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Lamp Holder Adapter.

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Mornin' All,


An appliance has this description in its sale's literature.......


"Each model is sent out wired complete with connector, two yards of flexible cord, and cocus wood lamp holder adapter, ready for immediate use."


What is a cocus wood lamp holder adapter?


Z.
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    A lampholder is thing that holds the lamp. This one is made out of cocus wood.

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    Cocus a hard wood, a bit like ebony, I think it sinks in water, if not then very nearly, and it is easily machined and hard to splinter, by hard wood standards at least

    Used for musical instruments that need straight wooden tubes, like flutes and bagpipes. before synthetic materials took over.

    Mike.
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    Is this an old description of a vintage appliance appliance ? rather than modern ?


    Cocus wood is a type of hardwood used for some electrical fittings before bakelite. Probable some low powered appliance with a wooden B22 plug so as to be used from a lamp socket.
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    broadgage:

    Is this an old description of a vintage appliance appliance ? rather than modern ?


    Cocus wood is a type of hardwood used for some electrical fittings before bakelite. Probable some low powered appliance with a wooden B22 plug so as to be used from a lamp socket.


    Yes Broadgage, the description is from an old electrical catalogue of Ideal Labour Saving Domestic Electrical Appliances. The appliances include clothes' irons, water heaters that look like sauce pans, a toaster and kettles.


    All appliances, which are mostly metal bodied seem to have just two core flexes. Perhaps that is why the insulated handles are very large and robust, to offer thermal and electric shock protection.


    The plugs illustrated are small in the pictures, but appear to be a B.C. plug type that would fit into a lamp holder.


    Would anyone like to guess at the power rating in Watts of the 240 Volt kettles?


    Z.


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    Il take a wild stab in the dark and say 600 Watts at 240 volts AC or DC
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    If they are the early dry element type, where an element takes the form of a very flat wire wound resistor (a copper bar with mica sheets, then a wrap of nichrome rather like the old glow wore fire elements, then more mica),  sandwiched with a couple or wing nuts into intimate contact with the underside  of an otherwise ordinary kettle, then it may be for 200V DC ?

    Some designs were with 2 elements in series, for 200V  so it can re configured for 100V or so by removing the cover and moving a link, so putting them in parallel.


    Assume 6- 8 amps on 240V, or  more like 4 to 5 off 200V and twice that in the 100V setting.

    Just because there is a bayonet lighting adapter does not mean that you cold not plug in a 10A load on a 5A hot wire fuse, if you are only a few minutes about it.

    EDIT beware - there might be asbestos instead of mica on the wire element.

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    Mike
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    The wayback machine has  kept a rather shaky copy of this
    old kettle lovers website   now defunct. You may find it of interest for the historical data.


    Mike
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    I bet they all lasted about 25x as long as modern ones
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    Back in the day, electric kettle came in numerous different wattages, but 750 watts was popular, so just over three amps at 240 volts. Fine in practice on a lighting circuit. 

    Slow boiling by todays standards, but use of an early electric kettle compared favourably to walking to a distant kitchen in a large house, and waiting for a kettle to boil on the coal burning range, or alternatively use of a Primus stove or a spirit stove.
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    Kelly Marie Angel:

    Il take a wild stab in the dark and say 600 Watts at 240 volts AC or DC


    Kelly Marie is spot on. 600 Watts is the answer. The kettle has a 2 pint capacity. It was called a model L55265. It was real highly polished copper in construction. A warning says:


    "Be sure the kettle is filled before switching on the current, and on no circumstances completely empty while the element is still hot." The makers advise always leaving some water in the kettle to avoid the bottom burning out like a empty pan on a hot stove can.


    The customer had to specify the Voltage rating of the kettle when ordering. The options were: 100/110 Volts. 200/220 Volts. 230/250 Volts. I bet that confused some customers. Or did the local electrical shop owner advise accordingly?


    Fascinating.


    Z.


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