Dodgy trade pictures for your amusement! - 1 Million Views!

[Darkwood]

Right ... Just been nudged to set this up by Paul.M and sounds a good idea following recent threads I've done in the Arms..

Rules....No Offensive material... edit if required before posting as this is the public arena.
Anything to do with the trade or in and around it ...H&S pic's welcome.



I've posted this a few times and this is at a mates house following a kitchen refirb several yrs ago. mg_smile:

 

[pc1966]

Like this, found last week...?

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Similar one at my parents, though it is fed in T&E from around 1970 but switch predated that by some decades.

 

[brianmoooore]

Like this, found last week...?

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A little depressing when you see stuff posted on here as antiques, that you've fitted as new.
Later versions of these switches has similar switch mechanisms inside to modern plate switches, but earlier versions had a totally different underslung over centre mechanism that gave a fast make and fast break, which was suitable for switching DC as well as AC.

 

[richy3333]

New extension and old house refurbished. Builder moved service head himself and made the access hatch sooo small everything is inaccessible. Electrical work was done by a sparky Cable outside on the roofing tin was found to be live and just taped up.

Builders had a melt because the works been callled out!

 

[bill01803]

That is going to take some sorting!!!

 

[Mike Johnson]

OK I will bite, what are those grey oblong terminal blocks above the RCBO's, not part of them as they don't line up, been out of the game for a while, I know the orange thing on the right, but those blocks are a new one on me. (surge protection maybe ?)

 

[DPG]

OK I will bite, what are those grey oblong terminal blocks above the RCBO's, not part of them as they don't line up, been out of the game for a while, I know the orange thing on the right, but those blocks are a new one on me.

Aren't they just tall RCBOs?

 

[Mike Johnson]

Aren't they just tall RCBOs?

I thought that, but the don't line through, so must be a separate unit? Looking again the top part is stepped back from the lower part so could be an optical illusion.

 

[timhoward]

I thought that, but the don't line through, so must be a separate unit? Looking again the top part is stepped back from the lower part so could be an optical illusion.

Optical illusion.

 

[Mike Johnson]

Optical illusion.

I resemble that remark.

 

[ipf]

Slight angle from centre of the photo.
You live and learn, eh.

What’s that small one in the middle with the white push button?

 

[DPG]

Slight angle from centre of the photo.
You live and learn, eh.

What’s that small one in the middle with the white push button?

Deleted. Missed the humour there

 

[Mike Johnson]

All the adverts are back.

 

[freddo]

All the adverts are back.

Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooop!

 

[mainline]

I thought that, but the don't line through, so must be a separate unit? Looking again the top part is stepped back from the lower part so could be an optical illusion.

May have been a flash advert

 

[timhoward]

I went on the internet today, and I found this: