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allenjames
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Just finished a fusebox strip and rebuild...
« on: Oct 14th, 2006, 2:04pm » |
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Had some wiper speed trouble lately - always fast wipes.
Anyhow, tried new motor - same fault, tried new switch, same fault.
Whipped the main fusebox out today (after cutting my arm to shreds on the metal dash brackets).
Stripped it down to level 5 and found 2x tracks touching.
Quick realign, rebuilt and its working a treat.
I am amazed at how "easy" it was to be honest - start to finish, my clock is only 2 hours slow, so I guess it took 2 hours.
Shame my attempt to repair my home cinema amp last night with the soldering iron didnt go so well, £250 of amp up the swanny !
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Re: Just finished a fusebox strip and rebuild...
« Reply #1 on: Oct 14th, 2006, 2:31pm » |
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Well done mate 
on Oct 14th, 2006, 2:04pm, allenjames wrote:| Shame my attempt to repair my home cinema amp last night with the soldering iron didnt go so well, £250 of amp up the swanny ! |
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Ouch...
Power modules was it? I see loads of faulty Kenwood and Technics amps, nearly always the power modules that die, sometimes you're looking at £200 per channel for new output ones. The get played loud through low impedance speakers, get hot and then the fireworks start...
Got a very nice top end Technics pre/power amp sitting around with a channel imbalance, can't be adjusted, cost of a new IC to cure it is £170; me thinks spare parts pile in the sky or DIY redesign.
I still do the old (silver) Pioneers, all discrete transistors, can't get the original ones anymore but equivalents work great, got a top end Pioneer amp on eBay a while back for £3 with a blown power supply, an hour with the scope and £10 of new parts and it sounds lovely  .
Regards, Bruce 
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Re: Just finished a fusebox strip and rebuild...
« Reply #2 on: Oct 14th, 2006, 4:21pm » |
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Well done. Man after my own heart. I never send anything to garages or 'repairers', they are all a load of conning tossers in my book.
With a good tool kit, some determination and a bit of effort, virtually anything can be fixed.
I do all our cars (3), PC's, electrics in the house, laptop repairs for a sideline, plumbing, all of it
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Re: Just finished a fusebox strip and rebuild...
« Reply #3 on: Oct 16th, 2006, 12:48am » |
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Of course SD you do know that you need to be part P registered to do any major electrical works in the house now? Outside lights, showers etc. It is an offence to touch them.
I am an electricain by trade and I am not legally allowed to do those kind of jobs in my own house but I could fit a socket in a school classroom because it isn't a domestic residence!
A builder can go on a course and become part P registered after a few weeks but me as a time served electrical tradesman (although I don't do a lot these days) can't touch it..... now which wonderful government department thought that one up?
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Re: Just finished a fusebox strip and rebuild...
« Reply #4 on: Oct 16th, 2006, 8:12am » |
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I thought you could still do them but they HAD to be certified afterwards..
Whereas simple works need not be certified.
TT
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Re: Just finished a fusebox strip and rebuild...
« Reply #5 on: Oct 16th, 2006, 8:13am » |
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Some MP's daughter was electrocuted... So the nanny state introduced a new law.
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Re: Just finished a fusebox strip and rebuild...
« Reply #6 on: Oct 16th, 2006, 7:09pm » |
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Just finished rewiring our place, 50 year old bodged electrics and polystyrene insulation don't mix well...
Some of the work done in our place before we bought it was deadly, back boxes glued on the walls, earths on the lighting twisted together because there weren't enough terminals in the box, the circuits to the new extension were run through 2 core flex for Gods sake  . They had the entire place fed by one ring main and one 1mm lighting circuit, had a shock when I ripped out the old bathroom and found all the cables run behind the leaky pipes to the old shower  . The chap who owned it before used to run a taxi firm from there, with all the radio and CCTV gear wired up to dozens of spurs, no idea how it all coped.
For £250 I had all the new gear (Crabtree fusebox etc), rewired it in stages while the place was replastered and while I laid the new joists/floors, 6 months later and all the old wiring is gone and the new in and tested, new meter tails and all the lighting circuits run through the loft in conduit, no longer do the lights dim when you switch on the hoover...
Wasn't aware you had to be certified now to carry out major electrical work; it's a bit like the gas regs, I know a few fellas who are Corgi registered but some of the stories from the trade are chilling, just because somebody is certified doesn't make them capable...a few bad apples get an entire trade a bad name.
Sorry for the off topic 
Regards, Bruce.
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