If the OP does that, it would clearly be important to label the wires as necessary (and keep diagrams etc.) in such a fashion as to to facilitate the eventual reconnection of them to the switches, since the way they were arranged/connected in the chock blocks would not reflect how they were connected to the switches.
I'm not sure I understand. If the OP doesn't actually label conductors (and keep diagrams etc.), if he does as BAS sugegsted, and connects them together in connector blocks so as to simulate the 'on' state of the switch (e.g. putting the conductors that had gone to C and L1 together into one terminal of the block), how would he know how to re-connect them to the switch?
Don't put them together.
On reflection, I suppose it could be done your way if, as you suggested, one arranged the conductors 'logically' in a block and then added additional links between block terminals to simulate the switch.
I'm still not sure how one would know 'which was which' - but, as I've just posted, I have thought of a way it could be done (with links).
Links aren't needed. The connector is the switch.
If one uses the two sides of the block, that's true. But, if one does that, then how (without labelling/records, a good memory or the knowledge which you and I have) would one know which conductor to put back in which switch terminal?
Quite so - but does that differ significantly from what I wrote, namely:Well, yes. Camera? Pencil? Windows paint?
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