. Blushing

Well it's not quite the case is it. I've read this pdf and it essentially reduces to the UK (having been presented with a fait accompli...Blushing) knocking the continental's heads together saying... and I can certainly testify to the chaotic use of colours deployed in Italian machine tools! but...

Hey mate

Oh God there's more??? :(

The clue is in the use of the term "harmonisation" a classic piece of EU wonk-speak and a dead giveaway as to the instigators. It's all part of the hateful process of "ever greater union" that is writ large through every piece of legislation, diktat and directive the is imposed on us from...

I'm going on this post. I have on occasion resorted to lightly dressing the brick back with a sharp floorboard chisel where it's been necessary to take off chunks of mortar or the odd bit of inclusion that sticks out from the face of the brick. If I hit crap mortar lines and suchlike under...

Task-Running conduit and pyros along the horizontal purlins holding the cladding to a warehouse 25ft up. tower? no, skyjack? no, double extension? ****** that too heavy, the solution? Pocket jammed full of saddles, other one full of caddy-clips, gob full of 2BA pinz'n'nuts, drill llashed to...

Yep, plenty of activity, keeps things fresh and taxes the brain & memory. I do! ditto that, thanks chap/ettes

Precisely, that's why I asked. You'd think there'd be some form of feedback cct for just such an eventuality. Yer man seems to have an extremely basic installation on his hands and that's being generous. Sure it isn't just a run of frost protection tape (current self limiting) run under a...

As the septic one says, placcy patresses aren't the best thing to be fixing to bare brickwork. They dont respond well to being flexed when pulled back to an uneven surface by screws, washers notwithstanding. Unless you can land them on a whole brick and it's smooth and not one of those 'riven'...

Oh that poor old 'stat. What was the guy thinking???? I take max current values in things like stats and timeswitches with a huge pinch of salt unless I can actually see the contacts for myself. Oftentimes you find a poxy little micro-switch is in fact the switching element and it hasn't a hope...