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    New thermostat wires

    Honeywell
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    New thermostat wires

    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
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    BT phone line/service 'upgrade'

    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...
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    Installing single gang in double knockout box

    mk k2200 may do the job There is a bloke on ebay that sells custom made adaptors for about 18 quid
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    BT phone line/service 'upgrade'

    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.
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    A Blast From The Past

    The Metrel i sold you last year
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    A Blast From The Past

    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...
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    A Blast From The Past

    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...
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    MK Masterseal - swap socket possible

    We used to use them for data outlets but noone really stocks them or fcu units nowadays, so its actually more convenient to get sockets and swop out the relevant logic bit to suit our needs
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    MK Masterseal - swap socket possible

    Easy, the plastic lug with the metal discs hold them in, release the top two and the socket falls out, theres three ways either 1, totaly remove the top two discs which is hard as the teeth bite in, 2, bend the metal lips up one side then bend down again after or 3, my favourite lean the...
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    Tallow

    How big were the stocks to thread 2 inch back in the day
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    Horizontal safe zone with 'dry lining' back boxes

    Most rope edged accessories are oversized
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    Horizontal safe zone with 'dry lining' back boxes

    Plasterbox knockouts are usually angled and recessed , i assumed that was so the cable would always exit slightly lower or higher forcing horixontal cabling to be behind the box and in zone, subject to room behind the box
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    Private Number Plates

    Back in 2011 there was a few police driving round london with BO11*** numbers, some were quite amusing
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    What is this?

    Whats that bottom right corner, is it a cut off pullcord you might have pulled accidentally and turned it off
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    Cable rod kits

    I remember that, think YT2 was made by EGA well before marshall tufflex MT2 or even sticky back
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    Fluorescent light ballast help

    To be fair your choke/ ballast looks good, are you sure your using the correct starter, as a failed choke is unlikely to cause the lamp to flicker
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    Old Thorn fluorescent starter

    Hi Harry missed this, I have 35w as well as above message me if your interested, let us know dimensions, will do you a vert good deal
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    Old Thorn fluorescent starter

    Hi Harry, I do a lot of shopfitting and MH gradually disappearing, I have some new 70w electronic ballasts, often there's room to remove the ballast and ignitor and slip them inside, if your stuck and interested message me. Orbis 70 ballasts or similar as are the ignitors are still about but...
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    Fluorescent light ballast help

    Yes that's suitable , also Tridonic EC 18 is a good brand and some still about new,, I assume its a 2ft fitting
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