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The problem wasn't plastic Cu's as you said it was people doing a poor job and sometimes not tightening terminals correctly. I was taught on my very first job to use a tension screwdriver set to the right setting. My boss for a right one for the little details.plastic CUs don't cause fires. bad workmanship causes fires.
Talking about this point to two joiners this morning "And what if the new metal cases become live like" "think the loose live would be more worrying then the CU being metal rather than plastic "The problem wasn't plastic Cu's as you said it was people doing a poor job and sometimes not tightening terminals correctly. I was taught on my very first job to use a tension screwdriver set to the right setting. My boss for a right one for the little details.
By switching to metal i believe the idea was it would contain any fire better and give people a chance to notice and get out.
This is a troll
Only my opinion but I'd say 6.00pm is a rather unusual time to start a CU change out & then fault finding.
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