Elfin safety at B&Q

[Dave Liquorice]

Cheap way to reduce the number that walk I suspect. Send one ex-display off to auction or just bin it rather than have any number walk...

[Dave Liquorice]

Yeah, was it the OP who said it was probably the sales assistant unoffically keeping it back for a friend.

If I'd wanted the tool I would have noted the assistants name, quietly wandered away and found the duty manager to enquire why assistant X wasn't prepared to sell me the tool and if it was policy not to sell for the reasons I had been given why the invitation had been posted in the first place.

[Mark]

Bad move. You can't get spares for these if they are more than a few years old.

This is absolutely normal for instruction manuals these days.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

I'd say fridges are one of the few things that rarely need spares. Or by the time they do few makers would still stock them anyway.

[Pete Verdon]

Highly unlikely. It's perfectly clear what was meant, and courts shouldn't have a problem with it.

I wouldn't expect any chain-store manager to agree to bind his employer to such a contract though.

Pete

[BigWallop]

Spotted the delibarate mestook. ;-]

[BigWallop]

Write 'waver' and the contract will be held void as it doesnt make sense. If its accepted and if the tool injures you you can still sue. However there are other issues with such a contract that make it worthless in reality, and few managers want to enter into murky contracts just for a quick sale of a low value item. A few might though.

NT

OOPS !!! I missed an " i " Silly me. I will right it dine a thighs and times, two help me remember the next time.

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember [e-mail] saying something like:

A couple of years ago I did an H&S short intro course and we were asked to make a list of all the items in and outside the hall that *might* pose a danger to someone. In fact, there were a couple of dodgy items (broken socket, rusted bracket on water tank), but it was a hoot populating the list with all sorts of utterly trivial stuff that nobody in their right mind would bother with.

Amazingly, the H&S bod took it all seriously and promised they would all be attended to.

[Mark]

I'd say not. Many fridges use electronic control systems which do go wrong. My 6 year old Samsung fridge has such a failure and I had to scrap it because spares were no longer manufactured.

I'm not sure what you meant by this apart to contradict your first sentence?

[Mark]

How? IME theives chop off mains cables rather than unplug them.

[The Natural Philosopher]

Mostly te plastic interiors call apart, and the door seals.

Lec is as good as it gets for that.

If they degass, chuck em.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

Not possible to repair it?

I have a near 30 year old fridge still working as new. I'd not expect to be able to buy spares for it now. Haven't tried, of course. But few even decent makers carry spares for things over 10 years old.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

[Andrew Gabriel]

For freezers, add in waterlogging (icelogging) of the insulation when they first switched away from CFC expanded foams to more environmentally friendly insulation (which meant chucking out the freezer after less than half the lifetime it would have had previously). Sigh.

The most unreliable parts are the fanned frost-free sections. Avoiding units with those will give you a very much more reliable fridge/freezer. The basic sealed system compressor technology has been around for decades and achieved quite remarkable levels of high reliability at low cost.

Sometimes gas leaks are obvious (a friend had one where the pipe coming out of the vibrating compressor was rubbing against a bit of fixed metal, and we had the same thing in an air conditioning unit at work. A blob of solder to fix the hole and bending the pipe away from this point permanently fixed both cases after regassing.

[Mark]

I don't know how to repair it nor did anyone else I could find.

[Mark]

Pretty close. I visited an office shortly after a burglary and all that was left of the computers and printers were chopped off leads. The mains leads were still plugged in.

[Peter Parry]

More properly called "risk avoidance" department in most companies and headed by a solicitor.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

Sounds like someone with mental problems - given that most computers and printers don't have captive leads. Perhaps we now know dribble's real job.

[pete]

I hope you included the possibility of spontaneous human combustion of your workmates as a reason for working from home :-)

[The Medway Handyman]

I get a fair bit of work from H&S inspections. Local church last week, paint 3 x steps white, box in some electric cables, fit beading to door thresholds so they wern't trip hassards.