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It's a funny old life.

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A holiday chalet family asked the site manager why there was a red “FAIL, DO NOT USE” sticker on their bedroom infra red wall heater.

He said that the electrician had found a chalet fault whilst it was undergoing an inspection and test.

They said that they had not called upon an electrician. What was going on?

I had carried out the inspection and test after the manager had given me the chalet number and key for the chalet.

I had found that the wall heater was not earthed. 

I had also found that a ring final circuit had an end to end C.P.C. reading of 16 Ohms.

The site manager had given me the wrong chalet to test and the wrong key. He had mixed two up.

But if he hadn't  done that the faults would still be there unfound and unreported.

I come across much D.I.Y. dodgy work.

It's a funny old life innit?

 

Z.

 

 

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    Don’t you know we’ve gone back to the 1970’s before we joined the EU?

    Back in the 1970’s my mate had to take his Audi car off the road to rob it of its oil pressure switch to repair the combine harvester, because there weren’t any in stock anywhere within reasonable distance within the UK to be able to pick one up and delivery from Germany took a few days.

    I have a small Makita cordless recipe saw, I have broken the blade clamp a few times, it’s just a small aluminium moulding that secures either a sabre saw blade or a jigsaw blade, the clamps are small. I have bought replacements from a Makita dealer in Estonia through EBay at a very reasonable price including postage and packing, the last time I ordered two so I currently have a spare because I knew Brexit was happening.

    They are still available, but postage and packing is now £41.99 on top of the £17.92 for the clamp, I have the spare clamp on my desk as part of the untidy clutter my wife complains about, I showed her the clamp and explained it’s worth nearly sixty quid and that’s why it is where I know it is.

    https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/202372497329

    @Chris Pearson you are thinking like a millennial, the generation that thinks they can click on a website and have thinks delivered tomorrow and installed as well if required, the generation that has never had anyone say “No” to them, that’s so year before last you now have to plan and book ahead; and accept that people will say no to you.

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    Don’t you know we’ve gone back to the 1970’s before we joined the EU?

    Back in the 1970’s my mate had to take his Audi car off the road to rob it of its oil pressure switch to repair the combine harvester, because there weren’t any in stock anywhere within reasonable distance within the UK to be able to pick one up and delivery from Germany took a few days.

    I have a small Makita cordless recipe saw, I have broken the blade clamp a few times, it’s just a small aluminium moulding that secures either a sabre saw blade or a jigsaw blade, the clamps are small. I have bought replacements from a Makita dealer in Estonia through EBay at a very reasonable price including postage and packing, the last time I ordered two so I currently have a spare because I knew Brexit was happening.

    They are still available, but postage and packing is now £41.99 on top of the £17.92 for the clamp, I have the spare clamp on my desk as part of the untidy clutter my wife complains about, I showed her the clamp and explained it’s worth nearly sixty quid and that’s why it is where I know it is.

    https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/202372497329

    @Chris Pearson you are thinking like a millennial, the generation that thinks they can click on a website and have thinks delivered tomorrow and installed as well if required, the generation that has never had anyone say “No” to them, that’s so year before last you now have to plan and book ahead; and accept that people will say no to you.

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