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[wildwood]

  Here's one that you. Can thankfully laugh at.......

Last nice burnt the oil and completed all the brackets to chassis that will hold the cage on...... Turned round to grab the. Grinder to move it and flicked the extension to get out the way...


DARKNESS.........


after stumbling around with a torch....... Found the 30 amp circuit was OK the lights OK and then the sockets were not working......... So with lights on went to have a look......

Flicking the extension. Had actually flicked the extension and double socket ........wait for it......



Into a bucket of antifreeze that I had drained from the old rad..........l.   


not good.........



 Am now glad I spent large on the wiring for my workshop......


as I said up top something we can all now laugh about...... But it could have been a bit James Bond .....doctor No heater in the bath syndrome.........

Take care out there

[gazjeep]

Hippies & elastictrickery should not be mixed ..... close call dude 

[bigjeepzj]

 
good job you got your work shop wired right

[bgbazz]

Time for a ticket in the Euromillions draw dude..that was too bloody close!!!!!!!

[robsrotti]

What Jez is not telling us, is the fact that he was on his second bottle of Merlot. That and suffering from SAD   

[Mike2909]

You related--- ?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Fran%C3%A7ois

After working in Switzerland on 9 and 10 March and recording a television special for the BBC on Saturday, 11 March 1978, he returned to his Paris apartment in order to appear, the next day, on "Les Rendez-vous du Dimanche" with TV host Michel Drucker. While taking a shower, he noticed a the light fixture wasn't straight on the wall, he tried to straighten it and was accidentally electrocuted.

[Dave The Sparky]

From the Chinese restaurant toilet when i was working down in Lewes amused me so much i took a photo

[Bulldog67]

you travel the world and stay in the most becoming places Sparks 

[IrishCJ6]

Reminds me of a microwave in Africa, came in from a long flight and had to heat my tea left for me in the apartment, turned on the microwave and then for some reason touched the oven when it was on and got an almighty tingle. Later after switching off the power found the muperts hadn't installed the earth wire in the socket and thus the microwave used me as one instead. Certainly woke me out of my jetlag.

[bgbazz]

My missus used to complain that the utility room was too dark...I soon fixed that!!!

[big g]

RCD are the saviour.

If ya got a shitty old fuse box best be changing it for a rcd fuse box.

[ivanidea]

One of the installers from Holland plugged his laptop 2 pin euro power cable into a 3 pin UK socket 

And this is the Electrical Engineers office! 

[bigjeepzj]

me done that and worse
But us Electrical Engineer types are the worst  for that stuff.
You should see some of the test bodge up I've done if you think that is unsafe.
that is a nothing and its only 220v

[bigjeepzj]

My missus used to complain that the utility room was too dark...I soon fixed that!!!

thats only 80 watts at most with that low power lamps so safe as houses 

[Nosebolt]

after another bout of wind and rain I think I have just worked out why we came home to no elec the other day