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:

 

[freddo]

My example isn't as well maintained!

 

[westward10]

Not sure the history of Slydlok fuses but they have been around a long time. This site has two of these panels, one no longer in use but they are identical including the fuses.

 

[freddo]

They were certainly well advertised in the the mid to late 30s:

 

[westward10]

Likely to be original on my panels maybe.

 

[Deleted member 72666]

My oh my, how looks can be deceiving! I would have had them down for the late 60's! They were definitely ahead of their time.

 

[telectrix]

Couple from a lift motor room I have been working in this week circa 1950s. One a lift control panel, not dodgy but still operating with little evidence of alterations. The second a fused line/neutral switch fuse which has a socket connected from it, cpc cut out to boot.View attachment 40442 View attachment 40443

sheer poetry.

 

[westward10]

The VRI is rock hard but it is in remarkable condition and operates a tiny goods lift.

 

[dksanders]

Or is it more ...

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The company that supplies this house it's utilities, is supplying and fitting, for free, high quality LED light bulbs throughout the whole house. The lamps are guaranteed for life and replaced for free if they fail.

They've fitted over 1 Million LEDs so far! which is pretty impressive, can you see e.g. SSE or BG doing that?

These fitters are their ordinary distributors who have volunteered to be paid LED fitters and have been trained on how to test (basic) that a light fitting is safe before handling, how to remove and install lamps in various types of fittings, and yes, the correct lamp handling procedures.

 

[Pete999]

The company that supplies this house it's utilities, is supplying and fitting, for free, high quality LED light bulbs throughout the whole house. The lamps are guaranteed for life and replaced for free if they fail.

They've fitted over 1 Million LEDs so far! which is pretty impressive, can you see e.g. SSE or BG doing that?

These fitters are their ordinary distributors who have volunteered to be paid LED fitters and have been trained on how to test (basic) that a light fitting is safe before handling, how to remove and install lamps in various types of fittings, and yes, the correct lamp handling procedures.

Is there is a C&Gs for that skill, need to watch the Sams will be on to that like flies on a Cow pat

 

[DPG]

He means scams.

 

[ipf]

He means scams.

.....scams round a cow pat?

...or flies round scams?

 

[westward10]

Not everyday you see something unusual but I have never seen one of these. From the outside it looks like any other MEM Exel switch-fuse but inside we have a small dist board.

 

[Lucien Nunes]

That goods lift controller could be anything up to late 50s, those doughnut contactors are pretty timeless. And yes, the Slydloks are original, they were standard on Evans controllers. Slydloks were specced on a lot of WW2 W^D kit, which I guess helped cement their presence throughout the industry.

So on the left you have the line contactors for the stator, up and down, which are electrically and mechanically interlocked (the interlock bar runs behind the panel). On the right are two rotor resistance contactors, with timing dashpots. The stator is switched DOL, with both steps of rotor resistance in circuit, and one rotor contactor is energised but the dashpot delays it closing. When it closes, one step is cut out and the next contactor is energised. When that closes the second step is cut out i.e. the sliprings are shorted together for full speed. The line contactor auxiliaries also control the brake and lock circuit.

It looks like there are both fast and slow limits for each floor in the selector, as there are terminals UP /DN / UPS / DNS. As the car approaches the floor I expect the first drops out both rotor contactors, then the levelling limit drops the line con.

Freddo's controller is older and uses doughnut contactors for the floor relays. Any clues to the make - I can't read the label and I don't recognise it. The line contactors have dashpots, presumably with a lost motion linkage so that the line and brake contacts operate immediately but the accelerating contact follows later. FWIW the fuses here look like Artic, another specialist brand found mainly in industry and ministry-spec plant.

 

[freddo]

Any clues to the make - I can't read the label and I don't recognise it.

H O Strong & sons Bristol.

This one is not in use any more, I imagine it was taken out of service many years ago. It is in a brick shed on the roof of a local factory.

Naturally the supply is via an Ellison oil filled circuit breaker.

 

[westward10]

I have also "borowed" this label, never seen one like this.

