My mum used one of those when I was a kid - plugged into a 2-way BC adapter in a light fitting.
It was only when we acquired an electric fire in the mid 50's that we had a (single!) power point fitted.
You will never be an electrician.
You see that socket you have fitted - it's level and it is in line with the existing socket;-)
I am pleased you took the hint from myself and Dave Liquorice about a simple continuity test to find the spur.
A nice job IMHO.
That can happen by accident!
Right.
Well, at least it would end up in a circuit with a 5 to 6 A fuse/breaker.
Hopefully...
Presumably there was also a length of green wire attached, with a crocodile clip to apply to the water pipe?
:-)
En el artículo , Adam Funk escribió:
From a fusebox with an on/off lever and two ceramic fuses...
Wish I'd bought that iron now. The car boot's on today, might go see if it's still there. Seller was a regular IIRC.
En el artículo , Frank Erskine escribió:
:-)
Eek! I've never seen one of those until now.
Are you going to open a Museum of Electrical Dodginess?
Isn't it better if the rod goes all the way to a piece of bedrock?
yes
En el artículo , Adam Funk escribió:
No, but it was such a uniquely British thing, somehow. Images of that period frequently feature a woman doing the ironing with the iron plugged into the light socket via a double adapter.
This pic's at the Science Museum website:
actually looks identical to the one I saw at the car boot, except that one was pink.
That's how my mum's iron was powered when I was young!
Prior to that (before I was born, I think) she used a flat iron which had to be heated up on a coal-fired range.
My Great Aunt, who lived in a house that had no electricity until the 1970s had a number of flat irons that were heated on the range. She also had a gas iron that was attached to the town gas supply via a long metal armoured hose. It was one of the scariest looking appliances I can recall.
On Sunday 14 April 2013 06:21 Mike Tomlinson wrote in uk.d-i-y:
That pad's probably asbestos too :->>
On Sunday 14 April 2013 10:38 Steve Firth wrote in uk.d-i-y:
I remember a gas poker with a similar hose. Always thought it was a rather nice device.
In message , Tim Watts writes
Ideal for the two hole syrup tin experiment:-)
Now that you mention it, I think I have an old book about DIY & other household "stuff" with a line drawing of such a set-up.
Well, at least the pad's not a fire hazard.
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