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I worked in Egypt years ago, conditions were pretty grim and the food was awful. One of the guys decided to smuggle a load of bacon in to make his month away go faster. He got away with it for a couple of weeks sneaking into the galley after hours and making himself a bacon butty but then got...

Hi Bruspark, I had the same thought and I've run a 60mm cable duct from the house up the drive along with a 25mm water MDPE water main, I've got 500m of 32 pair multi mode fibre I rescued from being skipped which is probably more suited to a small phone exchange than enabling me to watch porn...

Sorry wasn't too clear there Dave is correct, 2 sub mains. Both under 40m 3 x 10mm2 which seems to be sufficient for 50A. I cant imagine I'd draw anything like that in a joinery workshop most equipment seems to be around 2-3KW so probably 15A max with a machine and dust extraction. Hot tubs...

Hi Binky, Nice to meet you. Due to the remote nature of the work I do I tend to get dumped in the deep end with a fair variety of stuff, from power controllers and VSDs to modular switchgear and protection relays to the gayer end of the market with DCS and process instrumentation. I spend my...

Afternoon folks, We bought a 400 year old vicarage about 1 year ago now and were just starting to refurbish it, part of this involves a fair bit of joinery. As I don't get to get my hands dirty as much as Id like at work these days I'm building a small workshop so I can make a load of sash...

Hi Sharpened, Thanks for the welcome, I need all the help I can get with the joinery, any tips most welcome ROTFWL I've got the odd story to share but am struggling to find the thread on experiences in west African strip clubs. It would be fair to say I spend more time poncing about...

Afternoon ladies and gents, New member to the forum after a little lurking, seen some great content and well informed replies. I'm a electrical/control engineer by discipline but have spent a fair amount of the past 15 years bumbling around various on/offshore oil and gas installations around...