pink poodle
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At least there is good coin to be made in copper recycling...
Its ok...you're among friends here. You don't need to hide your shame.
Confessions from the fuckwits
- Thread starter moorey
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Tubeless
Likes Bikes and Dirt
Stick it hard up and lick it.
stirk
Burner
It is only common among the fuckwits posting here, I've done worse but yet to do the brake bleed mix up.
Sparky's actually do the brush test, as in quickly brush fingers over wires and you can tell if the bare copper is live, fuck that!
link1896
Mr Greenfield
And a non contact voltage present indicator, commonly called a volt stick, is about 30 bucks
pink poodle
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I was just planning on wearing gum boots and squirting a bolt of piss at it from a safe distance.
Ultra Lord
Hurts. Requires Money. And is nerdy.
when I was an apprentice, the tradie I was with wanted to test if a motor was isolated without getting his meter from the car, so threw a screwdriver into the terminal box. Blew fuck out of the screw driver and destroyed the terminals. 415v doesn’t fuck around.
“Yeah boss it’s hard down to earth, can’t rebuild it”.
Dickhead of the highest degree.
“Yeah boss it’s hard down to earth, can’t rebuild it”.
Dickhead of the highest degree.
Mr Crudley
Glock in your sock
Sure is, who'da thunk an Electrician wouldn't bother with a multimeter when kick arse power is involved. He might be a Darwin Awards contender soon.
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Ultra Lord
Hurts. Requires Money. And is nerdy.
Luckily he’s been gone for a few years.
Dumbarse didn’t realise it was just a controls switch, not a proper ISO switch.......... not to mention ignoring the three points of isolation rule.
Dumbarse didn’t realise it was just a controls switch, not a proper ISO switch.......... not to mention ignoring the three points of isolation rule.
cokeonspecialtwodollars
Fartes of Portingale
Wouldn't trust my life with one of those.
EDIT: Also they don't typically work with DC voltages which can be just as lethal.
The big problem with kick arse power is that you often can't tell it's kick arse until you check it with a meter.
Mr Crudley
Glock in your sock
I think any Electrician has courage. One of those jobs that can kill you easily by something that isn't visible or obvious.
Having air gaps, the fuses/CB in your pocket and the power off has to be help. I'd be a paranoid Electrician.
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Having air gaps, the fuses/CB in your pocket and the power off has to be help. I'd be a paranoid Electrician.
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Ultra Lord
Hurts. Requires Money. And is nerdy.
To be clear I’m not a sparky, just got disconnect reconnect licence and dabble in some things that I shouldn’t, when I need too.
“Gonna need to change that relay mate”
“Okay, which part do I hit with my hammer?”
“Jesus Jim not again”
Generally how it goes #fitterlyf
“Gonna need to change that relay mate”
“Okay, which part do I hit with my hammer?”
“Jesus Jim not again”
Generally how it goes #fitterlyf
Flow-Rider
Burner
I was in an EWP with a sparky that chomped through a 3 phase wire that was live, luckily just blew a big hole in the side cutter jaws. The stupid prick before him some how jammed the isolator switch dial on 180 degrees out and the sparky I was with didn't check that it was dead at the other end.
Did you blokes see in the news that young girl in Perth that got booted by the garden tap from a presumed open neutral fault, just goes to show that RCD's aren't 100% fool proof.
Did you blokes see in the news that young girl in Perth that got booted by the garden tap from a presumed open neutral fault, just goes to show that RCD's aren't 100% fool proof.
cokeonspecialtwodollars
Fartes of Portingale
I've been proper bitten a few times but one of the worst feelings I've had was once when I was in a crawl space and just as I went to twist a connection together the phone in my pocket vibrated.
cokeonspecialtwodollars
Fartes of Portingale
I didn't see the details but an RCD will only ever protect you from a phase to earth fault downstream of the device, phase to neutral, or earth loop fault, etc you're fucked.
EDIT: If it was open neutral and the tap was live then there was no chance an RCD would trip as there wouldn't be a low impedance return path, until she touched the tap that is.
Mr Crudley
Glock in your sock
Fair enough, I almost was going to be an Electrician but ended up in Telecoms instead.
If it is beyond 48VDC then run for your lives
Not that 48VDC can be that forgiving. The stories of the paintcan across the busbars has been heard plenty of times. Sent from my F5121 using Tapatalk
Mr Crudley
Glock in your sock
That is bad timing. I would have been a bit freaked out too.
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pink poodle
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Pretty sure it is. I'll post pics of the triumph to RB post event.