Service head query

[tlangdon12]

Attached is a picture of the service head at our house. Is this a type that the DNO should replace for free upon notification?

It looks very old, and may have a fused neutral line, I can't quite see through the sight glass to see whether this is the case. The conductors going to the meter look like they have some sort of fabric covering and look very thin compared to the modern meter tails.

The CU is a Wylex rewireable fuse unit that I'd like to get upgraded; one advantage of this head is that it appears to have a built-in isolator (lever on the top rhs), but I think it needs to go.

Thanks in advance.

Tony (Householder)

 

[Knobhead]

Lucien,
Just spotted the link in one of you posts to DC meters. The Aron meter, I didn’t realise the Ayrton and Perry had evolved.

I used to have an apprentices text book from 1896, it showed the Ayrton and Perry dual pendulum gaining clock joule meter. My ex threw it out!

And before you lot start, it wasn’t my text book.

 

[shagbite]

Lucien,
Just spotted the link in one of you posts to DC meters. The Aron meter, I didn’t realise the Ayrton and Perry had evolved.

I used to have an apprentices text book from 1896, it showed the Ayrton and Perry dual pendulum gaining clock joule meter. My ex threw it out!

And before you lot start, it wasn’t my text book.

no, like you said, it was your apprentices.

 

[Knobhead]

Thank you!

 

[Lucien Nunes]

what manufacturer are they

Looks like they might be Sanders, at least one of them has the (S) logo but the other could be a copy made under license?
Might be something of a local speciality type made to a SABS standard, don't remember seeing exactly that pattern in the UK. Will get my catalogue out...
Could be half a century newer than the cutouts in the first pic!

 

[Marvo]

TBH I have no idea whatsoever on their age but I also think they're a lot newer than the head in the OP.









One of them is manufactured by a company called 'COOLEX' the other by 'SANDERS HUDACO'.

 

[cotty]

TBH I have no idea whatsoever on their age but I also think they're a lot newer than the head in the OP.

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One of them is manufactured by a company called 'COOLEX' the other by 'SANDERS HUDACO'.

Let's be honest. You Have no idea! Whoops Banned!

 

[trev]

Let's be honest. You Have no idea! Whoops Banned!

I'd just like to take the opportunity to thank the mods for banning this numbnuts.

 

[tlangdon12]

Attached are a couple of photos of the wooden trunking from the cellar along with some lengths of the red and black vir cable. The wire on top of the trunking is the earth.

Tony

 

[Lucien Nunes]

Technically we should call that 'casing' rather than trunking. There had been some spectacular casing work at the Midland Grand Hotel / St. Pancras Chambers but very little left by the time we were there. I salvaged a bit of it but not enough to make up much of a demo. I wonder how many installations still have live circuits in wooden casing?

 

[telectrix]

tony's probably. :smilielol5::smilielol5::smilielol5:

 

[westward10]

Randomly found an old thread with @Lucien Nunes first ever post what are the chances of that.

 

[ChipFanDave]

Randomly found an old thread with @Lucien Nunes first ever post what are the chances of that.

Evens if not odds on, I mean I've also found it !

 

[Lucien Nunes]

Tony the OP saved me the service head and I picked it up some time later when in his area. Will be on display soon.

IIRC my next few posts took a certain amount of effort to convince the established firm as it was then - decent blokes for sure but not ones who would suffer fools gladly - that I wasn't a dangerous loose cannon firing nonsense into their midst. Fair enough, seeing as we didn't have the rating system then.

 

[littlespark]

We’ve all found this thread now.
You just have to look at the picture of the service head and think “hmmm, @Lucien Nunes would like that” before reading any further.

pictures on the thread..... remember them??

 

[telectrix]

We’ve all found this thread now.
You just have to look at the picture of the service head and think “hmmm, @Lucien Nunes would like that” before reading any further.

pictures on the thread..... remember them??

it's that long ago, weren't they in black and white?

 

[Mike Johnson]

it's that long ago, weren't they in black and white?

Sepia?

 

[freddo]

Tony the OP saved me the service head and I picked it up some time later when in his area. Will be on display soon.

That's good news, that head is a thing of absolute beauty! Why don't we have glass fronted cast iron switchgear now?

 

[telectrix]

That's good news, that head is a thing of absolute beauty! Why don't we have glass fronted cast iron switchgear now?

too expensive to manufacture.

 

[freddo]

too expensive to manufacture.

But look how long it lasts!