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If you remember these you are just too old?


Whilst viewing there is a prize for the first viewer who spots and identifies the mistake.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUyjPosp6g8


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    Colin Jenkins:

    Hello Zoomup.


    The wooden brown Wylex has been fitted onto a timber surface without it's paxolin backplate - a possible fire risk. I 've installed hundreds of these in my lifetime and they were always excellent.  I only ever encountered a problem with one installed by A N Other.  It was fitted without its paxolin backplate and the cables were routed back-entry directly into the wall cavity.  After many years of good service dust from the cavity accumulated in the main switch and it started to cook.  The owner smelt it and called me before things got nasty - there was no damage to the tails and a new Wylex with a backplate fixed things.  The white Wylex is the "all insulated" type, and did not need a separate backplate. Good times!


    Regards,


                  Colin Jenkins.




    Hello Colin,

                            that peaky dust does cause problems, problems with your customer's  Wylex consumer unit, problems in tumble driers and washing machines causing fires, trouble in extractor fans causing fires. Also a build up in electric motors can cause overheating by restricting ventilation. We need to avoid such build up if possible.


    Z.

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    Colin Jenkins:

    Hello Zoomup.


    The wooden brown Wylex has been fitted onto a timber surface without it's paxolin backplate - a possible fire risk. I 've installed hundreds of these in my lifetime and they were always excellent.  I only ever encountered a problem with one installed by A N Other.  It was fitted without its paxolin backplate and the cables were routed back-entry directly into the wall cavity.  After many years of good service dust from the cavity accumulated in the main switch and it started to cook.  The owner smelt it and called me before things got nasty - there was no damage to the tails and a new Wylex with a backplate fixed things.  The white Wylex is the "all insulated" type, and did not need a separate backplate. Good times!


    Regards,


                  Colin Jenkins.




    Hello Colin,

                            that peaky dust does cause problems, problems with your customer's  Wylex consumer unit, problems in tumble driers and washing machines causing fires, trouble in extractor fans causing fires. Also a build up in electric motors can cause overheating by restricting ventilation. We need to avoid such build up if possible.


    Z.

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