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Confessions of an Electrician...

Lisa Miles

So while we’ve not been able to log into the community (you can do so now if you didn’t already know) I’ve been keeping myself out of mischief Blush by going through some of the discussion topics on the old Wiring Regs forum and came across this one: Walking off site where some of you were sharing stories about your experiences with client's pets while on the job. 


So I thought it would be a bit of fun to ask you to share some of your funny/bizarre or just weird stories (keeping it relatively clean and protecting the privacy of others please!) from any jobs you’ve been on or done.


… And I’ll send some swag to the author of the story that gets voted the ‘Most helpful/liked’ from the community so don't forget to hit that 'Good Answer' link on any that make you chuckle! (Log in required)



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  • I wouldn’t want to make light of the dreadful Llanelli incident, but the  story of Worcester and Owain Glyndŵr, reminded me of this earlier family “setback”.

    On the rebellion of his son Robert of Belleme in 1102, the castle was given to Baldwin de Boulers. It is from Baldwin that Montgomery gets its Welsh name, Trefaldwyn (Baldwin's town). The de Boulers (later known as Bowdler) family held the castle until 1215, when the fortress was destroyed by Prince Llywelyn ab Iorwerth.  


    Seeing a Top Gear episode (redundant power station) a couple of weeks ago reminded me of an incident from my apprenticeship.  I was called to a problem with an overhead travelling crane that had stopped working.  There were a number of emergency stop buttons and all the travel limits were also normally closed contacts in series. So I checked every one, including climbing aloft to check the travel limit switches - all OK! After about an hour, I still hadn’t noticed that on the bottom of the hand-held pendant controller there was also a partly concealed emergency stop button. This latched when pressed and had to be rotated to reset. Problem solved!  Returning for a cup of tea, the mechanical fitter using the crane came running in - its failed again! This time being wiser, I checked the stop button first and gave it back to the Fitter. He took the pendant controller and rested it on his beer gut which activated the stop button on the bottom! 


    Less funny, I was asked at one stage to cut off some "redundant" 3 phase 415v cables. Luckily steel wire armoured cable and fused at about 20 amps, so the flash only took a chunk out of my Hacksaw Blade and nothing went in my eye.  
         

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  • I wouldn’t want to make light of the dreadful Llanelli incident, but the  story of Worcester and Owain Glyndŵr, reminded me of this earlier family “setback”.

    On the rebellion of his son Robert of Belleme in 1102, the castle was given to Baldwin de Boulers. It is from Baldwin that Montgomery gets its Welsh name, Trefaldwyn (Baldwin's town). The de Boulers (later known as Bowdler) family held the castle until 1215, when the fortress was destroyed by Prince Llywelyn ab Iorwerth.  


    Seeing a Top Gear episode (redundant power station) a couple of weeks ago reminded me of an incident from my apprenticeship.  I was called to a problem with an overhead travelling crane that had stopped working.  There were a number of emergency stop buttons and all the travel limits were also normally closed contacts in series. So I checked every one, including climbing aloft to check the travel limit switches - all OK! After about an hour, I still hadn’t noticed that on the bottom of the hand-held pendant controller there was also a partly concealed emergency stop button. This latched when pressed and had to be rotated to reset. Problem solved!  Returning for a cup of tea, the mechanical fitter using the crane came running in - its failed again! This time being wiser, I checked the stop button first and gave it back to the Fitter. He took the pendant controller and rested it on his beer gut which activated the stop button on the bottom! 


    Less funny, I was asked at one stage to cut off some "redundant" 3 phase 415v cables. Luckily steel wire armoured cable and fused at about 20 amps, so the flash only took a chunk out of my Hacksaw Blade and nothing went in my eye.  
         

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