Don't know, but either way, it sounds like there will be a lot of properties with this dodgy cable that will otherwise be ignored - chiefly because no one will want all the upheaval of replacing it.
Atlas Kablo (again)
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I'm not sure what your 'otherwise' means. I can't really see what Clifford could do that could even identify most of those 'ignored' properties, let alone do something about them.
Kind Regards, John
I couldn't tell you what brand of cable I installed today! What I can tell you is it was the easiest 10mm² I have ever stripped. No knife, no butchery, the sheath just peeled right off like a banana.
I think if I fitted some cable called Atlas Kablo I'd be thinking that's a funny name. That sounds like it could be foreign crap. I'll remember this. I suppose people think differently.
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'Otherwise' being if no one does anything. Which is what is happening now.
If it is dangerous I assume it needs addressing. Is it dangerous?
That's what I thought you meant - but, as I thought we had agreed, there is no way that the great majority of buildings with such cable could be identified - so I can't see what anyone can really 'do' in relation to most of the affected installations.
I don't know. The cable was obviously sub-standard enough to result in the (late) recall, but I don't know (or can't remember!) much of the details.
Kind Regards, John
Yes, but as has been pointed out, it is quite possible that a lot of it was sold under names which sounded neither funny nor foreign.
Kind Regards, John
I once had fun with one of those - strung it out for quite some time (good to waste the time of a call-centre minion, as it causes his performance to drop). Eventually I expressed my excitement that something could be done because the accident had been very serious and life-changing.
CCM: "What were the long-term effects?"
BAS: "I am dead, it was a fatal accident."
CCM: Click.
Ah yes - unlike good old English-sounding names like Pirelli and Draka....
On a slight side point... can anyone remmber a vagely popular intrnet meme about 8 years ago "101 things skippy must not do in the US army" it was quit widely known and linked to in some parts at the time, at a similar time I had a post deleted here by the mods because I explained why the neutral passess through the terminals on the meter being to make abstractation slightly harder as opposed to just a token neutal provided for the voltage coil...becuase they thought I'd told folks how to bypass their meters
. I changed my signature on here to something like "#76 thing I must not do on here provide abstractation advice" as a bit of a **** take. I also had my home town on the location field and my email addressn(which had my surname in) on the profile. I actually had a researcher see the signature and proceed to call everyone with the sam surname in the local telephone directory because they were making a show on meter fraud and were digging for the details behind the signature comment
. I changed my signature on here to something like "#76 thing I must not do on here provide abstractation advice" as a bit of a **** take. I also had my home town on the location field and my email addressn(which had my surname in) on the profile. I actually had a researcher see the signature and proceed to call everyone with the sam surname in the local telephone directory because they were making a show on meter fraud and were digging for the details behind the signature comment
Some of the Mods are hard of thinking.I had a post deleted here by the mods because ... they thought I'd told folks how to bypass their meters
And don't tell me - they would never engage with you over it, never explain themselves, and never admit that they had made a mistake, let alone apologise.
Surprise surprise, there's a tenuous attempt to link to the Grenfell fire.
And this:
If someone can get plasterboard to ignite through contact with an overheating cable, then I will be very impressed.
And this:
If someone can get plasterboard to ignite through contact with an overheating cable, then I will be very impressed.
I'm not surprised - it's exactly as I predicted further back in the thread in post #27. It sadly goes to show just how predictable the BBC are these days with their hackneyed journalism - trying to find a nasty in the works somewhere to appease (or inflame) the turgid masses.
I could do it.
First pre-soak the PB in an accelerant.
Then use steel or tungsten wire which I can get to very high temperatures before it melts.
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