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Historical British Educational Film. Mummy and Daughter Change a Fuse Wire.

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A delightful old film. How times have changed.




Z.
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    Hi zoomup, this wiring and the regs section of the forum discussions would become awfully clogged if everyone decided to post new topics with only links to something they found interesting on the internet, please consider creating a blog or post to a more general section of the discussions, thanks :)
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    Zoomup:

    A delightful old film. How times have changed.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFcndAQLWo0


    Z.




    Changed? What's changed?

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    Part of an electrical installation I worked on earlier this year. 


    Snap!


    Andy Betteridge 

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    weirdbeard:

    Hi zoomup, this wiring and the regs section of the forum discussions would become awfully clogged if everyone decided to post new topics with only links to something they found interesting on the internet, please consider creating a blog or post to a more general section of the discussions, thanks :)




    The old educational film is instructional and educational weird, it helps younger electricians to understand past installations and practices. It concerns wiring, repairs and fusing. We often have enquiries from younger electricians and students about older types of wiring, this film addresses such matters. Only a day or so ago we had an enquiry about when metric ring final cables were first introduced, so there is an interest in such matters. B.S. 3036 rewirable fuses are still allowed to be used in B.S. 7671, even though we don't do so today as more modern protective devices are available, but abroad perhaps they still are installed/used. Live and let live. Live and learn. 


    Z.

     

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    Please see 533.1.2.3 of B.S. 7671 about rewirable fuses to B.S. 3036.


    Z.
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    Yes Zoom,

    some of were brung up on the items showing in that very film B.S. 3036  and all. The Y split lamp holder adaptor was common place for ironing, toasting and those large reel to reel tape recorders amongst other things. Round bakerlite switches and porcelean pepperpot fuse covers. You were modern if you had a wooden box with drop latch containing fuses including in the N.
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    I laughed out loud (proper lol'd) when I saw the old meter... That's almost the same as the one I have in my house... ?


    As for which category this post belongs to in the Discussion Forum, I'm happy for it to stay here in the Wiring and Regulations category because it is related to domestic electrical installations albeit a historical view.


    Going a bit #offtopic but I have received a few questions recently about the moderation of the forum so watch out for a post in the Online Community News blog which will help to explain the whens and whys of our moderation decisions.
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    Ooh some of us are going to get a telling off by the headmistress!

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    Nice to see a double pole switch between the meter and the fuseboard (albeit an metal bodied one) to de-mark the end of the local electricity board property and the start of the consuming installation.


    . If only such  a thing was a requirement for installations today!


    For the 1940s the animated graphics are a bit dated showing a fused neutral, but then not describing it, such things had fallen out of favour in the late '20s .I imagine they were lifted from another film made earlier, and simply given a new voice over.

    I can remember my grandparents using the lamp adaptor to 2 pin plug prior to a rewire in the mid 1970s - trying to read as the lamp swayed in time with my grandma doing the ironing, giving a moving shadow on the book.

    No-one worried that much about the absence of an earth at that time, I presume it was cut back or covered in "Empire brand" black cloth insulation tape.
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    ebee:

    Ooh some of us are going to get a telling off by the headmistress!



    No names, no pack drill... ?
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    I am surprised to see that the consumption figure was 883 units for a quarter with perhaps only one light fitting and one socket outlet per room. By comparison with todays average uk consumption of between 8.5 and 10 units per day which would equate to 765 and 900 respectively for the same quarter. Have domestic appliances become so efficient that we consume roughly the same amount of electricity in the home today as we did in the 1940's ?

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