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20th Oct 2021, 8:56 pm
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Hexode
Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: Harwich, Essex, UK.
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Anybody know what this is?
i work in a school built in 1959 there a lots of old switches, wondered if anyone knew what this was for ?
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20th Oct 2021, 8:59 pm
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Re: anybody know what this is
There was a heating/air-conditioning company called Weatherfoil.
Just a bit of a guess. Cheers Mike T
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20th Oct 2021, 9:27 pm
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Hexode
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Re: Anybody know what this is?
Thanks seems the chairman of the company Leonard Satchwell who made the first thermostat.
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Re: Anybody know what this is?
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20th Oct 2021, 10:22 pm
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Hexode
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Box End, Beds. UK.
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Re: Anybody know what this is?
When I was at school the schools I went to had been built in the 1960s. Most classrooms had a Weatherfoil heater in the corner, which was a fairly large slow running fan blowing air over something like a car radiator. They were big things, built into the structure of the building so that Weatherfoil would only have provided the fans, the radiator, and the grills (which had the name on them)
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21st Oct 2021, 1:27 am
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Hexode
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Aberdare, South Wales, UK
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Re: Anybody know what this is?
It's a switch. You put a key in it to turn the unit on or off. Stops unauthorised fiddling.
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