Urgent call out .....dinner now in the dog

[telectrix]

my old dad used to say:
"if it's not broke don't fix it. if you can't fix it with a hammer, it's an electrical fault. and if a bent nail can be straightened, why buy new?"

and he made wall plugs by whittling scrap bits of wood; cable clips from a bit of scrap aluminium, cut, nailed, and and wrapped round cable.
the straightened nails were sorted according to size and type and stored in a collection of old jam jars.