At the moment I really need a circular saw.
Because I've built the frames for the shed ,but I need to cut a Ton of 150 X 25mm rough sawn and its so slow by hand I'm worried I'll be an old man before it's finished.
So the only choice is a Chinese circular saw from Bunnings etc etc or a good quality second hand Japanese made Saw!
So of course I'm picking second hand Japanese.
I won't buy Chinese rubbish.
Pete

I occasionally do work on automotive electrics & LED is a curse when one considers that my Ute & tractor are positive earth. I basically stood over the Twit at the local battery supplier as he had apparently never seen a positive earth anything. Naturally he wanted to disconnect & replace the negative & Positive in the wrong order.

It should be noted that one has to watch the wiring code on vehicles like a hawk. On a trailer red is actually stop lights & white ground & that has proven to be amusing with people with modern cars. We had one twit who was wiring a van: He could not understand why strange things were happening, nor would he take advice, as he was a know it all (no longer a member).

What of course was happening & I saw it from a mile off, is that by wiring one lot of lights to ground & the others to frame earth. The computer got upset & shut down the buffer feeding it.

I have noted in both tractors & road vehicles that plastic wire is starting to fail. Fergy had cloth rubber & I made up a new loom for it before it caught fire. But diesel & heat are the enemy of plastic. The plastic covered wire on the Ute's generator and dizzy have been replaced. I was of the opinion that the Regulator was responsible for the demise of D+, as it had four ohms resistance, which is why things went awry, & the wire fused: Generator survived. TE20-D tried that but as I have an ammeter on it, I spotted it & nothing got fried.

I do Tag & Test, originally t was only industrial, but by stealth it crept into everything. Basically all it translates to is "If you plug it in & turn it on: It won't kill you". However, with some of the stuff donated to (Dumped on in some cases) the Mens Shed, you have see some of it to believe it. E.g: Holes in Cable; Rotten cable; Miss wired; 3 Wire ends on a recycled vacuum cleaner cable with only two cores. Then there are the power tools: Scary.

On headlights Day or night I can usually see a minimum of 5 vehicles with incorrect usage or defective.

What is dangerous is the difficulty in getting 120V NEMA plug tops & sockets to put on 120V stuff.

It's amazing that anyone gets the colour codes for trailers and caravans wrong - it is written on the lid of every plug and socket ever sold.

Clipsal make US plug tops and sockets but they aren't polarised.

I think what happens is cars often already have issues with wiring at the back of the vehicle.
Mud , tape , broken patched mess and that gets people off on the wrong foot
Some cars are a complete ugly mess back there . But a harness is easy to understand yes
Pete

In regards to trailer plugs .
I was told by an auto electrician who has a very large business. That the Victorians are now ignoring this and are using another standard.
I find this hard to believe .Why would you,what is the point ? I am only relaying what he said.
I would have to see it to believe it.

It does seem hard to believe. It's probably more of a case of some people ignoring the standard than the standard itself changing.