Just a bit of history few snippits from the electric guide 10th addition

[nickblake]

 

[Guest123]

Thats great Nick.

 

[nickblake]

Ill have to see if i can take pics of the whole book so intresting and read the text on light switches they used neon screwdrivers lol , dam ive missed the best pic how to change a fuse just a tick

 

[nickblake]

Just love this one

 

[Guest123]

So that where I've been going wrong, I never stand on a box!!!

They also advocate fused neutrals!

 

[Darkwood]

good show, think theres still a few dinosaur sparkies out there following this version and supprised to see the neon tester has had such a long history and still surviving against all odds.

 

[telectrix]

So that where I've been going wrong, I never stand on a box!!!

They also advocate fused neutrals!

so, in 50 years, when we're all long gone from the trade, will future sparks treat the 17th as a comic, something our grandparents swore by

 

[rocker]

Awww it's sweeeeet. Oh! for a simpler time.

 

[martysparky]

That neon is shocking. lol

Hey, that would make a great pdf if all scanned up.

go retro on ya i-pad

ha, it does look like a comic mind. bless

 

[Sav]

Thats the guide i am going by !!!!!!
I knew that short 3 day become a sparky course was to good to be true !!

Sav
x

 

[rocker]

so, in 50 years, when we're all long gone from the trade, will future sparks treat the 17th as a comic, something our grandparents swore by

Probably. My mate's a molecular chemist and the stuff they are working on now blows the mind! Nano-wires! Teeny tiny wires, invisible to the naked eye, insulated, you'll be amazed to know, with Febreeze and capable of carrying massive current. The cable calcs get a bit complicated, mind, you don't just get 'this thickness can carry 10 amps and this thicker one can carry 20...' you get one type of wire that would take 6 amps or 101.5 amps, but if you tried to put, say, 20 amps down it, there would be a catastrophic explosion. Another type of wire would take 20 amps, but not 16 and so on.
Confusing stuff, this nano technology.

 

[nickblake]

think ill have to try and scan it all in , if im not mistaken it dates back to the 30's there is 48 pages so may take a while but ill see what i can do, the one bit i do like is changing the fuse , pic of guy on the box , where it states in an emergency use a single strand from a piece of flex that will do for the 5 amp , its no wonder we find every thing under the sun instead of fuse wire lol

 

[cagedanimal2010]

love it !!!!!

 

[Phil]

cheers nick. i love looking through the older stuff.

 

[martysparky]

think ill have to try and scan it all in , if im not mistaken it dates back to the 30's there is 48 pages so may take a while but ill see what i can do lol

I'm sure we are all looking forwards to that.