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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)



  • I rather hope there is room in our hearts for electrical matters, which is my (flakey) understanding.


    Where is someone who went to a public school and did Latin when you need one eh?


    (Imagine the scene in the film, fast moving Car with flashing Lights screeches to a halt - " let me through, I did Latin at school"  - never happens does it,  bit like 

    ' it's an emergency, get me a Poet on the line as soon as you can ')
  • I went to a County High school, my wife went to a girls grammar school, the one thing that we have in common about our school years is that we both had the same Latin teacher, he left the school I went to and moved on to teach my future wife at her school. 


    But don't ask either of us to translate for you. 


    Andy B
  • Former Community Member
    Former Community Member
    You also both got married on the same day and in the same place!


    Regards


    BAD

  • Lisa Miles:




    Chris Pearson:



    Isn't that what forums are about? ?


    Not necessarily Chris... Depends on the style of forum and how well it's maintained/moderated. Going 'off-topic' or hijacking someone else's thread on a forum to discuss something unrelated to the OP's question is considered really bad forum etiquette... ? 


    Thank you, Headmistress, but I think of a forum as being like a chat in a pub, or perhaps folk chatting in the margins at a conference or Elex. Once the main topic has been discussed, the conversation goes off wherever it will. ?


  • mapj1:

    Where is someone who went to a public school and did Latin when you need one eh?




    Flagrantly ignoring the Headmistress's admonition about thread drift, I take it, Mike, that you are young enough not to have required Latin in order to matriculate?


    Didn't OMS admit to studying Latin?


    Back to the OP. OK, OK, I confess to having taken (and like BS 7671, passed) Latin O-level. ?

  • Former Community Member
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    I think that OMS did spend some time in the same school I went to, so as he is a little tad senior to me, he may well have, because I did!

    All I can remember is

    Amo

    Amas

    Amat

    Amumus

    Amatis

    Amant


    And the spelling is probably wrong!


     I had the the lowest exam mark in my life for my final Latin exam!
  • Ancilla facta pepererit per translating potentia Google


    Legh
  • Recently I have described our school metalwork room to a few people, the mention of the blacksmiths forge, aluminium smelter, acid bath for cleaning the metal prior to enamelling, plus assorted machinery raises comments about health and safety which were never commented on at the time.


    It was a full educational experience, English, French, German, Russian and Latin and art were on offer with woodwork, metalwork, technical drawing for the lads, typing and domestic science for the girls, plus the usual maths, geography, biology, PE, and so on, as well as the less usual human biology, economics, and of course country dancing.

    Some of the first electric violins were knocked up in our schools technical block.


     Andy B

  • My youngsters are at a comprehensive school where the metalwork shop has a forge, a selection of small lathes, pillar drills etc.  as well as 3d printer and a laser cutter for acrylic and thin wood. Yes, only the sensible ones get to use all the kit, but it is there, and very much in use.  Not all of the country has gone H and S mad.
  • 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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