5A wall mounting sockets

[rfears]

I look after a venerable lighting installation consisting of a large number of 5A circuits from a patch panel to various positions on the walls.

There is a need to add another position (10 circuits). I'm finding it very difficult to lay my hands on 5A sockets (apart from the Hager one which I suspect will be ridiculously expensive).

Any ideas?

P.S. the installation is not to BS7671...

 

[Knobhead]

MK still do them.

 

[malcolmsanford]

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[rfears]

Good grief, so they do. Modern form factor though, which takes up much more wall space.

Thanks for the info.

 

[harrissteve]

Electric centre still have them in catalogue, AC1069 is part number

 

[Fin170]

If you need some nicer looking ones GET ultimate/ wilts plus/ etc. do them. Most wholesalers and tlc sell them, obviously a bit pricer than above but never had trouble with the range

 

[plugsandsparks]

Don't laugh but was after some round pin plugs and ended up at B&Q, pretty sure they had the scokets as well, they were not MK which were eye wateringly expensive from the wholesaler.

 

[rfears]

Thanks for the info harrissteve, bit too far north for me (although I'm mega impressed they have a branch in Stornoway).

 

[rfears]

Thanks Fin170, I'm actually looking for the sort they sold in 1950/50's as they have a much smaller area and fit nicely into a grid.

 

[rfears]

Thanks plugsandsparks, I suspect what I am really looking for will only be found in museums and flea traders. I'll try to get a photo in the next few days The B&Q website is offeriing the MK socket on a standard single-patt fitting form at a mere £7.98 each (so my job for a local am.dram. has already gone overbudget)

Hey ho, off to the market we go!

 

[plugsandsparks]

A certain company that sells screws and fixings have the std form socket for £2.53. I actually made a mistake (memory not what it was) i actually got the plugs from my local Eyre and Elliston for less than £1 each. It was Click Scolmore PA166 (5A plug), Click dont appear to do the socket though

Found them http://www.scolmore.com/documents/mode.pdf

CMA038 is the product code, should think they will be less than screwfix if sourced from Eyre and Elliston

 

[rfears]

Thanks again plugsandsparks, I'm actually quite embarrased
a) not to have found the currently available items (those you and others have mentioned), and
b) not to have phrased my original question properly, inthat I was looking for something in the original 50/60''s form factor - horrible not quite Bakelite cause it was white, but very small, the sort of thing you find screwed onto a block of wood in pubs, etc.

My only reason for b) above is that I would like to preserve the look (and have some spares) of what we currently have - might make a museum one day.

Ideally I would scrap everything we have and rewire to moderm theatrical standards - were the round pin 15A rules OK...

 

[Knobhead]

Would like to see a photo of the panel. Old gear is a bit of a hobby for me.

 

[rfears]

Tony - I'll see what I can do

 

[ian.settle1]

Would like to see a photo of the panel. Old gear is a bit of a hobby for me.

Do you include yourself in that Tony:teeth_smile:

 

[QSGAZ]

If you need any plugs for these sockets i have a pack of ten in my garage if you want them? with a little fee of course

 

[rfears]

Here are some pics


I can't work out how to annotate the pics, so, in order, we have
1. the sort of panel I'm trying to recreate
2. the dimmer bank and its patch panel (note the gaffer tape over the dimmers that are broke and I can't get spares for...)
3. another view of the dimmer bank (16x10A, 4x20A, bespoke build for the BBC in the '60s early 70's, recovered by us from an am.dram. in Wales)
4. close up of the dimmer side patch panel
5. hall side patch panel
6. ends of a lighting loom
7. some of the fixtures (note Strand Patt.123 half a century old with modern Source 4 Juniors)
8. the 20th century stuff

 

[rfears]

QSGAZ, thanks for the offer but we have loads of plugs, its just the old style bakelite? sockets I can't find