I have an old reddifusion switch on a wall which i want to remove but its still live..can anyone advise please

[Michael8240]

How can I remove an old reddifusion switch from a wall which is still live..thanks

 

[Michael8240]

Nice! The service went offline years ago, so just chop the wires and fill the hole. Any chance of a photo of the front of the plate? Reddifusion was only really available in Exeter here so don't often get to see the fittings now most have gone, that plate looks quite modern compared to the few I've seen.

I live in Leicester and my mum and dad had one back in the 1980's

 

[ruston]

Nice! The service went offline years ago, so just chop the wires and fill the hole. Any chance of a photo of the front of the plate? Reddifusion was only really available in Exeter here so don't often get to see the fittings now most have gone, that plate looks quite modern compared to the few I've seen.

Yes , 1984 on the pic.
Some of the old terraced properties still have the cables on the outside walls up here , even the junction boxes.

 

[freddo]

I live in Leicester and my mum and dad had one back in the 1980's

Thanks, that certainly looks more modern and purpose made, the few I've seen have all been a surface box with a hole drilled in it to mount an off the shelf rotary switch.

 

[Michael8240]

Thanks, that certainly looks more modern and purpose made, the few I've seen have all been a surface box with a hole drilled in it to mount an off the shelf rotary switch.

Ok...just cut it back and I'm still alive lol so thanks for your help mate

 

[telectrix]

2 photos....1st is to show how far away from corner of room

all dead. no mains cabling in there.

 

[Lucien Nunes]

If you've still got it, would you be amenable to me paying for you to post it to us for the museum?

 

[static zap]

I live in Leicester and my mum and dad had one back in the 1980's

I'm having similar thoughts for Hastings / Bexhill .. some still about !

 

[littlespark]

Call me naive...
What did that do? Was it a way to change channels on old tv’s?

my parents house had some form of communally cabled tv signal back in the early 70’s.... only lasted a few years, until they put up an aerial.
Back in the day when they rented a tv from a local shop.

 

[pc1966]

Radio Rentals. My parents used them for some years a long time back.

 

[telectrix]

Call me naive...
What did that do? Was it a way to change channels on old tv’s?

my parents house had some form of communally cabled tv signal back in the early 70’s.... only lasted a few years, until they put up an aerial.
Back in the day when they rented a tv from a local shop.

it was a TV switch. the Rediffusion TVs didn't have tuners. this was done upstream. al the TVs were modular construction. in the field, we replaced a faulty panel, returning the fauly one for the workshop guys to repair and re-issue. 5 times out of 10, the replacement "repaired" panel was worse than the one we were replacing.

 

[stevels4]

it was a TV switch. the Rediffusion TVs didn't have tuners. this was done upstream. al the TVs were modular construction. in the field, we replaced a faulty panel, returning the fauly one for the workshop guys to repair and re-issue. 5 times out of 10, the replacement "repaired" panel was worse than the one we were replacing.

The old MK1 hybrid colour TVs with the decoder boards that the colour dropped out all the time, croc clip across the test pins and turn the trimmer for the slowest Hanover bars. Rediffusion cable TV IIRC had 10V or 14V DC on the vision channels and 50VDC on the radio channels. It will be well dead by now, chop it and remove it.