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  1. Manator

    Can I be a electrician after completing level 3 electrical engineering apprenticeship?

    This is why the word electrician is in my opinion greatly misused. The study course you have chosen makes you the ideal candidate to design rather than install. I very much doubt that you would have the core skills to install. I work with a very highly qualified maintenance trained electrician...
  2. Manator

    Per item PAT test charge?

    We have a contract for electrical work for our county council, none of which involves PAT. Most of the call outs I have attended have been amusing, I see green pass stickers everywhere. Fused spurs, socket outlets and even one on a three phase board.The most recent one was a bain marie rated at...
  3. Manator

    Solid fuse links?

    The main fuse should never have a solid link, if it was an old incomer then it is possible that what used to be a neutral fuse is now a solid link. I am confused, a picture would have been good.
  4. Manator

    Wiring a horse solarium and shower.......

    @Canoeboy my wife will not allow me to have a motorbike, I had two when I first met her and she refused point blank to get on one. Strangely enough I have been kicked, thrown, bitten and almost trampled but still love the close bond you get with horses.
  5. Manator

    Wiring a horse solarium and shower.......

    I love horses and would have one in an instant, the only reason I do not have one now is work commitments, and the time I would need to devote to the care of a horse. I miss tacking up and going out for a ride, I was well known in my home town for walking down the main street with my horse...
  6. Manator

    Wiring a horse solarium and shower.......

    I have done similar in dental surgeries when two x ray machines are fitted within the same room. It should be impossible to use both at the same time so I wire change over switches which automatically disconnects all the power to one machine in order to use the other.
  7. Manator

    Wiring a horse solarium and shower.......

    I have grown up all my life with horses, spending a year at Newmarket when I was just 14. I left because being from up north 12 months of abuse is all that we can take! I have owned Arabs (pure bred) and shown in hand, but my all time favourite was a Clydesdale that I owned from a foal to the...
  8. Manator

    As it was Rememberance Day ...

    A few years ago I went to the Menin Gate now that was very moving.
  9. Manator

    lucky escape

    Thanks for sharing. You would have expected the heat to come from a loose connection or the motor itself not the PCB. I wonder how many others may be effected around the country.
  10. Manator

    Please comment on the quality of my electrician's work

    I have to agree with @Lurch, yes it is rough in places but not really rogue trader style.
  11. Manator

    Please comment on the quality of my electrician's work

    This is where they came through the other side of the wall!! I would always advise anyone to get at least three quotes for a job. There is a very good long standing argument for this. Firstly two of the quotes will be very close, and inevitably very much higher than the cheapest. The highest...
  12. Manator

    Please comment on the quality of my electrician's work

    A chase with no wires installed?? I see them below but not down the chase. We should name and shame!!
  13. Manator

    Happy Halloween

    I corrected it for you, lol
  14. Manator

    Happy Halloween

    Happy Halloween everyone, I purchased my pumpkins tonight ready to carve! For all our Welsh members Cyfarchion Calan Gaeaf
  15. Manator

    Is this install method still in use I wonder?

    I have just done a new build very posh office block. Concrete floors but a two foot void and the flooring was metal grid works. No conduit anywhere except the boiler room, all tray and basket. I have however worked in prisons and they still insist in steel conduit buried in concrete.
  16. Manator

    Electrifix 3m galv conduit mis-print?

    3m lengths are rare for me!! Whilst we ask for 4m I am willing to accept that the provided length could be 3.75m.
  17. Manator

    Ex Zones

    Good point Sidewinder.
  18. Manator

    Ex Zones

    As Lurch says there is no legal requirement that all people working within a certain area are fully trained, they do however need to be appropriately supervised. It is however, a companies duty to maintain training skills to ensure their staff are trained to do the work requested.
  19. Manator

    What was number 1 in the UK singles chart the day you were born?

    I have just had a look at mine 18th birthday was Blondie  Heart of Glass 21st birthday was The Jam Town Called Malice
  20. Manator

    What was number 1 in the UK singles chart the day you were born?

    Mine was Elvis Presley Are You Lonesome Tonight
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