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Its more for children with small fingers pulling out the plugs.. I remember a call out early 80s where a bloke nearly died, he plugged in a kettle and the plug blew up, he said his son gave him the kettle. On inspection there was what looked like 5 amp fuse wire wrapped between the L and N...

Is the above switch and the fuse for the same appliance, as too me the above seems like its for two appliances fridge And freezer as mentioned in your first post. Maybe im reading it wrong but (live from flex outlet into L1 fuse linked to L supply switch ) ? Wired as you say above a...

Is it to stop insects getting in

If its got unsleeved pins then its not advisable to use it

They were made foe use in floorboxes back in the day

Any adverse effects like arcing etc will be dampened by the compound

Carefully use a screwdriver on one of the 3 ridges and tap it round to start it, the heat warps the metal and makes them bind in, sometimes best to remove the fitting from the ceiling to. do it If you don't want to scratch it use a bit of wood rather than a screwdrive

Yes think so, similar to a burglar alarm pir they work on 12 volts , not always a relay i think sometimes is done with electronics components

I believe modern version all works off the 9v battery, it just somehow operates a pair of contacts rated at mains voltage

Possibly Artic flex, the yellow and blue stuff used for festoon and stuff outdoors

Surprised theres no ASBESTOS insets in them

Not all the plugs are the same regardless of the tube T4 or T5, there all 230v leads though,, a new fitting will come with the relevant mains lead, simply cut it to length and it will connect into that white box, its unlikely you will find a lead to link from an older fitting to a new fitting...

Honeywell

It's likely the red and yellow pair do the switching whilst the blue is a neutral , if so you need to be carefull where you connect the blue

No idea , will have a look next time i see him, not seen any gizmos its still wired in to an old screw terminal junction box, reason bit of both i think bit of nostalgia and of the mindset of if its not broke keep it, his wife has a mobile though. He still has old test meters with PO...

mk k2200 may do the job There is a bloke on ebay that sells custom made adaptors for about 18 quid

We recently had extra boxes stuck on all the poles down my road ,i have one right outside my house , the bloke opposite still has an old dial phone running from a a copper cable, as an elderly ex post office engineer he refuses to change, i am connected to this same pole but with a fibre cable.

The Metrel i sold you last year

Do you recall the single 50va units that also weighed a ton and had little 3.15 A fuses built in the end that often blew, i see you had open front dichrolcs thats pretty old school. 12v seemed to really change shopfittiing till then round here was all Concord track and crown silver es lamps...

She is possibly safer without it, went to a few premises where similar had caused fires, I believe the invidual outputs were not protected just all commoned up to the one transformer output and back in the days 50w lamps were common,. and when the 12 volt lampholder wires burnt up and...