Can anyone age this piece of kit??

[bigbaddave]

Can anybody help with ageing this piece of kit..

 

[Deleted member 26818]

No sorry, can't see it clearly enough.

 

[Thefailsafe2012]

Not as old as the camera you used to take that :bucktooth:

 

[Rampantchilli]

not sure, id guess around 1930-1940

 

[Octopus]

Is it a door bell transformer?

 

[bigbaddave]

No Defiantly not a door bell tranny, Its a TT system and the meter feeds this then feeds two fuses.. Original Electrics with toggle switches.. Guys not sure when the house was built..

Its roughly 15cm x 30cm

 

[dan86]

pics are too small to see clearly

 

[dim_bulb]

Looks like a burnt piece of toast someone has thrown on the wall

 

[telectrix]

is it a bill isolator? a clearer pic would help.

 

[Deleted member 26818]

It's too high up to stick bills into.

 

[Rampantchilli]

is it a bill isolator? a clearer pic would help.

thats what i thought, with maybe fused neutrals

 

[rattlehead85]

probably as old as this 80 year old board i removed from a flat last month. It looks similar.

 

[bigbaddave]

View attachment 16516View attachment 16517probably as old as this 80 year old board i removed from a flat last month. It looks similar.

What that still is use?

 

[MDJ]

1940s at a guess

 

[rattlehead85]

View attachment 16516View attachment 16517probably as old as this 80 year old board i removed from a flat last month. It looks similar.

What that still is use?

Yep was indeed. The imperial V.R.I feeding it was 7/.052 and was solid. As soon as i moved it all the insulation crumbled away. We ended up having to run a new 16mm 3 core back to the ground floor flat intake position which was a pig!! as well as causing a stink with the tenant living there.

 

[bigbaddave]

Yep was indeed. The imperial V.R.I feeding it was 7/.052 and was solid. As soon as i moved it all the insulation crumbled away. We ended up having to run a new 16mm 3 core back to the ground floor flat intake position which was a pig!! as well as causing a stink with the tenant living there.

Crazy how people can live so long with the gear in that condition, I am pricing a job with this bit of kit in there are the guy said "Does it need a rewire" ?

Place aint been touched since it was installed, Id estimate 1940's with toggle switches. Cable that bad its not possible to energise

 

[ayjay]

its a perfect 1945-ish metal clad switchfuse
just bridge the neutral fuse and reuse it, the switch action is great, like those old brass sping loaded light switches

cast iron

 

[barneybhoy]

It looks like bill switchgear, probably from mid 50s

 

[ayjay]

ohh no its not

 

[Engineer54]

That unit is from the middle 1930's rather than the 40's, though it may have been sitting on the shelf during the war years. ..lol!!! I can assure you it's not from the 50's.... lol!!