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!!

 

[Stroppy]

It looks perfectly serviceable - leave it in place and use it as your isolator after the meter!

 

[jackthom]

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

Looks like the one we had in the house where I grew up in the 50's. I drove my perents mad turning the springy switch OFF and ON.

 

[richard.cs]

Can you give us its rough dimensions, it's hard to tell the size from the photo. I would definately say 30's, and depending on the size it may contain fuses or just a large double-pole switch. I've got a very similar looking one that's just a switch, but with huge seperation between the contacts and an impressive spring action - probably intended for D.C. mains.

In that era fuses would be on both L and N and probably rewirable.

 

[markc123]

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

rattlehead85 - i'd hate to think you've chucked something like that away, its an antique, keep it!! amazing condition considering the age. Love it.

 

[Silly Sausage]

I think I've got one those in me garage.
Got to be pre 50s at least.

Self disconnected years ago when the white supply flex pinned to the garden wall got fried on one of my bonfire nights.

 

[MDJ]

Give it to the new guy who had a belt off the radiator lol, he can do an experiment with it chuckle

 

[GLENNSPARK]

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

well the round dolly/toggle switches were manufactured until 1967...
crabtree were a major manufacturer...as were landor and volex

 

[GLENNSPARK]

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!!

well...i think the Wylex BS3036 type C/U came about in..i think 1953 or 1958...

 

[telectrix]

it's difficult to age that because it's cast iron. if it was paper, you'd age it by exposure to UV light and rub some dirt in it. if it was wood, you'd age it by hitting it with a bike chain and a hammer, but that would probably break it.

 

[bigbaddave]

Give it to the new guy who had a belt off the radiator lol, he can do an experiment with it chuckle

Seriously was that kid for real.... I want my 30 mins back

 

[rattlehead85]

Give it to the new guy who had a belt off the radiator lol, he can do an experiment with it chuckle

Seriously was that kid for real.... I want my 30 mins back

You get 'em sometimes. We had a doughnut on here over xmas talkin' nonsense about a fan install claiming he was a qualified spark. He got dissed by so many people he then tried to claim he was on a wind up!!

 

[GLENNSPARK]

it's difficult to age that because it's cast iron. if it was paper, you'd age it by exposure to UV light and rub some dirt in it. if it was wood, you'd age it by hitting it with a bike chain and a hammer, but that would probably break it.

saying that Tel....if you belted a piece off it...then looked at it under a microscope....if its a `dirty` iron...that would suggest maybe post war production (scrap iron reused)...

 

[markc123]

It's annoying when they're on here giving it large, and then the brief aftermath where we all bitch and complain.

...but when they're not here, and the forum is dead for a while, i think we all slightly miss them kinda chancers lol

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...just glad Glenn wasn't online, when that dave thread was going...with glenn's language, he'd of definitley had an infraction or 50 haha.

 

[grantr37]

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.

That thing is worth money, hope you didn't dump it........there's a few museums would like it for part of an old industrial display...