Remember These?

[Richard-the-Ninth]

Didn't I read on here? about these

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Found them in Late MIL's garage today, look like they have just come out the box.

 

[ProDave]

Yes remember them well.

Remember seeing a smoothing iron plugged into one !!!!!

The essential "extra" being rewireable plug in BC lamp base "plugs"

I remember one that had a built in switch for the lamp, so you could leave the light switch turned on to feed the appliance plugged in, and be able to turn the light off if you wanted to.  Is that a pull switch on the first picture for that very purpose?

Earthing, or polarity for that matter didn't seem to trouble people back then.

But I'm old enough to remember tv's and radio's rated for 250V ac/dc, meaning they didn't have a transformer, but everything worked directly from the (rectified) mains input.

The other gems I have in my collection are a rewireable 13A plug that has a 13A socket built into it's top, so you could stack as many as you wanted to into a single 13A socket, and a 3 way adapter that converted a 15A round pin plug to three 13A square pin sockets.

 

[Richard-the-Ninth]

Is that a pull switch on the first picture for that very purpose?

Not tried the switch, but it does "click" when the string is pulled

 

[apprentice87]

Yes, everyone had one of those, they were usually used for an iron or a radio..

john...

 

[Blue Duck]

Yes, everyone had one of those, they were usually used for an iron or a radio..

john...

Thats all people did with electrickery in them days  msl1:

Still find some council properties (where the owner would't let them rewire) with 1 socket in each room! :lol:

 

[kme]

I recall the old 2 (round) pin plugs / sockets, unfused - the sockets ( trailing variety) were small:

Those adaptors sometimes came with plugs attached - we had one of the old ( P29 ?) round pin plugs, with a string attaching it to a socket adaptor for a BC lampholder - ...................

Couldn`t find a pic, but we had 4 way adaptors for these plugs - but you had to use the flat type, not the round ones ( I remember wiring those round plugs as a kid..... you pushed the pin up, it was like a split pin inside - you fed the wire through the middle of the pin, and pushed it back down, where the two sides compressed onto the conductor - then screw the top on, without cross-threading it :slap

 

[steptoe]

 

[Evans Electric]

Whats that Stepps ?   Your lighting loop test adaptor ?   

I remember those things in Richard 1X ,s  post .   As said ,  the light bulb in one and the iron in the other .   

 

[steptoe]

my emergency worklight power supply/battery charger point/etc etc etc

 

[Blue Duck]

Could have at least used metal clad socket!

 

[OnOff]

My avatar picture isn't I guess that uncommon but when I ripped it off a wall nearly 30 years ago I lifted the floor boards below and found the "egg box" it came in along with all the other electrical fittings packaging I guess from when they changed from gas mantles to electric lighting. For some reason I put it back in the box and kept just this one. If it wasn't for the packaging I'd have binned it: 

 

[NozSpark]

You know what?????

I didn't even realise what your avatar was... I've never looked at it that closely :|

 

[OnOff]

You know what?????

I didn't even realise what your avatar was... I've never looked at it that closely :|

Add a couple of eyes from the kid's Fuzzy felt set............. :lol:

 

[Andy™]

You know what?????

I didn't even realise what your avatar was... I've never looked at it that closely :|

+1. never noticed either