Gigantic Purple Slug Posted September 11, 2015 Share Posted September 11, 2015 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3229358/Broke-students-post-pictures-strange-ways-save-money.html I'm sure HPC could give these guys a run for their money. How about the poster who made an international space station out of a fridge and didn't someone the other day roast some roadkill in a volcanic crater or something ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrPin Posted September 11, 2015 Share Posted September 11, 2015 A "wife" is not a money saving device. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bossybabe Posted September 11, 2015 Share Posted September 11, 2015 A "wife" is not a money saving device. ??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happy_renting Posted September 11, 2015 Share Posted September 11, 2015 A piggy bank is a money-saving device. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bovinedealer Posted September 11, 2015 Share Posted September 11, 2015 Apparently if you put magnets aroung an electricity meter it slows down or stop the meter from turning. That's what vids on yout ube state.. No idea if it's true, can't yet find enough magnets to try it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gigantic Purple Slug Posted September 11, 2015 Author Share Posted September 11, 2015 Apparently if you put magnets aroung an electricity meter it slows down or stop the meter from turning. That's what vids on yout ube state.. No idea if it's true, can't yet find enough magnets to try it! That could work if the bits that rotate are made of metal either through ferromagnetic attraction or through eddy current effects. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happy_renting Posted September 11, 2015 Share Posted September 11, 2015 As a child, I had one of these piggy banks. When you put a coin in, a lever lifted the top hat. I grew up thinking that bankers were fat, ugly, greedy, money grabbing pigs that wore top hats. I was so wrong about the top hats. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Northerner Posted September 11, 2015 Share Posted September 11, 2015 It is not about devices, more a way of life ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
knock out johnny Posted September 11, 2015 Share Posted September 11, 2015 Apparently if you put magnets aroung an electricity meter it slows down or stop the meter from turning. That's what vids on yout ube state.. No idea if it's true, can't yet find enough magnets to try it! Or the old trick of filling up the dial compartment with washing up liquid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bovinedealer Posted September 11, 2015 Share Posted September 11, 2015 Or the old trick of filling up the dial compartment with washing up liquid. Wow never heard of that one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happy_renting Posted September 11, 2015 Share Posted September 11, 2015 The mods were quick off the mark, and took down a video posted by someone (not me) showing how to fiddle an electricity meter using magnets. And clear in the background, hanging on the wall, was a devotion picture to the Most Sacred heart of Jesus. I was going to ask how many Hail Mary's stealing electricity was worth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrPin Posted September 11, 2015 Share Posted September 11, 2015 The mods were quick off the mark, and took down a video posted by someone (not me) showing how to fiddle an electricity meter using magnets. And clear in the background, hanging on the wall, was a devotion picture to the Most Sacred heart of Jesus. I was going to ask how many Hail Mary's stealing electricity was worth. It's quite OK to steal Protestant Electricity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gigantic Purple Slug Posted September 11, 2015 Author Share Posted September 11, 2015 It's quite OK to steal Protestant Electricity. You don't steal electricity, you abstract it. Since God said thout shalt not steal, you might argue yourself free from Hail Marys on a technicality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bossybabe Posted September 11, 2015 Share Posted September 11, 2015 That could work if the bits that rotate are made of metal either through ferromagnetic attraction or through eddy current effects. Knowing my luck, the magnets would accelerate the meter and I'd end up paying more. ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happy_renting Posted September 11, 2015 Share Posted September 11, 2015 You don't steal electricity, you abstract it. Since God said thout shalt not steal, you might argue yourself free from Hail Marys on a technicality. Yes, the concept of stealing electricity is rather odd. After all, it goes round a circuit, so always ends up back where it started. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidg Posted September 11, 2015 Share Posted September 11, 2015 You don't steal electricity, you abstract it. Since God said thout shalt not steal, you might argue yourself free from Hail Marys on a technicality. Look it is not the electricity co.s electricity, it belongs to Allah so everyone can use it, or at least that's what a guy from Sweden told me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frozen_out Posted September 11, 2015 Share Posted September 11, 2015 My nan had her gas meter on a box on its side for years for the same reason. This was back in the day when they weren't fixed to the wall. I had to call time on the scam when I went round to her house one day and could smell gas. Turned out the flexible pipe had developed a leak and rather than call BG who would have fixed it to the wall she'd decided she preferred cheap gas over her safety and tried to fix the leak with parcel tape. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frozen_out Posted September 11, 2015 Share Posted September 11, 2015 Another meter related scam was carried out by my dad in the 60s. He found out that pieces of lino cut to the same size as a coin worked just as well in the meter as the real thing. He was very proud of having the only meter that rattled rather than jingled when it was emptied. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freeholder Posted September 11, 2015 Share Posted September 11, 2015 Years ago, I don't know about now, gas meters used to have the same fitting on the inlet and the outlet. I once asked a man who had a meter running backwards how he dealt with the matter of leaking gas when he was reversing it. He said he just did it quickly. That is heroic parsimony. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SNACR Posted September 11, 2015 Share Posted September 11, 2015 Power companies are such shysters themselves, these days, I'd deem them fair game for any sort of scam. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lewis Gordon Pugh Posted September 11, 2015 Share Posted September 11, 2015 Apparently if you put magnets aroung an electricity meter it slows down or stop the meter from turning. That's what vids on yout ube state.. No idea if it's true, can't yet find enough magnets to try it! Turn a gas meter on its side and it stops counting gas. The old ones did anyway...apparently. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StainlessSteelCat Posted September 12, 2015 Share Posted September 12, 2015 Another meter related scam was carried out by my dad in the 60s. He found out that pieces of lino cut to the same size as a coin worked just as well in the meter as the real thing. He was very proud of having the only meter that rattled rather than jingled when it was emptied. I'm sure this is an apocryphal story but it was also the case you could cast 50p pieces out of ice and do the same. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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