Johnson & Phillips Enfield Standard Cable

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Found this under my lounge floor. It was actually attached to a live socket at one end and the stripped end you can see was lying under the floor. The live and neutral were literally a whisker apart. And it's been like that since 1994!

Anyway, I thought it was of historical importance(!)

The house was built in 1960 and the cable is stranded, but not the CPC. The plastic is a predecessor of PVC. I'm not sure if it is Ashathene, but it is very similar. It's harder than PVC and the colour (at least of the red insulation) has a slightly translucent quality.

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securespark said:
Found this under my lounge floor. It was actually attached to a live socket at one end and the stripped end you can see was lying under the floor. The live and neutral were literally a whisker apart. And it's been like that since 1994!

Anyway, I thought it was of historical importance(!)
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Ta for sharing.

Actually this reminds me of finding large rolls of old VIR under the floor. It looked like they rewired the sockets and left the old cables lying under the floor. Lazy scumbags!
 
Jurassicspark said:
Ta for sharing.

Actually this reminds me of finding large rolls of old VIR under the floor. It looked like they rewired the sockets and left the old cables lying under the floor. Lazy scumbags!
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When I rewired my downstairs RFC sone years ago, I found a load of old lead sheathed T&E left from the previous rewire!
 
I re piped my central heating last year, found a delivery note for paint from 1969, beautiful handwriting and a 70s porn mag
 
Jurassicspark said:
Ta for sharing.

Actually this reminds me of finding large rolls of old VIR under the floor. It looked like they rewired the sockets and left the old cables lying under the floor. Lazy scumbags!
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I have found that sort of stuff countless times.

And when I was doing a fire alarm at a boarding school, we found some jazz mags under the floor in one of the boys bedrooms.
 
One of the old properties I worked in had a void under the ground floor, I'll estimate around 5ft on one side (Built on a slope). There was a big gap between floor boards and someone had posted magazines and newspapers mostly general domestic stuff; practical gardening,motorist, womans weekly, yours etc sort of thing plus health and efficiency and porn mags. All very dated and elderly, this pile had completely filled the height of the void with a pyramid probably reaching 12-15ft across.

The problem it created was all the vermin nests and the reason I was there to investigate electrical faults, being the damage to cables.
 
My best ever find was on top of a wardrobe in a remote farmhouse owned by two retired teachers, prints of digital photos of the couple and a young man getting up to mischief in a Travelodge, there was also a VHS tape
 
crystal ball said:
My best ever find was on top of a wardrobe in a remote farmhouse owned by two retired teachers, prints of digital photos of the couple and a young man getting up to mischief in a Travelodge, there was also a VHS tape
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35 years ago I helped an elderly neighbour emptying the loft, she was widowed and starting to find the stairs an effort, so selling up and moving to sheltered accomodation - She'd walk ¾ mile each way into town and back with her shopping trolley 2 or 3 times a week but a couple of steps was different.

There was all the usual stuff: well rotted camping gear, big pile of old curtains, clothes and bedding in poly bags absolutely riddled with moth, loads of bound sets of weekly/monthly magazines, leather suitcases gone very hard and missing/broken handles & catches, Items of furniture. Of course there were current things too well as current as the last time either of them were able to get into the loft.

Oh and about a dozen boxes (mostly large shoe boxes- work boots sort of size) containing standard8 films, mostly 3"/50ft but some had been edited into 6 or 7". I reckon there was several hundreds of hours worth. One box she opened and straightaway she said it was her husbands box of naughty films and didn't want it... Well my interest was piqued and checked them.
The whole series of Bonanza filmed from the TV complete with a reel to reel tape (15/16 IPS) for the sound complete with timebase buzz and the sounds as the pair of cameras were reloaded, selection of commercial films - mostly things like London to Brighton by train in 5 minutes & mystery trip to Delft. Of course there were some pornos in there too, in some parts we saw some thigh and even a nipple. I suspected some of it was my neighbour from 50 years earlier. In some ways I wish I'd hung on to some or copied to VHS.

This is one of those events in my life which has been forgotten until reminded.
 
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