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<blockquote data-quote="Phoenix" data-source="post: 555755" data-attributes="member: 8133"><p>That consumer unit is not 25 years old, that would make it 1999. We were on 16th edition regs back then and a few things were different. The whole all metal consumer units thing was 2015, before then, you could get metal but there would be plastic flaps on the front most of the time. BG were not even in the consumer unit market in 1999!</p><p></p><p>The board fitted in the late 90s has been changed in the last ten years. In a poor manner, I think I'd have got a piece of 4" x 2" pvc trunking and run that along where the cables go through the wall into the floor of the above stairs cupboard and slotted the board and the trunking (smaller slot in the PVC trunking than the metal board) and bolted them together with a couple of roofers, rather than the mess of unrestrained cables, and gaps in grommet entries that they have instead gone with....</p><p></p><p>I know the video you are on about, flameport a.k.a. John ward and his welder. It might be that effects are limited at domestic currents, but that doesn't mean its acceptable to do it, it might mean I'm tempted to class them more as C3s these days though</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Phoenix, post: 555755, member: 8133"] That consumer unit is not 25 years old, that would make it 1999. We were on 16th edition regs back then and a few things were different. The whole all metal consumer units thing was 2015, before then, you could get metal but there would be plastic flaps on the front most of the time. BG were not even in the consumer unit market in 1999! The board fitted in the late 90s has been changed in the last ten years. In a poor manner, I think I'd have got a piece of 4" x 2" pvc trunking and run that along where the cables go through the wall into the floor of the above stairs cupboard and slotted the board and the trunking (smaller slot in the PVC trunking than the metal board) and bolted them together with a couple of roofers, rather than the mess of unrestrained cables, and gaps in grommet entries that they have instead gone with.... I know the video you are on about, flameport a.k.a. John ward and his welder. It might be that effects are limited at domestic currents, but that doesn't mean its acceptable to do it, it might mean I'm tempted to class them more as C3s these days though [/QUOTE]
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