Ceil Fox

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Cheeky bastards lot a fire in a cable duct to ensure the power tripped when in fact it was our old telephone cables, they came back the next night and cut them off the old bridge, all that risk for £30 at best!

Had to nip back to site because one of the 12kV vacuum breakers wasn’t working correctly and needed changing out, time for a game of “VCB Yeeting”, I’m pretty much the only person here with the wrath of qualifications and industry experience to be signed off to work on this.

I don’t know why I have a reputation for over engineering things, incidentally here is the tig welded stainless extractor canopy to go over my barbecue and the steelwork to hold it to the gazebo.

With registration opening soon, are you happy to attend Confuzzled knowing what it's management have done and continue to do to its volunteers? Personally I think that if you are fine with it you shouldn't let the door hit you on the way out of the community. #BoycottConfuzzled

Today was the annual village barbecue, all I had to do to get a free burger was provide the barbecue and the slush machine! On a serious note though, I do always support the village events because we still have a good community spirit here which is pretty rare these days.

Finally had an afternoon free to put the external cladding on the shed I built for the neighbours 6 weeks ago.

'But theres no soap in here?' 🧼😆 @ceilfox.bsky.social 📸: Ramona

Neighbour at 4:30pm: could you MOT this fiesta for me because my usual car has broken down. Me: well, I guess my afternoon plans just changed.

I’ve looked after this Touran since new, it has 10,000 mile service intervals and I just did its 30th oil change.

I can’t say I disagree, boycott has two t’s though.

Memories on the phone just pinged me this picture of the old boy 10 years ago, before he died, he would be 20 ish here. Heart medication got him another 18 months of reasonable life quality.

When you told Ceil to “defend the ball pit” you clearly neglected to specify what you meant!

Stolen again! >_< @ceilfox.bsky.social 📸: Ramona

Dolly Parton — a longtime ally to the LGBTQ+ community and a champion for children’s literacy — passed away today at 80.

Last time I operated this breaker on the network it closed and opened on a fault and has spent the last 4 years closed to circuit main earth so this old boy is coming out and a more modern unit is going in!

Next batch of boykissers should be here in around 2-3 months, I will try and make a list of those that want to buy them.

Having your house hacked about is stressful in a very destabilising way however there are some small things that are amusing to those watching…… like doing your washing up in the shower!

The local Sri Lankan community is bringing me so much home cooked food at the minute knowing I don’t have a kitchen I’m going to have a Sri Lankan accent by the time the building work is done!

In at work yesterday, lots more cable dressing done and the LV ends terminated into the 2000a (1600a) breaker. Still need to run a 240mm2 Earth into the breaker cubicle to both Earth the cubicle and create the neutral (the star point of the transformer needs to be earthed to create the neutral)

Fair bit of prep work, separating out the cores and screens before adding allllll of the heat shrink then the lugs come off again before a final insulating boot it added, the lug worked until the clamp bolt shears then the boot is slid up over the bare metal.

Sorry for the time it took me to get back to everyone over the Confuzzled nonsense, I did not expect the post to get so much traction, didn’t realise just how many people appreciated the fursuit lounge kit I designed and built, thank you for the support and over 900 direct messages!

Cable containment for the LV side of the transformer and the new retrofitted ACB are in place, just need to add 100m of unistrut for the cable containment from the ACB into the LV panel, the LV panel will have two 1600a per phase feeds.

One of the jobs I need to do today/tomorrow is remove the old HV cable termination that went to the transformer that blew up and install/terminate the new cable. It’s 13kV XLPE cable to replace the old PILC. HV doesn’t stay where you put it so bends & sharp edges have to be avoided in the cable box.

I’m really bad as asking for help, one of the most common things Faith says to me is “you could ask me to help”. I asked one of the people in the village (who I repair vehicles for) if they could arrange for me to drop off the scrap timber from the old fence, cheeky sod just turned up & did it :p

Walked into our primary intake substation and came face to face with this just behind the 24MVA 12kV panel. CBRE have a new problem to deal with!

Out in a warehouse staff car park tonight, Paula has broken down so standard drop everything and rescue fox away!

Fitting the cable containment before we run 7 500mm2 cables from the LV side of a transformer to this 1600a breaker then from the breaker to a set of busbar extensions in an LV panel then it’s just the 3x1x90mm2 13kV cable to terminate in the back of an HV breaker & to the HV side of the transformer

End of an era, all the kit is collected from the CFz stores. It was a bit bittersweet because three of the four of us that did the main move were the original build team that built them when I first designed them 15 years ago.

This is entirely true and as I am both damned if I do and damned if I don’t respond I will Just leave this here as it may help determine who is telling the truth.

Having tripping issues with a £5M lathe because the hydraulic oil is overheating, proper field engineering covering the hydraulic tank in heat sinks. A dozen of these and some decent fans should keep it running while we get a new, bigger chiller.

On a different note, I take an elderly neighbours car for MOT (I can use the ATLs at a local centre myself after hours) and I’m greeted with what I assumed were Transit droppings…. I made a joke to the owner about transit droppings only to be corrected in that they are movano droppings!

Read through this, owning the situation would have meant apologising to me, this is basically “we went about it the wrong way but we still fired the person that had the guts to speak up and challenge us”

Ookayyy - Confuzzled Management issues and my resignation Send Skeet