Oz wiring standards (a couple of pics for you)
Aug 18th 2007, 3:46 am
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Re: Oz wiring standards (a couple of pics for you)
Was it Electrically safe and pleasing to the eye? 
Aug 19th 2007, 6:38 am
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Texas isn't the only place with "cowboys"!!!!!!!!! 
Aug 19th 2007, 7:20 am
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Re: Oz wiring standards (a couple of pics for you)
Yep the guys out here only need a couple of guns in there tool belts and and there full on cowboys!
Will see what this next week brings at work. Maybe some more very high standards of work i may be able to get some pics of!
Will see what this next week brings at work. Maybe some more very high standards of work i may be able to get some pics of!
Aug 19th 2007, 8:43 am
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Re: Oz wiring standards (a couple of pics for you)
[QUOTE=youngy73;red cables which were neutrals and blacks which were actives..[/QUOTE]
mate, dont that wind you up! i see so much of that, reds as neutral, black as live, and it is *****in live, not active! lol I'm housebashing in sydney and inbetween that have to drive round all the strata flats doing maintainance -power dead, lighting not working, replace a fitting here, new socket there etc.. So much cross polarity, so much unearthed and half the flats i go to are still in VIRs. most of sydney needs re-wiring.
All the sparks round here have a steel horse parked outside!
mate, dont that wind you up! i see so much of that, reds as neutral, black as live, and it is *****in live, not active! lol I'm housebashing in sydney and inbetween that have to drive round all the strata flats doing maintainance -power dead, lighting not working, replace a fitting here, new socket there etc.. So much cross polarity, so much unearthed and half the flats i go to are still in VIRs. most of sydney needs re-wiring.
All the sparks round here have a steel horse parked outside!
Aug 19th 2007, 9:31 am
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Re: Oz wiring standards (a couple of pics for you)
mate, dont that wind you up! i see so much of that, reds as neutral, black as live, and it is *****in live, not active! lol I'm housebashing in sydney and inbetween that have to drive round all the strata flats doing maintainance -power dead, lighting not working, replace a fitting here, new socket there etc.. So much cross polarity, so much unearthed and half the flats i go to are still in VIRs. most of sydney needs re-wiring. All the sparks round here have a steel horse parked outside!
All the sparks round here have a steel horse parked outside!
Aug 21st 2007, 4:03 pm
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I'm worried now cos i always get up peoples nose's at work pulling up their shoddy work. It's like an ocd for me, some aussie sparks gonna deck me!
Sorry can't stand RAF sparkies
Sorry can't stand RAF sparkies
Aug 22nd 2007, 7:06 am
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Aug 22nd 2007, 10:24 am
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I was the same mate but you just have to learn to live with your new life out here and the new standards or lack of them! We do a lot of what they call rapid builds. Its all metal framed houses and the cables are just lashed in all over. I think they are a disaster waiting to happen but they say it doesnt matter as its all on rcd's. Even the houses that are wooden the cables dont get clipped. Im doin a build next year and gona wire it as i would in the uk just for old times sake
Sep 2nd 2007, 7:48 am
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Re: Oz wiring standards (a couple of pics for you)
Go on then here's another pic for ya!
Me and youngy have been working in cooktown this last week and went to a very old pub called the lions den. Date's back to 1870. Anyway its just a tin shack in the middle of nowhere. You can write on the walls or do whatever you like in there hence the writing you see in the pic. You cant beat flexi conduit just a shame they didnt have enough to reach the power point they had spurred off
Me and youngy have been working in cooktown this last week and went to a very old pub called the lions den. Date's back to 1870. Anyway its just a tin shack in the middle of nowhere. You can write on the walls or do whatever you like in there hence the writing you see in the pic. You cant beat flexi conduit just a shame they didnt have enough to reach the power point they had spurred off
Sep 2nd 2007, 9:25 pm
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Someone should start a thread with these photos on, a hall of fame so to speak
They are something special these aussie sparks!
They are something special these aussie sparks!
May 26th 2008, 8:16 am
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Re: Oz wiring standards (a couple of pics for you)
Im back with another pic for you! This was the domestic switchboard on a house i was working on today! Took a long while to get me head round what was what! Great fire protection where the cables go into the house and check out the connectors! God i love working here! Every day is a fresh challenge
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