Grub screws - awesome invention or useless pile of sh*te, discuss
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Grub screws - awesome invention or useless pile of sh*te, discuss
I've just spent an hour taking down an old light fitting and wiring in the new one. Everything was going swimmingly well until I attempted to screw the rose cover bit on which is fastened on with two minute grub screws.
Bear in mind I'm doing this on my own whilst balancing on the kitchen table with the light fitting on my head and trying to hold that and the screwdriver AND the bloody grub screw so that I can get the thing in. Will it go? NO
I realise that maybe I should've waited until I had some help but for gawds sake, it's not exactly rocket science fitting a light is it? If it wasn't for the stupid grub screws it would now be fitted, as it is at the moment it's hanging by the wires and I've lost the will to live
Someone please suggest how I'm supposed to hold the heavy four spot light fitting, a grub screw, my balance and a screwdriver all at the same time and get the stupid thing in the hole
Either that or can someone please come round and help me?
Thanks for listening
Bear in mind I'm doing this on my own whilst balancing on the kitchen table with the light fitting on my head and trying to hold that and the screwdriver AND the bloody grub screw so that I can get the thing in. Will it go? NO
I realise that maybe I should've waited until I had some help but for gawds sake, it's not exactly rocket science fitting a light is it? If it wasn't for the stupid grub screws it would now be fitted, as it is at the moment it's hanging by the wires and I've lost the will to live
Someone please suggest how I'm supposed to hold the heavy four spot light fitting, a grub screw, my balance and a screwdriver all at the same time and get the stupid thing in the hole
Either that or can someone please come round and help me?
Thanks for listening
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Which is why you now get lightfittings that have a two piece rose fitting that consists of a plate that you screw to the ceiling with a threaded flange and then the cover screws into the base. Job done
Rather like those bell end tax disc holders for your scoob that first came out with some god awful ***** ****ing tiny tiny weeny screws and a tiny tiny weeny allen key that meant if you placed the holder down on the windscreen you couldnt access the bottom two screws
Now, well the same tax disc holders come in a screw on format. Now why didnt they think of that in the first place.
Now grub worms, well they are a complete different story
Rather like those bell end tax disc holders for your scoob that first came out with some god awful ***** ****ing tiny tiny weeny screws and a tiny tiny weeny allen key that meant if you placed the holder down on the windscreen you couldnt access the bottom two screws
Now, well the same tax disc holders come in a screw on format. Now why didnt they think of that in the first place.
Now grub worms, well they are a complete different story
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I've just spent an hour taking down an old light fitting and wiring in the new one. Everything was going swimmingly well until I attempted to screw the rose cover bit on which is fastened on with two minute grub screws.
Bear in mind I'm doing this on my own whilst balancing on the kitchen table with the light fitting on my head and trying to hold that and the screwdriver AND the bloody grub screw so that I can get the thing in. Will it go? NO
I realise that maybe I should've waited until I had some help but for gawds sake, it's not exactly rocket science fitting a light is it? If it wasn't for the stupid grub screws it would now be fitted, as it is at the moment it's hanging by the wires and I've lost the will to live
Someone please suggest how I'm supposed to hold the heavy four spot light fitting, a grub screw, my balance and a screwdriver all at the same time and get the stupid thing in the hole
Either that or can someone please come round and help me?
Thanks for listening
Bear in mind I'm doing this on my own whilst balancing on the kitchen table with the light fitting on my head and trying to hold that and the screwdriver AND the bloody grub screw so that I can get the thing in. Will it go? NO
I realise that maybe I should've waited until I had some help but for gawds sake, it's not exactly rocket science fitting a light is it? If it wasn't for the stupid grub screws it would now be fitted, as it is at the moment it's hanging by the wires and I've lost the will to live
Someone please suggest how I'm supposed to hold the heavy four spot light fitting, a grub screw, my balance and a screwdriver all at the same time and get the stupid thing in the hole
Either that or can someone please come round and help me?
