1978, i was on the YOP scheme, £16.50 per week.
Your first pay packet
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Do you still say ten bob or 50p always use ten bob and so do my kids from hearing me say it
.Do you still say ten bob or 50p always use ten bob and so do my kids from hearing me say it
September 1962. 15 years old. Apprentice fitter £2.7s.8d. Approximately £2.38p in todays money
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First job apprentice fitter £16.50 found it to boring so jacked it after 6 months
Got accepted within weeks for BG apprenticeship which was £28 and went up to 32 within a couple of weeks of starting due to pending wage rise. £7 a week dig money and £7 payments on loan for motorbike
While waiting for Bg apprenticeship to start in the august done YOP on £20.50p also paying 7 digs and 7 bike loan.
Cannot work out how i was on the pi55 all weekend even with it being about 30p a pint .
Coming out my time wages went up to a ton and digs went up to 20 quid always thought the old girl was going to give me it back when i left home .
Teach me to think too much
Got accepted within weeks for BG apprenticeship which was £28 and went up to 32 within a couple of weeks of starting due to pending wage rise. £7 a week dig money and £7 payments on loan for motorbike
While waiting for Bg apprenticeship to start in the august done YOP on £20.50p also paying 7 digs and 7 bike loan.
Cannot work out how i was on the pi55 all weekend even with it being about 30p a pint .
Coming out my time wages went up to a ton and digs went up to 20 quid always thought the old girl was going to give me it back when i left home .
Teach me to think too much
1985, apprentice machine setter, £62 a week, paid £20 of that for keep
Ah, those were the days...... shift work in a dusty factory, smoking on the shop floor, cheeky chat with the factory girls, full fat breakfast every early shift....... quality
Ah, those were the days...... shift work in a dusty factory, smoking on the shop floor, cheeky chat with the factory girls, full fat breakfast every early shift....... quality
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Started Work at 15 years old (1958) as an Office Boy for a year before an apprenticeship. First wage £1/17s/2d. But I still went on to a University education.
Started Work at 15 years old (1958) as an Office Boy for a year before an apprenticeship. First wage £1/17s/2d. But I still went on to a University education.
1980 £32 gross = £28.82 take home at a small electrical firm doing mainly maintance on M&B pubs. Left there and moved into woodworking in the same year and my wages rocketed up to £35 gross!
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Ladylola,,, I bet you didn't know what to do with that extra £3 in your wage packet eh.
Well JJ as I'm sure you know joiners have a &*$£load more tools than sparkeys so that £3 didn't even make it to my pocket half the time
Ladylola,,, I bet you didn't know what to do with that extra £3 in your wage packet eh.
And thats why (s)he's called Ladylola.
that sounds like a challenge to me...
are we talking hand tools or are we including power and site tools?
Screwdrivers:- Pozi 0,1 and 2 ( VDE ), Phillips 0,1 and 2 ( VDE ), Modulo 1 and 2, various sizes of flat blade ranging from 2.5mm straight to 10mm flared ( most VDE ), stubbies in wide flat, pozi and phillips 1 and 2.
Side cutters ( VDE ), cable shears small, cable shears large, cable shear ratchet type, combi pliers.
2 pairs of "pipe grips"
2 adjustable spanners
set of spanners from 8mm to 24mm.
socket set including deep sockets.
Bootlace crimpers 0.5-4mm, 6-16mm, 25-50mm
Insulated crimp crimpers
uninsulated crimp crimpers 10/16mm, 16-150mm ( hand ), hydraulic crimp set up to 240mm
junior hacksaw, engineers hacksaw, floorboard saw, wood saw, plasterboard saw.
flat pry bar, short crowbar, nail puller.
engineers square 4 inch, adjustable set square, steel rule 6 inch, steel rule 12 inch, tape measure 3m, 5m, 8m.
plumb line, chalk line, spirit level small, spirit level large, laser level.
holesaws of various sizes and arbours to suit, conecutters and various drill bits and taps for metal and plastic, flat/auger bits for wood.
