Hole in gas pipe!

[gassafe]

I bought a fluke 116, it only arrived yesterday... I'm not risking it ;p

 

[Killy Bing]

I bought a fluke 116, it only arrived yesterday... I'm not risking it ;p

Nice!!
i have a 117 and 323.

think we are sorted for a while!

get the magnetic strap for the back, so handy just hanging it on a boiler casing

 

[tamz]

Here is a true story

A couple of mates of mine during the miners strike were desperate for some cash so decided to go out to an old mine and cut out scrap cable.
Unfortunately one of them whacked through 3" thick cable with a hacksaw that turned out to be a plenty volt still live cable.
After the other one had put out the flames on his mates hair and clothes and checked he was still alive (just) he put him in the wheel barrow and pushed him home.
As he couldn't ring an ambulance and say we were cutting out old cables at the pit he decided to pull the cooker out and cut the cable sit his mate in the corner behind it with a pair of uninsulated pliers in his hand.
I don't think the ambulance men believed it but they took him away and patched him up.
His hair grew back again about 6 weeks later and he doesn't touch electrics :smile:

 

[kirkgas]

Cored through an incoming cable that was dropped in the cavity while standing in the pouring rain.
Put every house in the street out, fkd a new 48mm core bit and a £600 bill to make me feel lucky :lol:

Hope you quoted more than £125, unless this happened in 1981

 

[tamz]

I never made any money out of that one anyway Kirk

 

[gassafe]

Nice!!
i have a 117 and 323.

think we are sorted for a while!

get the magnetic strap for the back, so handy just hanging it on a boiler casing

Yep, iv ordered one of them too... Not cheap for what it is, but I like my tools nice long leads on these fluke meters too

 

[buckley plumb]

was talking to a guy on a course a while back whos mate died feeding copper pipe under floor it snagged so twisted and pushed and the open end cut a shower cable on an old consumer unit .I now when pushing pipe under boards solder an end cap on - made me shiver

 

[Roger Welton]

was talking to a guy on a course a while back whos mate died feeding copper pipe under floor it snagged so twisted and pushed and the open end cut a shower cable on an old consumer unit .I now when pushing pipe under boards solder an end cap on - made me shiver

Makes me shudder just thinking about it

 

[gassafe]

Makes me shudder just thinking about it

More reason to stick a piece of hep down the floor instead!

Soo many dodgy electrical joints hidden under the floors these days

 

[WHPES]

Had it happen to me when pulling a cable out the way. The cable was an old rubber covered type and part way along the length the insulation had perished and turned to powder so when it was pulled, the wires touched each other. Made a terrible flash and bang and burning rubber smell.