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duncanlowe · 1st Sep 2020, 6:40 pm

Oh now, I remember another. I was putting in an extra spur socket in my girlfriends house for a 'new fangled' cordless phone. As I started to connect it to the existing ring, I discovered that there was such a thing as 2.5mm PVC twin. No, not T&E just T. The bodger in question had realised that an E was required so had stripped the E out of some 0.5mm flex and used it. So my girlfriend returned to her house to find it in darkness with fllorboards up everywhere, so immediately went of to her mum's down the road. Must have been OK with it though as we are still married 30 years on.

1st Sep 2020, 6:40 pm	#52
duncanlowe Nonode Join Date: Jan 2016 Location: Stafford, Staffs. UK. Posts: 2,532	Re: Bodges Oh now, I remember another. I was putting in an extra spur socket in my girlfriends house for a 'new fangled' cordless phone. As I started to connect it to the existing ring, I discovered that there was such a thing as 2.5mm PVC twin. No, not T&E just T. The bodger in question had realised that an E was required so had stripped the E out of some 0.5mm flex and used it. So my girlfriend returned to her house to find it in darkness with fllorboards up everywhere, so immediately went of to her mum's down the road. Must have been OK with it though as we are still married 30 years on.