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18th Oct 2021, 1:59 pm | #1 |
Heptode
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Test panel
Picked this up on my travels. Can someone confirm what I’m thinking. It would be one of two things or both. Used behind a counter to test bulbs or appliances or used in a tv / radio workshop for plugging in customer repairs. As it has different size round pin sockets.
I think at one time it’s been modified with extra wood and the bottom and it has a hard board back . Not sure if the Bulgin plug socket has been added. Even Rosie cant work it out. I will restore it as some sockets are damaged. Not that I’m going to use it has neutral fuseing as well Andy
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18th Oct 2021, 2:18 pm | #2 |
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Re: Test panel
"And for customers with a plug that doesn't fit we have live mains screw terminals" this leads me to think it isn't quite up to modern standards. Worth restoring even if it is a demonstration of how not to do it (these days).
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18th Oct 2021, 2:20 pm | #3 |
Octode
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Re: Test panel
Looks as if the Bulgin connector was the input.
My Dad made something similar, though not so well finished, when he repaired customer sets back in the fifties. |
18th Oct 2021, 9:03 pm | #4 |
Nonode
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Re: Test panel
Doesn't look like the bulb testers we had at Woolies. Not enough bulb bases represented.
And more switches than connections? I could see it being to plug in customers devices, as some devices did connect via BC bulb bases. Could the plethora of switches be to reveres polarity / phase? Fuses in both legs also kind of push me towards it being DC era? EDIT: that said, that's modernish plastic chocblock isn't it? And TBF the ply looks not that old. Some of the rebating has been done with a modern machine, I would say. Last edited by duncanlowe; 18th Oct 2021 at 9:09 pm. |
20th Oct 2021, 8:50 am | #5 |
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Re: Test panel
I imagine anyone using a workbench would have made something like this.
Interesting that BS1363 isn't included. Makes me think that it's fairly recent, and for 'old' stuff. An enthusiast's board. |
20th Oct 2021, 8:44 pm | #6 |
Heptode
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Re: Test panel
Thanks for your thoughts everyone Andy
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