so Gary we had a really exciting day at the college yesterday uh we went down to the workshop
to find that a box had been delivered and when we opened it up it was absolutely packed full of
a gift from Armeg which we are extremely grateful for here at the college
um just a fantastic piece of equipment to show the learners guys what what what did we get
so we have to chase out the walls in the workshop don't we we have to drill the wooden joists and of
course you know it's hammer bolster chisel and we were fortunate to have Phil from Armeg come
out and do a tech talk with us we went through the different drill bits and different applications a
video you can see on the channel and he also gave a wonderful demonstration on how to use this kit
uh to chase out walls and it was quite an eye-opening moment for the learners when
you're after it's been you know a good hour the hard way yeah to see where industry had
moved yeah yeah i mean we were saying no they might be you know we wish we'd had this kind
of kit when we were on site it would have saved a lot of blisters would have saved a lot of uh
whacked thumbs and whatnot wouldn't it so yeah just a fantastic way to help our learners
learn a little bit more about the industry they're working in and again it goes that curved
moment where we always say colleges are always behind the curve we'd like to think that we're
going to chase the walls by hand because i think that's a worthwhile task but also the learners
are going to get to experience the the tri-cut of the box cutters whether it be a single or a twin
socket box they've also got the chasing tool so we can chase the actual channel out for either a
conduit or capping yeah so we're actually keeping up again with industry but only because we've got
in this case a wonderful donation from our meg so yeah so it's really exciting and we've got a
little second open this up um so we've got this lovely kit as well uh with all the different
drill bits in uh this is the the twisted drilling set 16 piece set that was sent through um you got
the uh amazingly tough uh auger bits there that all uh i believe we'll go through nails and metal
and everything with that being damaged and some hardened uh drill bits there some masonry bits
it's just a fantastic gift and we are extremely grateful uh for everything that Armeg have done
for us and uh and we hope to to see Phil again doing some demos feltfield will be out for
our learners for enrichment um maybe second term in so we've got a few people we've got
we're fortunate position that we've got Darren Staniforth coming in the first term and we've
got Collingwood lighting also coming in our first term so if you're watching this and you're one of
um the manufacturers or suppliers of electrical equipment you want to join us at the college for
enrichment and enlightenment for staff i would suggest so we can keep up with the curve we'd uh
we'd also love to see you but we'd really for this moment like to thank our meg for all their efforts
so we didn't just get one exciting parcel yesterday we got another exciting parcel
uh this one uh electrum branded we're hoping that it's from Anil from Crabtree we've got a
feeling that we know what it is we're not 100 sure so we thought we'd open it up on camera
and see and we think that this might be an AFDD unit that we're going to be able to give to our
learners to install on their jobs in the workshop which will put us again right at the cutting edge
of the updated regs and what's happening in industry so let's see what we've got there Gary
oh there's another thing that away sent me a miniature RCBO as well so we've got Crabtree
stuff so yeah so first things first we've got a miniature RCBO fantastic six and one uh it's a
six amp 30 milliamp RCBO which is just fantastic and again that if you if you're watching this and
you're not an electrician a big whoop but when you actually look at this as a sparks and you
think look at all the tech they must have crammed into that just standard sized circuit breaker
that is a fantastic bit of kit really really good and the learners are going to benefit from
popping those in and we've done a couple of videos on it oh we have them in a couple of videos
we did one where we got uh introduced to the miniature RCBO and then i went on and did one
about um the testing procedures and how it was easier to use a miniaturized boat now we might
have to undo that thinking yeah with the AFDD yeah we may need to help fold detection devices
yeah so let's have a little excited look inside this box so i'm so excited i can't work out
again i don't want to damage the box but i might have to do with excitement there it is
there we go what we got oh he's actually got us completed unit so we actually have
the unit complete so this side here is our fault detection device and it's already been
strapped across and we'll show that in a video we're going to actually unassemble these and
fit them and all right and he's actually gave me another six amp
RCBO as well the reason we'd like a six and one the opening jobs are going to do uh
line circuits yeah and we'd like to think um that we're only one at the moment the reason we've only
got one is obviously because they're reasonably expensive we expect that to come down over time
but when you see the benefits of using them and i've done two videos overnight on AFDD units
the cost is irrelevant you've got a quarter of a million pound house and everybody you loving it
yeah and your tv which you also love yeah and that burns to the ground or you can start fitting these
just remind me regulation requirement to fit them uh it's at that interesting stage with anything
new that comes into the regulations it tends to start off as being a recommendation so when surge
protection devices were first uh sort of coming into the regs it was a recommendation rather than
a requirement same with RCDs actually if you go back far enough but as time goes on it becomes
more and more it moves from being a recommendation to requirement so we're going to take some uh time
to have a look at this off camera and then we'll start producing some videos with us using them
but we're going to get as joe's just said that we're going to get our level 1 level 2 learners
we've got level three full-time group this year but we've got the apprentices so the apprentices
will also get experience with these that we're actually going to start fitting them in the
workshop it might not be every learner it might be a selection of learners that get the opportunity
to fit them but they certainly will be able to perhaps all really tell us that it's something
that they would make as a massive consideration when working on site and installing circuits
yeah so the message from this video thank you very very much Anil from Crabtree we really appreciate
this and it is a massive help to us here at the college so thanks for that and i did put
him through a lot of misery to get to this point didn't i don't you did bless him thank you yeah an
amazing thank you um for for sending it out i was pestering him religiously for a long time wasn't
we i to finish it off we hope this video has been