Vintage Electrics

[DetlefSchmitz]

All the ones I remember had been cut on one side of the opening to get the cable in after forgetting to fit the cover first.

 

[333rocky333]

Should not really still have UNSLEEVED pin plugs in your house, especially if children are about.

 

[cwhaley]

Totally agree, luckily only ever been used with only me present.

As I say the plug is a museum peice and has been taken out of action and marked “do not use”. The point of this thread is for vintage electrics.

 

[dhutch]

Wiring on that is lovely!

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

More interestingly was a circular metal switch mounted on a polished wooded base/plinth type thing.

I call(ed) them pattresses. I fitted some wall lights in my living room a couple of decades ago, they had just a bare gold coloured metal base to fix to the wall, which I thought would look simply wrong - so I turned up some fancy wooden pattresses from some scrap wood. I used a drill, clamped in a vice, with a long bolt through the middle of the wood block, plus sharp chisels to turn the block to shape and varnished them. I still have those wall lights and pattresses up, though now converted to LED.

I also have a 13amp plug identical to cwhaley's rubber plug. Its on a very old extension lead I used to use in my garden.

 

[FrodoOne]

Because of this thread, readers may be interested in "The Museum of Plugs and Sockets", of which the first British page is https://www.plugsocketmuseum.nl/British1.html

 

[conny]

I've got some vintage clamp meters in my shed and an old Avo 8 (I think).
Will dig them out and take some photo's after my honeymoon next week.

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

I've got some vintage clamp meters in my shed and an old Avo 8 (I think).
Will dig them out and take some photo's after my honeymoon next week.

I have an oldish 1200amp clamp meter I bought in the late 1970 for big pump motors, several Avo 8's and a AEI(?) Selectest. I just keep them for old times sake, as they were what I was brought up on. I really couldn't wait to move to the digital meters quick enough, when they appeared, buying one of the Sinclair LED meters.

 

[conny]

Managed to find 5 minutes to take these. The last one is a 'fairly' modern one though it was last calibrated in 1992. LOL
The close ups are to show the ranges.

 

[cwhaley]

Great posts thanks all