Thanks for listening
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Done it
I'd tightened the base plate a little too tightly into the wood (old plank and beamed ceiling) and unbeknown to me the plank wasn't quite flat which was why I was struggling so badly. I loosened the base plate off slightly and used my magnetic chubby screwdriver and in they went (albeit a bit cross threaded ).
So now I have one lovely, if ever so slightly wonky antique nickel finished, old fashioned but modern, metal spotlight thingy which looks a zillion times better than the hideous Ikea thing which it has replaced It's such a shame that the ceiling is a bit wonky *ahem*
Unfortunately I dropped one of the stupidly expensive bulbs whilst fitting it into the bulb holder but luckily it landed on the cushion on the table that I was kneeling on. Then it bounced off, rolled to the edge of the table and exploded into a million pieces on the floor
Fortunately I knew that I'd break at least one so bought an extra six
Oh and I've grazed my knuckle but I've no idea how
Thanks for all your help
I'd tightened the base plate a little too tightly into the wood (old plank and beamed ceiling) and unbeknown to me the plank wasn't quite flat which was why I was struggling so badly. I loosened the base plate off slightly and used my magnetic chubby screwdriver and in they went (albeit a bit cross threaded ).
So now I have one lovely, if ever so slightly wonky antique nickel finished, old fashioned but modern, metal spotlight thingy which looks a zillion times better than the hideous Ikea thing which it has replaced It's such a shame that the ceiling is a bit wonky *ahem*
Unfortunately I dropped one of the stupidly expensive bulbs whilst fitting it into the bulb holder but luckily it landed on the cushion on the table that I was kneeling on. Then it bounced off, rolled to the edge of the table and exploded into a million pieces on the floor
Fortunately I knew that I'd break at least one so bought an extra six
Oh and I've grazed my knuckle but I've no idea how
Thanks for all your help
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They are most probably brass and as all MEN know.... they have dubious ferro-magnetic properties.
You have broken so many NICEIC and H&S rules that if your house burns down many "experts" will have to be called in, maybe even the Air Accident Investigators, when you attract passing Hawks with your flickery lighting antics.
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You have broken so many NICEIC and H&S rules that if your house burns down many "experts" will have to be called in, maybe even the Air Accident Investigators, when you attract passing Hawks with your flickery lighting antics.
LOL
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I've just spent an hour taking down an old light fitting and wiring in the new one. Everything was going swimmingly well until I attempted to screw the rose cover bit on which is fastened on with two minute grub screws.
Bear in mind I'm doing this on my own whilst balancing on the kitchen table with the light fitting on my head and trying to hold that and the screwdriver AND the bloody grub screw so that I can get the thing in. Will it go? NO
I realise that maybe I should've waited until I had some help but for gawds sake, it's not exactly rocket science fitting a light is it? If it wasn't for the stupid grub screws it would now be fitted, as it is at the moment it's hanging by the wires and I've lost the will to live
Someone please suggest how I'm supposed to hold the heavy four spot light fitting, a grub screw, my balance and a screwdriver all at the same time and get the stupid thing in the hole
Either that or can someone please come round and help me?
Thanks for listening
Bear in mind I'm doing this on my own whilst balancing on the kitchen table with the light fitting on my head and trying to hold that and the screwdriver AND the bloody grub screw so that I can get the thing in. Will it go? NO
I realise that maybe I should've waited until I had some help but for gawds sake, it's not exactly rocket science fitting a light is it? If it wasn't for the stupid grub screws it would now be fitted, as it is at the moment it's hanging by the wires and I've lost the will to live
Someone please suggest how I'm supposed to hold the heavy four spot light fitting, a grub screw, my balance and a screwdriver all at the same time and get the stupid thing in the hole
Either that or can someone please come round and help me?
Thanks for listening
Whilst you wuz on this table like, balancing precariously, what wuz youse wearing?
<blokes solution>
Hit it wiv a hammer until it a) fits or b) breaks. If "b)", throw in bin muttering "useless foreign muck", replace with "sturdier" item.
</blokes solution>
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Fitting a light on your own can be seriously tilting!! As you say, you have to hold and balance about 10 different things whilst standing on a dodgy chair with your arms above your head and usually in the dark with a torch in your mouth