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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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  • The Dolphin were a great big case. As I mentioned a toggle switch operated via a string type cord to push/pull and a great big perspex block that had a long coil in it - that was the heating element. They were big numb things even back then but quite popular and not cheap.

     30A jobby and it was often discovered some were wired into an adjacent 13A socket in the nearest bedroom. Ohh dear - but they worked and probably went on like that for years.


    I once ordered a replacement element for one. A few days later a "rep" turned up with one to my business premises asking about a very large electrical contracting company = me (I was not in and I shared my humble workshop with a couple of furniture manufacture/repair guys).

    Halicon days, I must have impressed the tec guy when I ordered the spare. LOL.
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  • The Dolphin were a great big case. As I mentioned a toggle switch operated via a string type cord to push/pull and a great big perspex block that had a long coil in it - that was the heating element. They were big numb things even back then but quite popular and not cheap.

     30A jobby and it was often discovered some were wired into an adjacent 13A socket in the nearest bedroom. Ohh dear - but they worked and probably went on like that for years.


    I once ordered a replacement element for one. A few days later a "rep" turned up with one to my business premises asking about a very large electrical contracting company = me (I was not in and I shared my humble workshop with a couple of furniture manufacture/repair guys).

    Halicon days, I must have impressed the tec guy when I ordered the spare. LOL.
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