Re using old switches

[GLENNSPARK]

I guess the best he could do would be to take one apart to measure the separation distance and take a photo and also throw a load of 1kV through them on an IR based test, together with working out how to attach a cpc to the body.

theres various places within them that would provide a good point to mount

the porcelane section would not be the issue....the brass pressing that holds the movement however...

 

[ayjay]

i have a switch made of ceramic, its round with a rotating knob
it was installed in rhinfeild house in1897 the origional electrics were installed by mining electricians
the house was powered by a 100 volt dc generator driven by a coal driven engine
sew a button on that

 

[GLENNSPARK]

i have a switch made of ceramic, its round with a rotating knob
it was installed in rhinfeild house in1897 the origional electrics were installed by mining electricians
the house was powered by a 100 volt dc generator driven by a coal driven engine
sew a button on that

fred dibnah did not live in bournemouth!!....

 

[Robert Turnbull]

Rob..
save those switches wont you...together with the round or square wooden patresses they will be mounted on wont you....
their quite collectable now....especially the 2 way ones and the intermediates...oh yes, they were configured like that as well...

I checked out olivers, they aren't those type on a wooded patress they are flat brass plates on with toggle switches.

I did a house a few years ago and collected loads of the bakelite ones and the brass ones on the wooded pattress. I had all the old wooded fuse boards with seperate neutral fuses. took everything off really carefully.

couple of weeks late i got a message that anything removed was to the handed over lol

was a huge place 2 of us there for nearly a year rewire/data/sky etc...

was full of crazy antiques, there was a hunting scene painting 2m x 4m roughly valued at 4million

 

[GLENNSPARK]

I checked out olivers, they aren't those type on a wooded patress they are flat brass plates on with toggle switches.

I did a house a few years ago and collected loads of the bakelite ones and the brass ones on the wooded pattress. I had all the old wooded fuse boards with seperate neutral fuses. took everything off really carefully.

couple of weeks late i got a message that anything removed was to the handed over lol

was a huge place 2 of us there for nearly a year rewire/data/sky etc...

was full of crazy antiques, there was a hunting scene painting 2m x 4m roughly valued at 4million

yes well the ones with the flat plates tend to date from the 30s-50s...what you will find behind that front rob is a porcelane module...their like an old type of grid switch (in fact they were often grouped as a grid on a single brass plate)....the switch contacts will be of the open type similar to the toggle switches..again, these are collectable
there still will be the associated issues with lack of a CPC and potential for arcing

 

[Fin170]

I've got a similar issue at the moment with a lady who has a load of the Bakelite switches with the screw on front, she wants to keep them but obviously does not comply to etc etc

Although she has had them for 50 years and at no point decided to unscrew the fronts and lick the terminals + they're about to be covered by RCD as well.....Still better off with them than a 99p B&Q one, I'd be happy with them in my house

Deviation note and threadlock? :lol:

 

[Robert Turnbull]

i'm back onto this subject as i have got the job we just sorting out the switching. Any one know of a replacement module i could use with the old plates.

 

[GLENNSPARK]

well...theses these...

Bromleighs Antique and Period Lighting, Sockets and Switches

Classic Brass Light Switches

it may be that you can use the gubbins out of these robert....or alternatively just use the new unit...to replace the old....
there looks like some decent stuff in the classicswitches site actually....