[Cafe] Debian LTSP server + The Boiler issue

[hartney at burngreave.net]

Quoting John Cahill <email at johncahill.net>:


> inspected the cable insulation and found scorching in several places. 
> There was a gaffer tape repair of one of the damaged areas!! I powered 
> the boiler up and heard and saw arcing between an exposed wire and the 
> boiler tank. The bodged repair I discovered was completely at odds with 
> health and safety and the cable should ideally have been replaced. If 
> the connection between earth and the boiler chassis was to have become 
> in  anyway deficient or damaged this would have allowed for a person in 
> contact with the boiler to be exposed to a potentially lethal electric 
> shock! This was a dangerously shoddy piece of work.

I shall make that crystal clear to Kier when they (eventually) attend.
Slipshod wankers.
It would've been a good idea to photograph their bodged repairs and video the
arcing before you made the job safe.

> I have performed a temporary repair by insulating the entire length of 
> the damaged cable with heat proof tape, (of the sort used in gas fires). 
> This should allow us to use the boiler safely until this farce comes to 
> an end. 

Thanks, John.
=k=