2.5lb lump hammer, 4lb lump hammer, 3/4 inch brick chisel, 2.5 inch brick bolster chisel, EBS tool for SDS hammer drill.
conduit stock and die set.
conduit pipe vice / bender
conduit bending springs for 20mm and 25mm plastic conduit.
conduit cutter.
round file, half round file, flat file, deburing tool.
Multimeter, insulation resistance tester, earth loop tester, non contact voltage detector, plug in socket tester, continuity tester.
that sounds like a challenge to me...
are we talking hand tools or are we including power and site tools?
Probably hand tools as I at least have access to power tools so don't need to purchase them myself although if I did I reckon chippys would win here.
Screwdrivers:- Pozi 0,1 and 2 ( VDE ), Phillips 0,1 and 2 ( VDE ), Modulo 1 and 2, various sizes of flat blade ranging from 2.5mm straight to 10mm flared ( most VDE ), stubbies in wide flat, pozi and phillips 1 and 2.
Ok pretty much the same, I generally cart 6or 7 screwdrivers around with meSide cutters ( VDE ), cable shears small, cable shears large, cable shear ratchet type, combi pliers.
Side cutters , pliers (long nose and standard) and a pair of pincers
2 pairs of "pipe grips"
you win on this one.
2 adjustable spanners
set of spanners from 8mm to 24mm.
socket set including deep sockets.
A couple of adjustables art set of sockets about 8 sockets in total
Bootlace crimpers 0.5-4mm, 6-16mm, 25-50mm
Insulated crimp crimpers
uninsulated crimp crimpers 10/16mm, 16-150mm ( hand ), hydraulic crimp set up to 240mm
You win here too
junior hacksaw, engineers hacksaw, floorboard saw, wood saw, plasterboard saw.
Hacksaw, 2-3 panel saws, multisaw, and sometimes coping , pad , and rip saw come out with me depending on the job, also tenon and dovetail saws in the shop.
flat pry bar, short crowbar, nail puller.
.Yep me too although I don't normally carry more than one
engineers square 4 inch, adjustable set square, steel rule 6 inch, steel rule 12 inch, tape measure 3m, 5m, 8m.
9" square (don't do adjustable ones me self), sliding bevel, 3' rule %m tape but I don't think you carry 3!plumb line, chalk line, spirit level small, spirit level large, laser level.
We use all of these too
holesaws of various sizes and arbours to suit, conecutters and various drill bits and taps for metal and plastic, flat/auger bits for wood.
Not holesaws generally but the full gamet of hss bits , flat and auger bits plus masonarry bits.
2.5lb lump hammer, 4lb lump hammer, 3/4 inch brick chisel, 2.5 inch brick bolster chisel, EBS tool for SDS hammer drill.
Claw hammer , lump hammer , pin hammer, punches and some of still use mallets, and yes we use bolsters as well. I used to carry a plugging chisel and rawlplug tool but don't any more.
conduit stock and die set.
conduit pipe vice / bender
conduit bending springs for 20mm and 25mm plastic conduit.
conduit cutter.
Non of the above
round file, half round file, flat file, deburing tool.
Flat triangle and round
Multimeter, insulation resistance tester, earth loop tester, non contact voltage detector, plug in socket tester, continuity tester.
no on this one
In addition we have a set of chisels and sometimes I'll carry gouges, a smoothing plane , jack plane ,rebate plane and block plane. In the shop I also have bullnose ,shoulder and jointers.In addition I also have around 30 wooden moulding planes. Axes I generally have two a good and a rough one, but I have several axes and adzes that are used at times.
There are clamping tools such as g clamps and sash cramps not to mention benches , sawhorses and vices.
Dust brushes , sanding blocks, mastic guns and scrapers.
And for now I'm going to check my box to see if there's any paracetamol in there too
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