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Steve Walker[_5_]

On 04/12/2019 20:11, wrote:
On Wednesday, 4 December 2019 18:03:51 UTC, ARW wrote:
This year we have 2 third year apprentices. Neither of them can fit a
back box straight, wire up a two way lightswitch etc etc.

Could I suggest that being able to wire up a two way lightswitch should be an *entry criterion* to being an electrical apprentice?

Fairly sure I could have done it at 16.

In fact I was probably doing it about 8, with a battery and paperclips and brass paper fasteners for switches :-)

I think I was about 12 or 13 when I installed the two mains spotlights,
pair of dimmers and changed the switch near the door of my bedroom from
a single gang to a 3-gang, with two way switching on both the spotlights.

SteveW