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  1. Zeespark

    GEC Compact 45 or 65 Nightstor

    Tried searching online for the manual at all? Andy Guinness
  2. Zeespark

    Are things done differently in your area?

    It was the only time I have seen it done that way Sharpend, I havent really seen it since, and you dont really design house wiring circuits like that, it was just a first for Me, so it seemed a bit odd when I first heard about it. Andy Guinness
  3. Zeespark

    Are things done differently in your area?

    Another one from My airport days, rings were wired with each leg hopping over the next, so that at the end socket there were all short tails, saved pulling one huge tail in if something went wrong apparently. Andy Guinness
  4. Zeespark

    Are things done differently in your area?

    Bluey, is there a CPC being run between accessories on every circuit? Andy Guinness
  5. Zeespark

    Are things done differently in your area?

    Mr Dekeington, I served part of My apprenticeship at Heathrow Airport. The owners at the time, BAA, would read the regs, then go a step higher, ie, 2.5 mm singles for lights, 4mm for sockets, and the fly leads would have to be the same diameter, after second guessing them, I just got on with it...
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    New Member - Advice wanted on home study course I have started

    Save your money, do a part time course in college, the above courses wont give you anywhere near the knowledge you need to become a spark on the theory side of things. Andy Guinness
  7. Zeespark

    Hello, everyone!

    You dint work for Spotco do you Drake? Welcome all the same Andy Guinness
  8. Zeespark

    Help on getting my foot in the electrical door

    Where in the UK are you? ESC Card? CSCS Card? Drivers Licence? Andy Guinness
  9. Zeespark

    Self employment and taxes....

    LTD, It would cost you the fees of an accountant, but you can claim everything, whereas you cant for umbrella, I stand to be corrected if I am wrong. Andy Guinness
  10. Zeespark

    What tools for second fix??

    https://www.screwfix.com/p/stanley-fatmax-backpack/8649k Andy Guinness
  11. Zeespark

    Told one of my jobs was non-compliant & I had ripped off my customer

    It was damned dangerous, I went outside our residential compound to pick up a football, it kicked off an almighty stink with several sections of the government apparently, I was only 7/8 at the time. Andy Guinness
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    Told one of my jobs was non-compliant & I had ripped off my customer

    Where in Pakistan Rob? I was out there 30 years ago as nipper, I have not seen anything like it before or after that trip, and dont even mention potholes, I was in Karachi. Andy Guinness
  13. Zeespark

    Introducing Me.

    Hia Jonathan, Andy here, living not a million miles from you in Boythorpe, just moved from Staveley after 14 years, welcome. Andy Guinness
  14. Zeespark

    VAT ,... possibly the most invasive tax in Britain .

    One of them, a few others, but I stand corrected if wrong, which seems to be My case these days Andy Guinness
  15. Zeespark

    VAT ,... possibly the most invasive tax in Britain .

    VAT is an EU imposed tax, 75% of the 20% that we are charged goes into EU coughers, the other 25% is kept in the UK from what I have read. Andy Guinness
  16. Zeespark

    Memlite Lamp restoration

    Mr Potts, why not give the new fitting a coat of clear lacquor? that way it keeps the part rusted patina, the rusting gets stopped dead as it is, and you stop anything transferred if you were handling it? Andy Guinness
  17. Zeespark

    Was Jessica from Essex I ask?

    Blonde Jessica walks into a pharmacy and asks the pharmacist for some bottom deodorant. The pharmacist, a little bemused, explains to Jessica that they don’t sell anything called bottom deodorant, and never have. Unfazed, Jessica assures him that she has been buying the stuff from this place on...
  18. Zeespark

    Newbie

    Hia Steel, I feel for you, I have done a bit of everything, but try not to do housebashing unless essential. Welcome to the forum. Andy Guinness
  19. Zeespark

    Carillion collapse.

    Because they are seen as 'Too big to fail' Manator. I have worked for them a few times as an apprentice last millennium ago, though I had very few dealings with them, just asked via My charge hand to sort major potential screw ups at Heathrow. Andy Guinness
  20. Zeespark

    A wannabe electrician

    Can I shoot Myself yet? Andy Guinness
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