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Philip
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And the humour is where exactly?
Brian
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It shows a jack plug, such as that used with electric guitars and PA equipment, connected via a short piece of audio coax cable to a piece of mains flex using a choc block. One only hopes it wasn't used to carry mains.
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Done that many times to make am emeregebcy (guitar) loudspeaker cable.
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In message , Brian Gaff writes
Without knowing for what purpose it was being used and what was on the other end of the cable it is hard to condemn it. Is there a description on the site of where it was found?
It is a stereo 1/4" jack plug with a short length of 2 core, probably screened, audio cable attached to a length of white 2 core cable,
2182Y or similar. I have a few leads that look basically the same for joining PA speakers together. Although mine use 3 core 13A cable as it was all I had to hand at the time and I just use 2 of the cores, I have no issues at all with these.I have heard stories of aerial riggers, big towers, not TVs and chimneys, having mains soldering irons with N plugs fitted and feeding mains up the coax from a similar set up at the bottom of the tower. How true these stories are I have no idea as I've never met one that would admit it, but that may just be down to Darwin having been proved right.
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Quire, its improvisation, not a bodge. Personally I wouldn't have bothered with the chock-block, just twist and tape. I have a crafty tapeing technique where I double the cable back over the joint so their is no strain.
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Thats because the picture was taken by a PAT tester who knows bugger all.
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In message , Graham. writes
I take it there's no connection between poster and website ...
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and post a link to an image that has no parent from the site linked..... main failure of the pic appears to be using a jack rather than speakon but anyway Cow PAT have a list of pat testing domains listed at base of their freshly registered new one, would have thought PAT testing as a singular service was bit like trying to Energy Performance Certificates, had its day.
Cheers Adam
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Agreed.
Follow your nose from the first link the OP posted. There are far worse examples. The best I think is a 4 way extension block with several adapters pluged in a plug with one pin not in the adapter and a bare end flex stuffed into the L and N holes and the E wire neatly coiled up.
The in use plugs without top gets boring after a while.
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En el artículo , Dave Liquorice escribió:
Do bear wires shit in the woods?
... and another pic is captioned "insultation tape". Could be :)
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On the main part of the page in the /first/ link the OP posted, namely:
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"All our Engineers are qualified to the industry recognised City & Guilds 2377 standards"
Yet another misuse of the word Engineer
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Any body who does anything vaugely "technical" is an engineer these days. A best these people are technicians but a better classification could well be operator.
A technician should understand what and why they doing something and be able to make accurate assesments of different situations.
An operator presses the button and records the result.
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Is that a polite word for monkey?
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Engineers design things that haven't been designed before. Technicians fiddle with designs that exist already and mechanics fix them when they break.
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That's because all the fitters "became" technicians so the technicians got pissed off and because "engineers".
But I agree - engineers design stuff.
They could go for the term "inspector" - fancy but vaguely accurate.
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You could reasonably go as far as saying that engineers also, given a set of standard designs or methodologies, choose the most appropriate one and find a solution for a particular problem.
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Possibly. Its not the newness of the methodology, its the newness of the design.
Any fool can add go faster stripes to a porsche. Coiming up with the portsche in teh first place.....
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Engineering also includes coming up with an efficient cost effective solution to a problem