Recent content by Kurt

Europe has divided Labour and Tory for as long as i can remember. The arguments Ted uses could be coming out of the mouth of Corbyn and Foots from Farage.  Anyway we are out now, so at least half the argument goes away. What was interesting is that the 3 institutions of Brussels have not...

Not familiar with that type of system but if you were purely SE and earned £700/w you would take home roughly £550 after TAX and NI

the whole idea of universal credit is that it is very good at managing situations where people work for bits and bobs within a month. employers using RTI to put your PAYE into the system and you get benefits automatically calculated so you can goo from job to job. If you resign from a job its...

I draw the line when breakers are installed in both configurations on the same board. came across it on a Hager TP board. It really does my head in to see MCBs installed like that.

My suggestion is to be upfront about you current experience and let them know you are willing to learn as its your career development plan. If you get an interview, see if you can get a tour of the plant.  You will probably see general power distribution for lighting and power for machinery...

Last week got home, late, tired and emotional and Mrs Kurt casually mentions the house tripped. I said what was on at the time, "nothing maybe tumble dryer, it would only reset when i unplugged washer and tumble dryer" - I said you could have told me before i went in the shower....   arrrghhh...

It does remind me of the constant verbal battle i have with some of my "industrial clients" - " i have a new machine coming, can you pre-wire it so that its ready to go when its delivered" me " Its OK i much prefer to wait for the machine to arrive and then i can assess what cct is required"...

Its an Amtech form, same one as i use. 

A water heater on 1mm cable is quite frankly ridiculous. Someone must have connected the heater up, even if it was not there at the time of the wiring. I am trying to imagine why any electrician, knowing there is to be a water heater, would wire one in 1mm cable. Even if he thought hey its on a...

lol

Он хочет снова сделать Россию великой. Звучит это знакомо?

Я думаю, что Путин хочет вернуть СССР, как это было

In 1982 i was sent over to the Mid West Oklahoma to work on our sister plant . Well as a 19 year old i had no fixed ideas on how things should work . In the UK, we had a welder, fitter, electrician, tool fitter, etc etc. When i went to the states i saw the same man, repair a machine and he did...

Think there is a little romance thinking here about the "good old days, when we had unions" I lived and worked through the Thatcher period, miners strike, unions etc and quite frankly the unions were a collection of arrogant bullies who carrotted on the members and intimidated any dissenters...

Since i started in 1980 have seen. 1. RCDs  2. PLCs, MMIs 3. Crazy coloured wiring 4. Plastic rotary isolaters 5. Robots 6. LED lighting 7. Multi function test equipment 8. Inverters for speed / load control 9. Cheap Chinese knock offs 10. Wireless controls 11. Cheap CCTV with...