Dodgy trade pictures for your amusement! - 1 Million Views!

freddo · Jan 26, 2018

My example isn't as well maintained!

westward10 · Jan 26, 2018

Not sure the history of Slydlok fuses but they have been around a long time. This site has two of these panels, one no longer in use but they are identical including the fuses.

freddo · Jan 26, 2018

They were certainly well advertised in the the mid to late 30s:

westward10 · Jan 26, 2018

Likely to be original on my panels maybe.

Deleted member 72666 · Jan 26, 2018

My oh my, how looks can be deceiving! I would have had them down for the late 60's! They were definitely ahead of their time.

telectrix · Jan 26, 2018

westward10 said:
Couple from a lift motor room I have been working in this week circa 1950s. One a lift control panel, not dodgy but still operating with little evidence of alterations. The second a fused line/neutral switch fuse which has a socket connected from it, cpc cut out to boot.View attachment 40442 View attachment 40443

sheer poetry.

westward10 · Jan 26, 2018

The VRI is rock hard but it is in remarkable condition and operates a tiny goods lift.

Old Tiler 43192 · Jan 27, 2018

Wilko said:
Or is it more ...

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The company that supplies this house it's utilities, is supplying and fitting, for free, high quality LED light bulbs throughout the whole house. The lamps are guaranteed for life and replaced for free if they fail.

They've fitted over 1 Million LEDs so far! which is pretty impressive, can you see e.g. SSE or BG doing that?

These fitters are their ordinary distributors who have volunteered to be paid LED fitters and have been trained on how to test (basic) that a light fitting is safe before handling, how to remove and install lamps in various types of fittings, and yes, the correct lamp handling procedures.

Pete999 · Jan 27, 2018

dksanders said:
The company that supplies this house it's utilities, is supplying and fitting, for free, high quality LED light bulbs throughout the whole house. The lamps are guaranteed for life and replaced for free if they fail.

They've fitted over 1 Million LEDs so far! which is pretty impressive, can you see e.g. SSE or BG doing that?

These fitters are their ordinary distributors who have volunteered to be paid LED fitters and have been trained on how to test (basic) that a light fitting is safe before handling, how to remove and install lamps in various types of fittings, and yes, the correct lamp handling procedures.

Is there is a C&Gs for that skill, need to watch the Sams will be on to that like flies on a Cow pat

DPG · Jan 27, 2018

He means scams.

ipf · Jan 27, 2018

DPG said:
He means scams.

.....scams round a cow pat?

...or flies round scams?

westward10 · Feb 1, 2018

Not everyday you see something unusual but I have never seen one of these. From the outside it looks like any other MEM Exel switch-fuse but inside we have a small dist board.

Lucien Nunes · Feb 1, 2018

That goods lift controller could be anything up to late 50s, those doughnut contactors are pretty timeless. And yes, the Slydloks are original, they were standard on Evans controllers. Slydloks were specced on a lot of WW2 W^D kit, which I guess helped cement their presence throughout the industry.

So on the left you have the line contactors for the stator, up and down, which are electrically and mechanically interlocked (the interlock bar runs behind the panel). On the right are two rotor resistance contactors, with timing dashpots. The stator is switched DOL, with both steps of rotor resistance in circuit, and one rotor contactor is energised but the dashpot delays it closing. When it closes, one step is cut out and the next contactor is energised. When that closes the second step is cut out i.e. the sliprings are shorted together for full speed. The line contactor auxiliaries also control the brake and lock circuit.

It looks like there are both fast and slow limits for each floor in the selector, as there are terminals UP /DN / UPS / DNS. As the car approaches the floor I expect the first drops out both rotor contactors, then the levelling limit drops the line con.

Freddo's controller is older and uses doughnut contactors for the floor relays. Any clues to the make - I can't read the label and I don't recognise it. The line contactors have dashpots, presumably with a lost motion linkage so that the line and brake contacts operate immediately but the accelerating contact follows later. FWIW the fuses here look like Artic, another specialist brand found mainly in industry and ministry-spec plant.

freddo · Feb 1, 2018

Lucien Nunes said:
Any clues to the make - I can't read the label and I don't recognise it.

H O Strong & sons Bristol.

This one is not in use any more, I imagine it was taken out of service many years ago. It is in a brick shed on the roof of a local factory.

Naturally the supply is via an Ellison oil filled circuit breaker.

westward10 · Feb 2, 2018

I have also "borowed" this label, never seen one like this.

static zap · Feb 2, 2018

Oh well glance read that as Mingham...MEM glands .
(looks very posh)

Doomed · Feb 2, 2018

have I every shown these?
the one of t
he D
B is taken with me stood in the shower cubicle.

Doomed · Feb 2, 2018

And hows this for a light fitting in a living room

Yep, thats the ballast unit on the floor

Strima · Feb 2, 2018

westward10 · Feb 6, 2018

So tonight I come across this, shall I turn it off to ditch those live conductors hanging from the busbar chamber or is the main switch siezed with all the compound which has poured from the PILC cable connection.