Anyone can fix an MICC cable leading to a light switch in my house (London, N6)?

[UNG]

Have never know MICC to be used domestically except as a sub main up a tenement building in Edinburgh.

Sometime around the I think late 50's / early 60's BICC produced the Octpus wiring system which was used for wiring flats I believe it had a central box and all the cables were terminated into it this was laid out on the shuttering and the cables laid out to there various positions before the concrete was poured. A friend of my mum worked at the BICC factory in Prescot terminating the ends on piece work and was paid something like 3d per end it doesn't sound a lot but they could terminate upto 20 ends per hour. I remember seeing the film at college back in the 70's and it was amazing how they did it

Around Prescot you quite often find the odd older house wired in MICC usually the owner or past owner worked at the MICC part of the factory or were a relative of someone who worked there

 

[ipf]

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Sometime around the I think late 50's / early 60's BICC produced the Octpus wiring system which was used for wiring flats I believe it had a central box and all the cables were terminated into it this was laid out on the shuttering and the cables laid out to there various positions before the concrete was poured. A friend of my mum worked at the BICC factory in Prescot terminating the ends on piece work and was paid something like 3d per end it doesn't sound a lot but they could terminate upto 20 ends per hour. I remember seeing the film at college back in the 70's and it was amazing how they did it

A penny a minute, 5 bob an hour, eh?
Must have been in the fifties UNG, maybe early 60’s, though.
I remember the octopus, they used loads in 60’s high rise flats.

 

[ipf]

Why the insulated lugs with metal screws in the switch back box?

It's still not clear to me where, exactly, the wires have broken.

 

[7029 dave]

Never liked this type of MICC clamp switch box, they were always shallow not designed for dimmers etc.
The better way would of been to use full terminations Micc glands then pot and coupler and bush into a standard deeper box .

 

[ipf]

Never liked this type of MICC clamp switch box, they were always shallow not designed for dimmers etc.
The better way would of been to use full terminations Micc glands then pot and coupler and bush into a standard deeper box .

I agree.... but when that one was designed the best description of a household dimmer was a lamp getting towards the end of it's life.

 

[7029 dave]

I agree.... but when that one was designed the best description of a household dimmer was a lamp getting towards the end of it's life.

Never got on with them stupid clamp (on the pot) accessories. Used them once that was enough

 

[ipf]

Never got on with them stupid clamp (on the pot) accessories. Used them once that was enough

Hey up......look what I've found. A church attic littered with them.

Installed correctly, they had their uses, I suppose


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[7029 dave]

Hey up......look what I've found. A church attic littered with them.

Installed correctly, they had their uses, I suppose


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Nah would look better with a glanded MICC and stop end box , more expensive but a quality job lol

 

[littlespark]

Orange pvc coated MICC…. Now that’s a proper job!

Fire alarms in red as well?

 

[Dustydazzler]

I am certain that Del used on of those pancake pyro boxes on a job when he had to repair a damage pyro cable is a garage