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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: rawsondsr on 30 January 2009, 22:30:00
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Todays top tip!
When drilling holes in walls, don't hit the hidden wires! :o
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bet it made you jump
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who turned out the lights :) :) :)
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;D
A few weeks ago i was decorating the bedroom....
Moved the furniture and revealed an old socket,the type that looks like a standard plug socket but is just a switch,It was for the old heating system(storage type)
I decides to take it away,gets my old man over who gets out his fancy multimeter and declares "its dead"
I goes to the fuse box and turns off the breaker for sockets
Back up,unscrews the front pulls the wires out a bit and unscrews it from the wall........
Pulls the plastic casing outward to pull the wires through the hole in the bottom of the case.........
BANG!!!!
Jeezo,i sh*t myself!! a big blue flash and a burnt mark on the carpet and wallpaper!!
My old mans reaction(from outside the bedroom,after he had ran like a scolded cat)
" i wonder if i had my meter on the right setting? that wasn't dead son"
NO REALLY!!! :o :o
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When I used to go in customer houses, that was a fairly regular occurance. Always made the assumption that mains cables where vertical or horizontal, but a surprising number are diagonal! Cable testers back then were pointless.