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:

 

[LewisM]

Another lug heatshrank too low meaning one got super hot and burnt the heat shrink off

Before

After

 

[littlespark]

Saw this for sale and soon realised the seller had the terminology wrong…

Battery… not “wireless”…. Or does it need to be connected to local Wi-Fi or mobile data??

 

[brianmoooore]

Not the current normal usage of "wireless", but if it can be described as cordless (an imported US term?), it surely can alternatively be described as wireless.

 

[LewisM]

Fusebox age? 1920s?

 

[DPG]

Fusebox age? 1920s?



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Very nice. Lucien would have definitely been interested in that one.

 

[Mike Johnson]

Isn't Lucien's museum still up and running?

 

[ipf]

Lovely. Looks in great nick.
Maybe 'whoever' should have changed that beauty when they carried out the rewire........60 or 70 years ago.

 

[westward10]

That circular wooden plinth would have been the base for an old toggle switch. Has no holes drilled for the wires so must be a joint box, never seen that before.

 

[nicebutdim]

So nice they framed it.

 

[Dustydazzler]

...you can't beat a nice bit of textured wallpaper

 

[Simon47]

Maybe 'whoever' should have changed that beauty when they carried out the rewire........60 or 70 years ago.

Or perhaps it's just been kept for show.
If you go to Beamish Museum, in the 1900s town, in the cellar of the bank, you'll find this.
I do wonder if it's genuine, or just random bits tgrown in for show.

 

[ipf]

That circular wooden plinth would have been the base for an old toggle switch. Has no holes drilled for the wires so must be a joint box, never seen that before.

Like this, found last week...?





Switching this...

 

[Dustydazzler]

There can't be that many houses left with all the original wiring and original bakelite switches and fittings still in active working order. Some of this wiring must be over 100 years old now...

 

[Simon47]

At our church we have "modern" wiring - imperial T&E (or T no E on the lights), but they used the old switches where visible to fit in with the aesthetics. Not that there would have been any lecky when it was built 200 years ago, that only arrived in the 70s.

 

[littlespark]

There is only one way to get that old ceiling rose down….

Hammer time!