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  1. streetlighter

    Lamp Post Repair

    Try the post and column company based in winsford or Charles en Direct they make the flexable replacement column doors
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    17Th Edition Meters Aarghh

    I used to have a Kewtech KT61 issued to me by my old employer to replace my separates ( BM223, LT5 ) and it was bloody awful to use when testing Ze on DNO streetlight cutouts if the loop impedance was very low it would just display 0.00 where my old tester would give me a value say 0.05 also I...
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    Megger Bm200 Faded Screen

    Bought one of these on eBay last month and the display is very faint it will just about show the >999 and the analogue arc is even harder to make out. Would this be an expensive repair and is it worth doing ? Tester has had new batterys fitted
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    Y Plan Pump Overun

    Yes ive had this before where the existing boiler was replaced Y plan control wiring and a separate cable had to be installed from the boiler to the pump. in the base of the boiler was a removable terminal block kinda like a big black plug with terminals  for boiler supply LN pump LN and switch...
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    Dish Tuning

    When you change a single LNB to a twin/quad the Elevation angle of the dish will need to be raised slightly as the new LNB is heavier and will drag the feed arm down slightly. There where some FTA satellite kits sold a few years back under the fortec star brand where the LNB needed skewing (...
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    Terminating swa picture guide

    See some intresting methods on the highways the old favourite seems to be the BS951 clamps wrapped around the armour of the cable, but the other one ive seen is the steel strands twisted together and put into a connector block. then ive seen a few old install where there is no connection to the...
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    Blimey Prices Are Dropping!

    Ive herd stories in my area of £800 3 bed house rewires apparently they guy floods it with labour and is doing about three a week ! An elederly client was quite proud of the fact the lads doing the council rewires on the estate did his house in two weekends for £750 ! It looked a bloody mess...
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    Elex 2003 Event City.....well That's 2 Hours Of My Life I'll Never Get Back

    Told the guys at Armeg i want a long insulated 4mm terminal driver and a small 2.5mm terminal driver that wont snap the first time i use the thing. Spent far too much money at ELEX but ****** it a bit of retail therapy and where contemplating Coventry in September
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    Rcd Spurs

    You Could always change the 3036 fuse for a plug-in type MCB on a Wylex unit gets around the issue of the 1mm cpc
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    Help Me Identify A Failed Accessory (Fcu)

    I know one thing when my stocks of MK are used up i wont be replacing them. Crabtree all the way for me nicer terminals in the switches and sockets
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    Street Furniture- Lighting Columns. Rcd Protection

    Your very welcome ive done the highways for over ten years now ive worked for several local authoritys and contractors. When it comes to highway lighting power suppies ive fitted nearly all the different makes of cutout/isolator units Lucy,Tofco, Charles en direct and the TSS ones you dont see...
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    All Ways Having To Pay Out

    My old works van a 57 plate Vivaro had an intresting fault where you could be stopped at the lights waiting to go then when you wanted to move nothing happend unless you revved the balls out of it then it would creep forward slowly until it got going a bit. Also had the problem with it loosing...
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    New Glass Sheild (Son Floodlight)

    If you need to hire a cherrypicker in the northwest area try Peter douglass platforms in Bredbury nr Stockport. Or highland access in trafford park
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    Ccnsg (Safety Passport)

    Mine expired in March would have renwed it if i had the money, used to be called a Scats card as i was told and you need it to get onto certain industrial sites. I had to get mine in 2010 when the firm i was working for had a contract relamping the road lighting at stanlow and tranmere oil...
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    Street Furniture- Lighting Columns. Rcd Protection

    No RCD required if the disconnection times can be met only times ive installed RCD protection on the highways is for the supply to the commando sockets fixed to lamp columns to supply the festive lighting. Most councils now specify 3-core SWA cable for there private supply networks so you get...
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    Out Side Light

    When you say lamp post ie lighting column what kind is it the modern type thats been painted and fitted with an embelishment kit to look old or the old cast type ? Is there a service door at the base with a wooden backing board to fix a suitable isolator to ? Normally on the newer columns...
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    Help Me Identify A Failed Accessory (Fcu)

    Knightsbridge are utter crap i get them supplied by a landlord i work for who insist on buying his own materials from his mate down the road So thats the mentiond switches and sockets and lovely Chint plastic consumer units ! The sockets feel very cheap and nasty the same with the light...
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    Vehicle Inspection Pits - Regulations

    I had loads of issues with inspection pits at my previous employer mainly that the installation in the pit was both usuitable for the the enviroment and in my view unsafe. They had Ip66 fittings screwed to the sides of the pit with light guage PVC tube between them with singles inside. My veiw...
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    Sbs Trade Sales

    I think the units cost between £160-200 each that's only a rough idea from a chat with a council official a few years back
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