Help with identifying BS number for cut out

[LlandrilloSpark]

Fellas I'd appreciate any thoughts on establishing the correct BS number for the cut out in the attached pics, the head is actually rated at 30 amps max but the cut out fuse is rewireable (3036?) and has been wired with 60amp wire.

There is no earth rod and its not TNCS/PME as its not available in that area, earth is taken from two grub screws on the cut out casing, the main earth before i rewired the house was 1.5 aluminium stranded!, ive replaced with two 6mm's until my new lugging tool arrives on friday when i will replace with 16mm, Ze was 0.21 rewired

Cheers

Mike

 

[GLENNSPARK]

I woud have thought BS3036 like you but its a bit of a punt mate......blast from the past though innit (blast being the operative word here:30A with 60A fuse wire) lol..............

 

[LlandrilloSpark]

oh yes very old Glenn, the immersion was still functioning off lead sheathed two core aluminium cable, inner cores wrapped with cloth!, and the plumber spurred of it last month before I rewired

 

[GLENNSPARK]

I think they call it "PILS" cable dont they Llandrillo? Paper Impregnated Lead Sheathed.............

 

[Knobhead]

See http://www.electriciansforums.net/e...ectrical-regulations/23233-history-cable.html
For gods sake get the DNO to change that cut out

 

[GLENNSPARK]

Thanks tony: got this on favourites now mate.

 

[LlandrilloSpark]

Pilc cable is for medium-high voltages, im not sure what the low voltage version is called, i will look on tonys link

Letter has already gone out to the DNO, the property was previously lived in by an old lady who may off drawn 10amp max, a family of five live there now complete with all mod cons so its time for an upgrade.

 

[GLENNSPARK]

It reminds me of the house in shrewsbury that i rewired for my mother on the 16th. Mrs adams had lived in it for about 70 years and the wireing in it was ancient. lead and vir all over the place, metal joint boxes etc and the cutout was falling apart. The dis board: well it wasn`t even that really as it comprised of different fuse enclosures that gave off a potent smell if you tried to pull too much through em. Old folk dont like fuss so they wont change stuff but this was taking the ****.............

 

[Knobhead]

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[Knobhead]

As a follow on to GLENNSPARK’s post. Years ago one of the fitters I worked with asked me to connect a shower he’d fitted. Yes OK with pop around this afternoon, took one look under the stairs and reversed out at high speed. The glass fronted cutout still had a meter reader’s card hung on it from 1925! It was from the days when the town was DC! Fused live and neutral. A quick call to the EMEB got the response required, they were there in under an hour. The meter had been changed several times but the cutout ? ? ? ?

 

[LlandrilloSpark]

Funny that Tony the house was still partially powered by two 15A splitters, now I had a quick look inside and they appear to be fused both line and Neutral!

 

[Knobhead]

For christs sake get rid of it, QUICK! Just imagine the problems with the neutral fuse blowing

:hanged:

My first house had a collection of 4 cast iron splitter units when I bought it. God what a nightmare! Added to which the guy that had owned the house was a DIY freak. The sockets were earthed with 6” radio spikes under the floor. Mind you the spikes never dried out, he’d diverted a surface drain so it flowed through an airbrick and in to the foundations! When I took the dining room floor up I was faced with a lake. The ends of the floor joists had rotted so bad that part of the floor collapsed when I stood on it. it took me near 10 years to fully sort the place out.