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

[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!