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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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  • Gosh,

    At our school Latin was not a subject taught to the masses. But by the time I got there it was a dead language. I thought I was old but some of you must be ancient if they taught latin.

    Big 4 on the forge, soldering with lumps of copper heated by gas stove burners, acid baths and the like.

    I always enjoyed the metalwork teacher`s method of lighting them.

    Animal glue for woodwork, hot guey stuff that smelt and got everywhere.

    A motor and hand crank with a dangling lead that had a spark plug on the end. Effective and enhanced my enthusiasm in electrickery.

    We even had an out of hours computer club which was not much more than building logic gates from transitors and applying truth tables.

    No H & S there, you were allowed to kill/maim yourself or others if you liked to but were given a few rules to help avoid it.

    The big incentive was the headmaster`s cane - a fearsome article - if you killed or chopped a leg of little Freddie Jones you would be sent to the head for the cane, probably deterent enough back then.

    Drugs were pretty much unheard of back then (save having a ciggy though!)  and real money £ s d  changing to that decimal stuff not long before I left. Happy days
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  • Gosh,

    At our school Latin was not a subject taught to the masses. But by the time I got there it was a dead language. I thought I was old but some of you must be ancient if they taught latin.

    Big 4 on the forge, soldering with lumps of copper heated by gas stove burners, acid baths and the like.

    I always enjoyed the metalwork teacher`s method of lighting them.

    Animal glue for woodwork, hot guey stuff that smelt and got everywhere.

    A motor and hand crank with a dangling lead that had a spark plug on the end. Effective and enhanced my enthusiasm in electrickery.

    We even had an out of hours computer club which was not much more than building logic gates from transitors and applying truth tables.

    No H & S there, you were allowed to kill/maim yourself or others if you liked to but were given a few rules to help avoid it.

    The big incentive was the headmaster`s cane - a fearsome article - if you killed or chopped a leg of little Freddie Jones you would be sent to the head for the cane, probably deterent enough back then.

    Drugs were pretty much unheard of back then (save having a ciggy though!)  and real money £ s d  changing to that decimal stuff not long before I left. Happy days
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