 

[static zap]

Oh well glance read that as Mingham...MEM glands .
(looks very posh)

 

[Doomed]

have I every shown these?
the one of t
he D
B is taken with me stood in the shower cubicle.

 

[Doomed]

And hows this for a light fitting in a living room

Yep, thats the ballast unit on the floor

 

[Strima]

 

[westward10]

So tonight I come across this, shall I turn it off to ditch those live conductors hanging from the busbar chamber or is the main switch siezed with all the compound which has poured from the PILC cable connection.

 

[Wilko]

That has been hit with the ugly stick !
Isolate further upstream?

 

[westward10]

That has been hit with the ugly stick !
Isolate further upstream?

It can be but believe it or not that busbar which was assumed to be redundant supplies a server room. Back tonight to see what has come from the many meetings which have no doubt taken place today to discuss it

 

[Pete999]

It can be but believe it or not that busbar which was assumed to be redundant supplies a server room. Back tonight to see what has come from the many meetings which have no doubt taken place today to discuss it

What's to discuss??

 

[westward10]

What's to discuss??

I agree Pete. We have been on this site four weeks doing an EICR and found this hidden away in a store room. It was a bit late as we are working nights so no doubt today people are deciding how best to remove it without isolation due to the server room which we have been scouting around. I have my phone off but I suspect when I get back this evening it will have been removed as they have a site electrician.

 

[Pete999]

I agree Pete. We have been on this site four weeks doing an EICR and found this hidden away in a store room. It was a bit late as we are working nights so no doubt today people are deciding how best to remove it without isolation due to the server room which we have been scouting around. I have my phone off but I suspect when I get back this evening it will have been removed as they have a site electrician.

Thanks Westy

 

[Squid]

 

[Richard Burns]

[/ATTACH]

That telephone connection will get a bit warm nestled between those two power supplies! Can't see any other issues!

 

[freddo]

Lead sheathed t+e? Nice to see an old installation that hasn't been altered too much

 

[freddo]

This is part of an article in the PE mag. It has been printed in more than one. I don't know why you would do that. Perhaps the lights were fed from a centre tapped supply...

 

[willy fixit]

That telephone connection will get a bit warm nestled between those two power supplies! Can't see any other issues!

Earth/bonding clamp on the incoming lead sheath???

 

[Rpa07]

This is part of an article in the PE mag. It has been printed in more than one. I don't know why you would do that. Perhaps the lights were fed from a centre tapped supply...
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It doesn’t make a lot of sense that, you’d have thought that some editor worth their salt would have picked up on it. If the downlight can’t work then . . . . ?

 

[freddo]

We fitted 9 of that range of downlights recently,2 were dead out the box, not even a brief flash or pop at first switch on. One of the 2 replacements was dead too. 2 had faulty LEDs the other had faulty electronics.

 

[Toneyz]

We fitted 9 of that range of downlights recently,2 were dead out the box, not even a brief flash or pop at first switch on. One of the 2 replacements was dead too. 2 had faulty LEDs the other had faulty electronics.

What make and modal is that?

 

[freddo]

JCC Hybrid 9

 

[Toneyz]

JCC Hybrid 9

I thought that they had sorted this failure out shame really as it is not doing their reputation any good at all more than likely it is the driver when we have had high branded LED fittings before it has always been the driver.

 

[Strima]

A couple of lads I know have been left to sort this lot out, they've only got a six hour window and it all has to be done with no service outage. Started off as a quick DC PDU swap and sort of got a little bit bigger...

That's roughly 500 fibre optic cables badly installed...

Under the floor:

Top of rack:

Bottom of rack:

 

[Rpa07]

I’d go for an Afro comb and occasionally back comb it - plenty of conditioner with a warm water wash.
My second suggestion - put the floor tiles back down and leg it!

 

[telectrix]

or just get a bag of cable ties.

 

[Rpa07]

or just get a bag of cable ties.

.. . . and an Afro comb!

 

[Strima]

I’d go for an Afro comb and occasionally back comb it - plenty of conditioner with a warm water wash.
My second suggestion - put the floor tiles back down and leg it!

Funnily enough the floor tiles are back in place!!!