Is there a reason why all conventional domestic electrical wiring fittings use exclusively slotted screw heads, rather than the much more practical Phillips or Pozidrive heads? Don't tell me that electricians can only carry one screwdriver?
You've never met an old fashioned public sector clerk of works have you ?
I know of at least one acute district hospital where every single accessory screw was moved from horizontal to vertical slot position at his insistence - he even had an argument that vertical was better if condensation was likely to be present - I gave up arguing in the end and just paid the lads to go around adjusting the screws on weekends - I was the guy that told them all "put them in horizontal" in the works information packs - neatly stenciled on every layout drawing in my own fair hand, at the instruction of the principal engineer !!
Same guy who told me to wire every circuit using the phase colours - so a lighting circuit on L3 would be blue and black fixed wiring and brown and blue on the flexible wiring (back in the day when we put a conduit box above a luminaire with porcelain connects to terminate the fixed wiring to the HR Flex connected to the luminaire terminals. It was wrong even then, but was a well used urban myth that it should be that way.
You've never met an old fashioned public sector clerk of works have you ?
I know of at least one acute district hospital where every single accessory screw was moved from horizontal to vertical slot position at his insistence - he even had an argument that vertical was better if condensation was likely to be present - I gave up arguing in the end and just paid the lads to go around adjusting the screws on weekends - I was the guy that told them all "put them in horizontal" in the works information packs - neatly stenciled on every layout drawing in my own fair hand, at the instruction of the principal engineer !!
Same guy who told me to wire every circuit using the phase colours - so a lighting circuit on L3 would be blue and black fixed wiring and brown and blue on the flexible wiring (back in the day when we put a conduit box above a luminaire with porcelain connects to terminate the fixed wiring to the HR Flex connected to the luminaire terminals. It was wrong even then, but was a well used urban myth that it should be that way.
