On 10/01/2019 20:23, Michael Chare wrote:
On 10/01/2019 19:10, ARW wrote:
Third year apprentice (one of the best we have had) was having trouble
putting the meter tails into the mains isolator on some new builds.

He was having difficulty tightening up the hex screws.

One answer in the office was "You have a **** set of Allen keys"

In his defence he replied "They are brand new I only got them on
Saturday and I paid for the most expensive of the two pairs available
as I don't want **** tools"

Anyone care to guess what went wrong:-)?


I am not sure that I would want to use an all metal tool in that
situation, unless I knew the incoming supply was not connected.

I recall some years ago needing to disconnect and and later reconnect
some tails to a henley block. This was an old TN-S install with one of
the dodgy pre-war metal clad main cutouts, with ceramic fuse carriers.
So I did not fancy having to pull the fuse. Normally a quick tail
removal, and replacement on a live henley is easy enough with a set of
VDE screw drivers.

So this time I was a bit distressed to discover the henley terminals
were hex headed, and I did not have an insulated hex driver.

Fortunately I did have some hex bits of the right size and a magnetic
bit holder. So the easiest thing to do was tape up the holder so there
was no exposed metalwork, and then stick it in my (all plastic bodied)
cordless drill and use that!


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Cheers,

John.

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