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very nice thanks no too expensiveLol not a bad wine Pete
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very nice thanks no too expensiveLol not a bad wine Pete
this is posh . 1 bottle sold for $500,000 in 1992:Lol not a bad wine Pete
I'll always remember one of the first jobs I was left alone to do when I was still an apprentice. Needed to rip out the kitchen electrics so started by knocking off the whole place at the main switch (the flat was empty). Live dead live. Good to go...
First socket I come to I'm unscrewing the terminals and out pop the cables... BANG!
Called the gaffer (he was in one of the other flats), he was livid, stupid blimmin' apprentice can't even turn off the sockets! He comes over to sort my mess out.
Turns out all the kitchen sockets were fed from the flat downstairs. My VDE screwdriver most likely saved my life.
I did (at least I though I had at the time), at the board.Shows the importance of performing safe isolation first.
I did (at least I though I had at the time), at the board.
But yeah, you're right.
If you didn't have insulated tools there would be nothing for Tool Tarts to collect.i'm a fan of insulated tools for all occasions, watched one of my best mates put a none insulated screwdriver through a hole of a fuse carrier in a 3P DB.
don't know why he did it and nor does he, he was only meant to be pulling the fuses to isolate the fire pumps, he just had a moment of madness.
thankfully he's never done anything as bone since then; and the look of shear terror he had on his face after he received a belt has always served as a stark reminder of why we take electrical safety seriously...
over 20 years later we still give him sh@t about it.
Sadly it is not just a joke:We use insulated tools for the same reason we prove dead after isolation.
Because "I thought it wasn't live" makes a shitty tombstone.
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