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Right ... Just been nudged to set this up by Paul.M and sounds a good idea following recent threads I've done in the Arms..

Rules....No Offensive material... edit if required before posting as this is the public arena.
Anything to do with the trade or in and around it ...H&S pic's welcome.

Beware plumbers!!!.jpg

I've posted this a few times and this is at a mates house following a kitchen refirb several yrs ago. :eek:mg_smile:

Beware plumbers!!!.jpg
 
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No instructions I'm afraid. I had a quick look online for Volex VT1108 Protector RCD but couldn't find anything useful.
Owner been in house 5 years and had CU dual RCD upgrade done, but this RCD unit and power shower was put in sometime before, by looks about 10yrs ago. Messrs Shower and CU clearly hadn't tested this socket when they did their work, tut tut. I found another one of these RCD on ebay with exactly the same earth design, so it's not a one off :)
 
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Hopefully one us will realise the reason for this obviously intentional feature and then we can all kick ourselves for not thinking of it sooner!
 
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It looks to me like that is the functional earth, so you have an option to remove it.

In the dim distant past i remember trying to install one of these (Volex?) RCD FCUs. It was a slightly different design and the instructions had been copied so many times they were unreadable. IIRC the RCD would trip under load if you earthed the wrong terminal. It was a pile of poo then, and it seems that time has not improved anything.....
 
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Looks to me as though it was one piece of sheet metal with a joggle between the two levels just next to the top earth terminal. Could be that the metal has fractured at the bends and a piece has fallen out. Pretty bad manufacturing. Bends too tight or metal is the wrong grade and not sufficiently malleable.
 
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HandySparks said:
Looks to me as though it was one piece of sheet metal with a joggle between the two levels just next to the top earth terminal. Could be that the metal has fractured at the bends and a piece has fallen out. Pretty bad manufacturing. Bends too tight or metal is the wrong grade and not sufficiently malleable.
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It's intentional. The other terminal is even marked up differently
 
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It's the in-thing now the rust-bucket look. There's companies specialising in doing rust effect paint jobs. Some of the American pick-ups look pretty good. Not sure about this one though!
 
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DPG said:
It's the in-thing now the rust-bucket look. There's companies specialising in doing rust effect paint jobs. Some of the American pick-ups look pretty good. Not sure about this one though!
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Yeah, I've also seen houses clad in rusty tin sheets, million pound properties that look like rusty old farm sheds! The world has gone mad!
 
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westward10 said:
Saw this in Port Talbot couple of weeks back and it is not dumped it actually runs, not electrical but was wondering if SparkyChick has an MOT for it.:D

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How could you publish my numberplate??? The only identifying feature of my vehicle, now everyone will know what car I'm driving ;)
 
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