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Using like-new items?

Farmboy
What do you think about using used / like-new items (such as CBs), available on sites such as this: https://www.facebook.com/groups/749714058480262/permalink/3026955394089439/

I don't use them myself, just wondering how advisable it is.


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    It is actually very quick nought to sixty, but does sod all after that.


    There comes point where you don't want to be trying to use the van for everything.

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    Were the previous owners Sooty and Sweep ?


    OMS
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    Is that Tonka Toy fitted with the manufacturer's approved cargo net?
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    It may be the company I keep, or my Yorkshire birth, but I have both bought (to use) and sold (written off car ) part-worn tyres, and  have also used both "new old stock"  and 2nd hand parts to effect a repair at times.

    However,  to pass off old as new is fraud, and I'd not want to use anything other than new and unused in any paying job without the recipient fully understanding and agreeing to that being sensible.

    I'd also be very wary of an MCB of unknown history, although in practice I suspect most are very lightly loaded. Things that are easier to inspect or have a lower price of failure, like glass domes for lamps and funny shaped springy  fixing clips for downlighters are more sensible candidates for rescue and re-use from an old one.
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    OMS:

    Were the previous owners Sooty and Sweep ?


    OMS


    LOL.


    A late Saturday night bid on EBay, I was looking for a trailer to go behind my van and given the price of the decent trailers this was a bargain. I then had to persuade my wife to drive to over by Abergavenny to collect it!


    I had a ten minute discussion on the phone with the insurers about the wheels to determine the likelihood of finding the pickup on bricks missing its wheels or if it had been turned into a monster truck, both highly unlikely scenarios, but what happens when things aren't swapped like for like.


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    perspicacious:
    It's a bit like part-worn tyres: who in their right mind would use them?


    Anyone who buys a secondhand car!


    By the same token, a second-hand house has second-hand electrics.


    I have been known to buy edwardian lamp fittings, but always rewired and with a new lamp-holder. Then again, I am not troubled by second-hand plug-in electrical goods such as the ancient desk fan which sits in front of me. It was old when I bought it 40-odd years ago. ?


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    Hi all, well... I asked this question, some months ago, and I feel it's better to use new ones even though not everything can be 100% right. I think we've all changed, something or other, along the way out of the back of our vans.


    regards, Tom
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    Tomgunn:

    Hi all, well... I asked this question, some months ago, and I feel it's better to use new ones even though not everything can be 100% right. I think we've all changed, something or other, along the way out of the back of our vans.


    regards, Tom




    Sorry T, I wasn't trying to steal your thunder (I should've done a forum search first). I just came across the site and thought it's not a good idea to use acquired used goods such as CBs as, other than a simple functional test, I couldn't verify their effectiveness in fault conditions, so wanting to sleep at night, I'd never do it. It could be argued what's the difference between a faulty new device and a faulty used device, as they're both dysfunctional, but at least I'd installed the new one in good faith - unless as others have said, declare it to the owner, but I wouldn't like to install it then either.


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    Sparkingchip:

    LOL.


    A late Saturday night bid on EBay, I was looking for a trailer to go behind my van and given the price of the decent trailers this was a bargain. I then had to persuade my wife to drive to over by Abergavenny to collect it!

     



    Ahhhh - North of the M4 - never trust no b***** North of the M4, they'll sell you a Sooty van ?


    Regards


    OMS
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    To put that into perspective, I've used a number of second hand Air Circuit Breakers and MCCB's in larger sizes as stop gap replacements on main switchgear, where new replacements are not available. 


    All clearly visible to a client though when faced with £1million for a complete new switchboard or £30K to get back in business until a planned replacement switchboard can be arranged.


    It's perfectly feasible to physically inspect and injection test larger CB's


    The same could be said for transformers, HV switchgear etc


    Have I ever run on part worn tyres - yes, when they were better than the ones on the car, and I was skint


    Regards


    OMS


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