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

[Darkwood]

Right ... Just been nudged to set this up by Paul.M and sounds a good idea following recent threads I've done in the Arms..

Rules....No Offensive material... edit if required before posting as this is the public arena.
Anything to do with the trade or in and around it ...H&S pic's welcome.



I've posted this a few times and this is at a mates house following a kitchen refirb several yrs ago. mg_smile:

 

[bill01803]

More SY use, apparently only six years old

 

[Dan]

GO EFFIN ON LADS AND LADIES!!!!!

This single thread alone has nearly 1 million views (956,000+ right this second)

Well done people, for making such a lovely forum that's so so busy it's ace.

Thank you.

 

[littlespark]

We could post up a “calendar girls” style naked photo shoot to get those views up.

 

[Dan]

G'wan then. You first.

 

[oscar21]

We are currently re-wiring a run down house, just your average 3 bed end terrace. Everything inside it electrically pointed to it being some sort of old commercial business, EM lights dotted about for one. but according to the new owner it wasn't, he said an old bloke lived there that was a bit mad, nothing shows up on Streeview either showing it anything but a house. I could have taken many more photos of things but this is the sort of stuff he got up to apparently.

That one is my favourite, screwed to the underneath of a floorboard, fed in alarm cable so maybe some sort of booby trap.

Secuirty light switching

Cables everywhere, these were for the CCTV

Backdoor

All that was left of the shed, it was full of electronic stuff apparently, would have loved to have a look around it but it was gone before we turned up.

And lastly a bit of switch wiring

Looks normal but it was years old and wired about 30 years ago or more, those cables are twin and earths, not 3 cores with the grey cut out. Where the hell did he get black and brown cable from?

 

[LewisM]

Another lug heatshrank too low meaning one got super hot and burnt the heat shrink off

Before

After

 

[littlespark]

Saw this for sale and soon realised the seller had the terminology wrong…

Battery… not “wireless”…. Or does it need to be connected to local Wi-Fi or mobile data??

 

[brianmoooore]

Not the current normal usage of "wireless", but if it can be described as cordless (an imported US term?), it surely can alternatively be described as wireless.

 

[LewisM]

Fusebox age? 1920s?

 

[DPG]

Fusebox age? 1920s?



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Very nice. Lucien would have definitely been interested in that one.

 

[Mike Johnson]

Isn't Lucien's museum still up and running?

 

[ipf]

Lovely. Looks in great nick.
Maybe 'whoever' should have changed that beauty when they carried out the rewire........60 or 70 years ago.

 

[westward10]

That circular wooden plinth would have been the base for an old toggle switch. Has no holes drilled for the wires so must be a joint box, never seen that before.

 

[nicebutdim]

So nice they framed it.

 

[Dustydazzler]

...you can't beat a nice bit of textured wallpaper

 

[Simon47]

Maybe 'whoever' should have changed that beauty when they carried out the rewire........60 or 70 years ago.

Or perhaps it's just been kept for show.
If you go to Beamish Museum, in the 1900s town, in the cellar of the bank, you'll find this.
I do wonder if it's genuine, or just random bits tgrown in for show.

 

[ipf]

That circular wooden plinth would have been the base for an old toggle switch. Has no holes drilled for the wires so must be a joint box, never seen that before.

Like this, found last week...?





Switching this...

 

[Dustydazzler]

There can't be that many houses left with all the original wiring and original bakelite switches and fittings still in active working order. Some of this wiring must be over 100 years old now...

 

[Simon47]

At our church we have "modern" wiring - imperial T&E (or T no E on the lights), but they used the old switches where visible to fit in with the aesthetics. Not that there would have been any lecky when it was built 200 years ago, that only arrived in the 70s.

 

[littlespark]

There is only one way to get that old ceiling rose down….

Hammer time!

 

[ipf]

'PAT Incorporated' again.
Who 'passed' this, I wonder?

 

[Simon47]

Are they actually prohibited even if fitted when they were allowed, or prohibited to be fitted ?
This site says they aren't retrospectively banned, so as a matter of ISITEE, it's not a fail to see one - even if it wasn't legally fitted in the first place.
Another site backs this up, but they "recommend" they be replaced.

 

[DPG]

Are they actually prohibited even if fitted when they were allowed, or prohibited to be fitted ?

Last ISITEE code of practice I believe recommended that plugs with non sleeved pins were swapped, but it was not mandatory to do this. Not sure about the current revision 5 of the COP though as I don't have it.

 

[Penguin]

As if being ELECTROCUTED, wasn’t Enough.!!!

 

[Penguin]

Nope..... That is not how you feed power to the garage mate.

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Posted this up ages ago but it still make me chuckle.

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OMG Paul, great photo.

Leaving the top/left hole open to IP is ridicules… there’s 4xFixing positions.! So USE them.
Over use of open grommets is a Waste of products.

The only thing missing is a ‘Hair Clip’ or 6” nail.

Luv these pics to show my apprentices.

 

[Had8Lives]

Just spotted this on Homes Under the hammer. The mind boggles!

 

[Dustydazzler]

Just spotted this on Homes Under the hammer. The mind boggles!

...bet my bottom dollar that the socket was there first

 

[mainline]

OMG Paul, great photo.

Leaving the top/left hole open to IP is ridicules… there’s 4xFixing positions.! So USE them.
Over use of open grommets is a Waste of products.

The only thing missing is a ‘Hair Clip’ or 6” nail.

Luv these pics to show my apprentices.

Maybe your apprentices will notice the actual wiring connections.

 

[Mikegh]

 

[James]

Wow, that is running a little too warm!

 

[Julie.]

Wow, that is running a little too warm!

Naw, it's just "old colours "


OK in fairness, it's probably a tad warm.

 

[mainline]

Probably meant to do that by someone who wants a smoke but has lost their lighter.

 

[MDJ]

who is Paul M?

 

[mainline]

who is Paul M?

Last seen May 27th 2018

 

[Darkwood]

He was a moderator back then, fair and decent guy, not sure where he went, sometimes life takes over hobbies.

 

[pc1966]

Like this, found last week...?

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Similar one at my parents, though it is fed in T&E from around 1970 but switch predated that by some decades.

 

[brianmoooore]

Like this, found last week...?

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A little depressing when you see stuff posted on here as antiques, that you've fitted as new.
Later versions of these switches has similar switch mechanisms inside to modern plate switches, but earlier versions had a totally different underslung over centre mechanism that gave a fast make and fast break, which was suitable for switching DC as well as AC.

 

[richy3333]

New extension and old house refurbished. Builder moved service head himself and made the access hatch sooo small everything is inaccessible. Electrical work was done by a sparky Cable outside on the roofing tin was found to be live and just taped up.

Builders had a melt because the works been callled out!

 

[bill01803]

That is going to take some sorting!!!

 

[Mike Johnson]

OK I will bite, what are those grey oblong terminal blocks above the RCBO's, not part of them as they don't line up, been out of the game for a while, I know the orange thing on the right, but those blocks are a new one on me. (surge protection maybe ?)