RISKY WORK.
THEXITPS SWITCHIiOARI). BEING RE-BUiLT AT DESTRUCTOR. The now powerhouse at the destructor is now complete, and the work of setting back the existing city switchboard was commenced a short time-ago. Sooii the station "will, be .one step nearer the stage when the supply. from Lake Coleridge can be taken over. The process of setting back each panel is somewhat slow and tedious, but under the circumstances this cannot' be avoided, and the work is being pushed on as fast as possible. The fact that the electricians have to work with numerous live wires ■ about makes it necessary that the utmost care should ho taken, and the obvious result is that to minimise the risk; the mode of transposing the wire from one panel to another is done with great.' precaution. ■hi order to transpose a, panel, -its main wires are temporarily connected on to tho one next-door. It is then removed in sections, and built up again, upon the new iron fixings. The wires are disconnected from the temporary panel, transferred' to two new poles outside the building, and run through a new set of openings in the, wall of the building to the panel in its new position. Already live panels have been set back, and "there are a number yet to be treated in a similar manner.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 11000, 12 February 1914, Page 1
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221RISKY WORK. Star (Christchurch), Issue 11000, 12 February 1914, Page 1
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