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Try BeWiser insurance thats who i am with thanks to the missus making inquiries with other companies. Im 28 and paying just over £1000 fully comp on an 11 plate 1.3 Vauxhall Combo van.

Be a few more Haldo pillars for me to connect when they roll these things out !

Sometimes the best stuff is kept in the clearance bins in the Tradepoint(less) area. Ive had a few good bargains out of them like brand new Sky Digiboxes for £10 ! That made for a tidy profit on the bay

Seems to be a DNO/REC thing coiling the tails they usually to it when they connect our downleads in lamp coulmns in the areas that dont fit isolator units with tails. Make a right bloody mess of the twin and earth cable too ! Usually the sheathing stripped to top of column door then springy live...

Cant help myself when its a good deal ! If we dont use it in six months time its on eBay !

Thanks for the scans would love to see the rest of the magazines

I have a Bosch 115mm angle grinder it came from Axminster power tools cost just under £50 and came in a carry case with a diamond cutting disc thrown in too.

Did a quote last week for a security floodlight and noticed the potential client still had the old Wylex wooden backed CU so advised them about the potential dangers and that an upgrade to a modern unit with RCD protection would be advisable gave them a price and was told they had been quoted...

Any chance of a few scans from them ?

Great cable to work with looks very smart when neatly clipped and dressed. With my old firm did some LED feature lighting on the Northgate and Eastgate rows in Chester and the conservation officer insisted on black and white sheathed pyro being used to blend in with the building features.

Im sick of being stuck in traffic Mon-Fri im working for a firm in Trafford Park takes me 40 mins in the morning and nearly two hours on the way home, i hate driving on motorways so come off at Eccles and go down the A57 through Warrington home to Widnes.

My local B&Q stores have the MK masterseal range on clearance so im sure all the branches will be the same. I picked up a couple of the switched fused spurs for £4.98 each and a couple of the White RCD sockets for £10 each down from £67 ! They had other items in the range on clearance too...

Last week we where browsing in B&Q they had they xmas deals on power and hand tools in the seasonal area, I treated Mrs Streetlighter to a JCB toolbag on Wheels looks a bit like a suit case and has a retractable handle. Would probably make a very good suitcase too seems to be quite robust...

Been wondering about this for ages as ive removed a fair few of them that have been fitted in the Wylex units, Sorry if the question has been asked before. Im guessing mid to late 70s and made until the late 80s when the swich types came out ?

For being on call for Cheshire street lighting i used to get

I've been to a property in the past with exactly the same problem and solution by the DIYer who lost the covers for two units, wish I'd taken a picture nice cabinet high up on living room wall opened it to find a Crabtree star breaker unit with no cover and a nice shines exposed busbar. Second...

It's a common find on old highway lighting installs to find split concentric cable used instead of SWA. Only tends to be found in board supply columns on new installations.

My Bosch Gsb18-2-LI combi drill has developed a fault where when you change from speed 1 to 2 the drill makes a grinding noise and the bit refuses to spin. Also one of the battery packs will not hold a charge properly, have had Mrs email Bosch awaiting response bearing in mind drill isn't even...

After this evenings job I must remember to stock up on 28watt 2D lamps. It's always the way that what you need is never on the van

There more expensive than Neweys lol !