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Part of the reason for the missing fuses. According to Simon's photo naming, this is in the "byre." (That's a cow-shed to the rest of us outside of Scotland! Should have mentioned before that this is north of the border.)



Here's the inside of the isolator shown in the first photo (note the non-standard color coding in places):


Back to Simon's own description:

Simon has literally dozens of pictures from this place, and from the ones I've seen so far it's the typical rambling old farm. I've seen plenty of similar installations on the English side of the border.

Here are just a few more pics for now.

More rusty old MEM switchgear in the milking parlor:


A washing line being used as a support for a lighting cable:


One of the old diesel pumps, with the price indicator still in shillings and pence:


Hey Simon, do the Weights & Measures people know he's still got a pump calibrated in gallons?



[This message has been edited by pauluk (edited 11-15-2004).]

Great pics!.
I'd agree in saying that this installation is a real mess, from start to finish.
Regarding the Metal-Clad Switch gear being used outside, I was always under the impression that, this gear was not meant to be used without some sort of weather protection over it?, as there are no seals around the inside of the cover.
Hmmm,
It's been a while since I've seen one of them single circuit Switch-Fuse units still in use, like the one supplying the Boiler in pic No.5.
Sven,
You could probably just about rate Solder as "Close-Protection", it melts a lot quicker than Tinned Copper Wire.
In the 3rd pic from the bottom, I see a Reyrolle socket, is this still being used?.
We banned the use of these here in 2000.

just had to go up and give it a quick check.

Everything is dead except the byre, the 3 phase panel and of course the house and garage and generator house.

I will check every last circuit just to be on the safe side as I've found more circuits that nobody knew about.

It will be a long slow process updating everything as I'm only doing it in my free time and the farmer himself is in no hurry to modernise.

Simon.

Simon: So after you're done, are you going to add all those relics to your collection?

What's a Reyrolle socket?