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Looks like the JB is being sick.
Is that pic from USA?
Is that pic from USA?
had this a few month ago...
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A lot of those wires look like redundant cores from excessive multi cables. A call system I've worked on used just two cores to each and every call point, all in parallel, and four cores to the sounder/indicator points.station
Screwit’s, never criticise them on an American site or you’ll be short of a couple of dangly bits.
They hate Wago connectors with a vengeance!
not this one. had 2 return lines from the call point, 1 for the light, 1 for the sound. 1 of the call points was faulty and sending a sound signal back but no light... took a while disconnecting each wire until the culprit was found
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So do the Yanks refer to them as Screwits or dogs c@cks?
I took great pleasure removing some a while back and fitting 5 way WAGOs!
I've a bunch of Tenby "screwits" somewhere...
I took great pleasure removing some a while back and fitting 5 way WAGOs!
I've a bunch of Tenby "screwits" somewhere...
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Wire nuts.
On the subject of Screwitts , over the years I've come across loads of them on domestic rewires , under floors , on rubber insulated cables usually on lighting .
In all honesty , every one was actually a sound connection , possibly fitted in the 1930's / 40's & 50's .
The usual example would be three 1/.044 single rubber cables , twisted in the same direction as the Screwitt thread , then the porcelain Screwitt fitted , never any insul. tape and left under the floorboards until rewire time .
In all honesty , every one was actually a sound connection , possibly fitted in the 1930's / 40's & 50's .
The usual example would be three 1/.044 single rubber cables , twisted in the same direction as the Screwitt thread , then the porcelain Screwitt fitted , never any insul. tape and left under the floorboards until rewire time .
As an apprentice the tradesman I was with gave me screwit’s for a fire suppression job. I took one look at them and refused to use them. I went to the workshop and got Garelco connectors (can anyone remember them?).
Following that and another incidence “Der Management” kept us apart. I wasn’t exactly happy as he’d wired a new board with the live on the neutral bar.
Following that and another incidence “Der Management” kept us apart. I wasn’t exactly happy as he’d wired a new board with the live on the neutral bar.
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Yank wirenuts...available in this country by Ideal...twist the wires themselves. Also,available in Weatherproof . I have some for a Yank irrigation system on Golf Courses
screwits.....you have to twist the wire first.
funfact
SCREWIT was the name of the company. They produced two sizes of connector
MIDGETS.....because they were small
NORMALS...because theynwere
probably have to rebrand them nowadays
screwits.....you have to twist the wire first.
funfact
SCREWIT was the name of the company. They produced two sizes of connector
MIDGETS.....because they were small
NORMALS...because theynwere
probably have to rebrand them nowadays
