Volt sticks?

[Chris Green]

I have a Dymo Rhine and I use 6mm tapes for the 'top of socket' labels.

[Chris Green]

Dymo Rhino that is of course.

[charles]

I've got 6mm tape on order. (P-Touch)

[ARW]

EICR at some offices the other day.

One MCB was labelled up as John's office.

John left the firm 20 years ago:-)

[ARW]

Last thing I saw at work yesterday.

That is as how I found it.

TT installation with no RCD or ELCB.

[charles]

I like the box. ;-)

[Chris Green]

That is a common problem! I originally labelled MCBs with things like "Ben's Bedroom", "Snug", etc. but over the years things change, "Ben's bedroom" has changed at least twice in the years we've lived here.

I now have things like "North Extension Upstairs" and "West Extension".

(They really are extensions, what was originally a tiny two up, two down cottage is now a huge, T shaped, 6 bedroom house)

[Roger Hayter]

Is the brown one a replaceable wire fuse or a cartridge fuse?

[ARW]

Blue one? ie blue dots on it?

[John Rumm]

Looks like your bog standard Wylex BS 3036 re-wireable jobbie:

(The MCBs being the type designed to plug into the fuse carrier sockets on those old fuse boxes)

[John Rumm]

Now there is class! You certainly take you life in your hands fumbling around near that main switch. The only slight saving grace is that it still has its plastic covers over the screw terminals on the incoming tails.

I especially like the expanding foam in the top terminals of the leftmost way :-)

[Roger Hayter]

That's right. I've forgotten the colour code.

[John Rumm]

White = 5A, Blue = 15A, Red = 30A, and the less common Yellow = 20A, and Green = 45A

[Roger Hayter]

The last fusebox I remember as a child had ceramic fuseholders and Woolworth's fuse wire was 5A, 15A and 30A as I remember. I've probably got some somewhere.

[ARW]

And of course open to abuse as you can put 30A fuse wire in a 5A holder.

[John Rumm]

Although credit to wylex, they did at least make it impossible to plug a

30A fuse carrier into a base intended to accept a lower rated fuse. So that prevents abuse by those not versed in the art of the screwdriver!

[ARW]

What bases:-)?

Look again at the 32A plug in MCBs.....

But it gets worse. The installation was covered with a free standing unit that I managed to pull over when I tried to open the door and her husbands ashes were on top of that unit along with a vase full of flowers and water.

There were a few tears as she mopped up the laminate floor.

[John Rumm]

Yeah, I see what you mean... Still the point kind of still stands - you would not get them into the 20 or 5A positions since they do appear to have the bases in place! :-)

Could have been (slightly) worse - they could have fallen into the CU instead.

Yours or hers?