Sometimes electricians make me sick

[The Ranger]

needs no words

 

[oldtimer]

Yep the old days Taffy just to highlight that 24 years ago I put a 8 way Wylex metal DB with circuit breakers in my house the DB was £70 and the CBs was £7 each so £126 in total yet fast forward and a 10 way dual RCD Wylex £80 buck all in and the £126 in 1988 is now worth £275-£290

 

[TaffyDuck]

oldtimer, true enough mate. i come across this often, glad to know it was standard practice all over the country. ;-). Just goes to show that the there was the clink of spurs and the smell of horse manure around before Part P. Something its easy to forget.

 

[oldtimer]

Just to add a double socket was £8 for an Ashly and £12 for a MK hence why some houses wired at the time there was one or even 2 single sockets doubles were a luxury mind I never worked in Hoose bashin as i called it I was in the commercial / industrial sector ie conduit trunking micc 3 phase DBs

 

[Engineer54]

Just to add a double socket was £8 for an Ashly and £12 for a MK hence why some houses wired at the time there was one or even 2 single sockets doubles were a luxury mind I never worked in Hoose bashin as i called it I was in the commercial / industrial sector ie conduit trunking micc 3 phase DBs

Not one of those commercial electricians that knows jack about testing and has to be told what to do by others, ....surely not??

Getting back serious...haha!! I remember those once high prices of electrical equipment and accessories. And your dead right, the older domestic installations, will often show signs of those high costs. Why you see so many socket JBs, where sockets have been added to circuits as and when funds were available.... I remember when only 2 X singles were installed to lounges as standard...lol!!!

 

[telectrix]

I remember when only 2 X singles were installed to lounges as standard...lol!!!

2!!!!! luxury. 1 15A round pin socket in the corner for the wireless and cords without plugs stuffed in. iron with a bayonet plug on it, plugged into the light pendant.

 

[Engineer54]

You must be a lot older than me Tel, .....Now your talking about mid to late 40's possibly early 50's ...lol!!

 

[jimmymac]

Wow, how old are you and how long have you been in the industry?....... I dont want the answer in roman numerals

 

[telectrix]

early 50's. was only a nipper then. we could play outside without being abducted by a paedo, climb trees, get a clout round the head from the local bobby, then a belt from da for falling foul of plod. now both would be arrested and kid taken for counselling or into care. happy days.

 

[TaffyDuck]

I was told many years ago that the ring came about in council houses built after the war with one single socket per room to allow the use of a single bar electric heater in every room, luxury knew no bounds eh. Not sure if thats an old wives tale but if it isnt true it should be.

 

[Engineer54]

early 50's. was only a nipper then. we could play outside without being abducted by a paedo, climb trees, get a clout round the head from the local bobby, then a belt from da for falling foul of plod. now both would be arrested and kid taken for counselling or into care. happy days.

SNAP!!! lol!!

 

[telectrix]

I was told many years ago that the ring main came about in council houses built after the war with one single socket per room to allow the use of a single bar electric heater in every room, luxury knew no bounds eh. Not sure if thats an old wives tale but if it isnt true it should be.

was more to do with saving cable as copper was expensive and in short supply. a 30A RFC used less cable than the equivalent ccc of 15A radials, which, frequently were installed 1 radial to 1 socket

 

[TaffyDuck]

was more to do with saving cable as copper was expensive and in short supply. a 30A RFC used less cable than the equivalent ccc of 15A radials, which, frequently were installed 1 radial to 1 socket

Makes sense.

 

[bugsy]

anybody remeber Dorman Smith round pin with screw in fuse - my first introduction to the world of electrticity - I was five and took great pleasure going round the house unscrwing them all

 

[oldtimer]

I was told many years ago that the ring came about in council houses built after the war with one single socket per room to allow the use of a single bar electric heater in every room, luxury knew no bounds eh. Not sure if thats an old wives tale but if it isnt true it should be.

It was because after the war the ration was a 2 way board 1 for lights 1 for sockets and yes to save cable there was the ring

 

[Engineer54]

anybody remeber Dorman Smith round pin with screw in fuse - my first introduction to the world of electrticity - I was five and took great pleasure going round the house unscrwing them all

Yes!! All the council houses in the early 50's used them. They never caught on and discontinued by the time the 60's arrived. The mainly single outlets was based on using a BESA conduit back box with a square flange plate, same as the D/S light switches....

There were 3 or 4 versions/designs of the then 13A new RFC. Only the present design won favour and made the standard British outlet... Those D/S fuses were dammed expensive, you could almost buy a complete 13A square pin plug top for the same money...lol!! Ended up, only woolies and the lecy board shops selling them, to all the stuffed council houses that still had them!! lol!!