Help with board change??

[swaley]

hey guys just been sent a picture of a Board a customer needs changing tomorrow. I believe the grey one is a old 4 way board. But unsure what the one on the right is? Any ideas not ever come across one before.

 

[littlespark]

I don’t know if anyone’s mentioned, but those rewirable fuses may contain an asbestos flash pad.
Search for it on other threads

 

[Taylortwocities]

Why would the supply need upgrading. It’s just a board switch, or is there more to it?

 

[Taylortwocities]

Why would the supply need upgrading? It’s just a board switch, or is there more to it?

 

[Which One’s Live?]

The cream coloured box is a so-called “biscuit tin” which has the main DNO fuse inside. These type don’t usually have asbestos, but you never know. The common problem is historic bitumen/compound leak which, when hardened, may make removing the fuse very difficult or impossible.

It looks like it connects to the isolator via that black tube on the left, but I’m not certain.

Also, the red/black cables look like old rubber type sheathing. They’d need upgrading if so, on the metering side.

 

[swaley]

Could be supply somehow in to the beige box, tails to meter then from meter via the beige box through coupler to feed the grey box, but I am assuming so you need to go to site to do a visual check.

This is what I suspect it’s just tails are returning from meter through beige box into grey. The supply earth has me puzzled

 

[Which One’s Live?]

I’ve often seen the terminals in the “biscuit tin” used as a neutral and/or live path for the consumer unit. Shouldn’t really be like that, but it’s fairly common. I’ll try upload a pic if I can.

 

[Which One’s Live?]

I suspect this is (something like) what is going on inside that box.

 

[Des 56]

The cream coloured box was part of a very common set up,it had a metal clad fuse board bolted to the side,common in thousands of council properties

 

[Squid]

The cream coloured box was part of a very common set up,it had a metal clad fuse board bolted to the side,common in thousands of council properties

Was it the feed in or a connection box out of interest, never did any council work myself.

 

[MFS Electrical]

hey guys just been sent a picture of a Board a customer needs changing tomorrow. I believe the grey one is a old 4 way board. But unsure what the one on the right is? Any ideas not ever come across one before.

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Careful... there’s a high chance the small MEM board on the right has asbestos flash guards

 

[Jjc]

The grey box is a 4 Way Enclosed Metal Fusebox. Take the lid off and you may find some 1960's fuse wire in there.

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Watch out for asbestos in the fuse carrier

 

[Taylortwocities]

Watch out for asbestos in the fuse carrier

That’s already been mentioned twice.

 

[Squid]

Odd as why my post was quoted and I never mentioned asbestos, its low level stuff I tried it on the ex wife and she's still around her husband keeps on about it to me........

 

[Toneyz]

Could be, maybe, looks like, the O.P. needs to have an on-site visit.

 

[Squid]

I think we worked that one out a while back.