Truss and France Posted August 27, 2007 Share Posted August 27, 2007 you dont lick them to see if there dead anymore then ? Hope your talking about batteries Kev Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest anguscanplay Posted August 27, 2007 Share Posted August 27, 2007 Hope your talking about batteries Kev i had to leave the St Johns in a hurry - lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Ward Posted November 12, 2007 Share Posted November 12, 2007 I was working with someone that I usually do PJ's with. He was up the ladder fitting up the external sounder - all he had to do was drill the holes and wire it up, I had even marked the wall so that I was sure it was going to be straight. After 20 mins, I needed the drill, but he was still up the ladder with the drill. I told him to come down. He said the wall was really difficult to drill. The masonry drill was now 'pointed' and completely burnt out. I asked him where he got his masonry drills and found out he had bought them from a DIY shop! I gave him one of my drill bits - I went to select the drill into reverse to eject the pointed drill bit from the drill, but it was already in reverse! This engineer had been up the ladder for 20 minutes with the drill going backwards!! Surely the smoke and glow from the end of the drill would have been a give away!? Nope, just keep going! Matt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazmando Posted January 7, 2009 Share Posted January 7, 2009 At Lander Alarms in Cambridge we had a trainee storeman whom i asked to get me in some copper pins for a CC Wire door panel. He asked, how many do you need? I said about 500 would keep me going for a good while. Anyhow I had a call a few days later, the panel pins were in. He directed me to a loaded pallet on the floor and said there you go. He had only ordered 500 Kilograms of copper panel pins! There was probably about 2 million pins in that lot, poor ol Eddy. I nearly wet myself with laughter apparently the delivery lorry had to be a special with a fork lift truck on the back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A-G Posted January 8, 2009 Share Posted January 8, 2009 I once ordered 5,000 staples. The trainee at Gardners said they would have to order them. She thought I wanted 5,000 boxes of them. Luckily someone experienced spotted it and phoned me to verify the correct quantity. . . . PM me for access to the SSAIB members discussion area. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luggsey Posted January 8, 2009 Share Posted January 8, 2009 Young know it all on my old firm drills a 20mm hole in a box, holding box between feet like I do.... Somehow drills out the side of the box, hole cutter goes through new shiny leather boots and mangles the top of his foot! He never learnt, he's still a cocky little twerp. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Life is like a box of chocolates, some bugger always gets the nice ones! My Amateur Radio Forum Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A-G Posted January 8, 2009 Share Posted January 8, 2009 I had a trainee who wanted to see how powerful the staple gun was ... so he fired a staple into his hand..... and yes, it was powerful. I had to pull it out with a pair of pliers. Loads of blood. . . . PM me for access to the SSAIB members discussion area. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DirectFS Posted April 19, 2009 Share Posted April 19, 2009 Ah, the old days. Does anyone recall the old meggers you used to have to wind up first? Let 'em go then do your insulation test? This was in the days before Health and Safety existed. We used to run monthly competitions on site for the new apprantices, and award the best dance prize. Essentially, we'd strip off the probe, clamp the croc clip to the bottom of the steps they were on, whizz it off and watch them dance. None of them ever picked up an uninsulated probe after that for some reason......... Bill. Bill Accord Fire & Security Services Ltd. www.accordfire.co.uk ~ TEL: 0845 474 5839 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest old-hand Posted April 19, 2009 Share Posted April 19, 2009 In my other guise as a locksmith a m8 borrowed my chisels and fitted a lock as I was fitting some grilles/gates. I heard a thump /shout/cry he had not realised I kept mine sharper than a diamond on heat and went thru the side of the door, one free set of lockguards sorted that out. Numpty in shop decided to test a stun gun (yes they were legal to sell then) on himself, what a silly dance ensued....................... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KateC Posted May 7, 2009 Share Posted May 7, 2009 When I did installs back in the 90's, I had two apprentices. The boss was a REAL money grabbing *"%^*"%^"%^ so was insisting that these two 'green' engineers go out together do do installs on their own to make extra cash while I worked on others with another apprentice. Well, their first day out together - I got a call from the boss at about 10am saying that they'd both been kicked out of a house they were working in as the customer had come back unexpectedly to find one in the shower (singing) and the other had the customer's fish fingers under the grill (with their bread buttered ready) and was firing staples at their canaries! One of the said apprentices (before all this happened) was working with me on a house install. Just a basic Logic 4 panel - 1 day job etc... I sent him around the back of the house with a dummy box, cordless drill, screws and plugs etc and a ladder. After about ten minutes, I could hear drilling but it sounded quite faint.... Odd... I thought, but didn't think anything of it. Next minute, there is a police car screaming up the street and from the landing window, I could see it stop in the back street with two officers running past the house I was in and to the house two along. I leaned round and spotted my ladders with him up the ladder putting the dummy box on the wall... I opened the window and shouted out. He did a double-take as he realised what he'd done. I went to explain to the police (that had been called by the frightened old lady in the house!) what had happened. He never lived that one down. I've still no idea to this day why he did that. He had to walk round the back street as it was a row of terraces but he didn't even think to count the number of houses before starting putting the box up! Hehe! Another guy that I worked with phoned me up in a panic with a redcare system. He'd been on site for about 3 hours trying to work out why pin 4 was staying open... I will add more when I think of them - there will be lots! Kate C x Oh, two more! Got a call from a brand new customer to say that the SAB was going off outside with the system not set. He also said that it looked like the box had 'sagged' a bit. I went out there to find that the engineer had fitted the live box right above the central heating boiler vent. The box had completely melted down onto it. Yes, my boss was a money grabber and made us fit polyprop live boxes... Idiot... Still in the wrong place if it had been polycarb but it might have held out a tad longer! Hehe! Another time I got a call from a REALLY angry customer to say that they wanted an engineer onsite right NOW to rectify something the installation engineers had done (another two useless lads the boss had taken on) with a brand new install. When I got there, the customer took me upstairs to the front bedroom where I couldn't believe my eyes! The panel was in the hall directly under the little front bedroom so the install lads had upended the bed, pulled all the carpet back, taken all the boards up and unfortunately.... forgotten to put it all back to normal again.... So, that was my job for the next two hours! I was less than happy! More to come! Kate C x Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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