What are these?

[sardine]

He's migrated from the Freemans catalogue lingerie section!

I liked that, though obviously i dont know what you're talking about.

( we only had Littlewoods)

 

[Woody.v8]

Ha , freemans, that's a blast from the past! Are they still going?
I can remember them selling Tomas mopeds and air rifles, all on the strap of course.

 

[Wendelspanswick]

I bought my first welder, a 140 amp air-cooled arc welder from my Mum's Kays catalogue, in 1983 I think.

 

[123hotchef]

I just remember the underwear models

 

[the snooper]

Printing plates, or embossing plates.
No idea why copper, tho - is there a reason one wouldn't use a steel plate on (aluminium?) signs?

printing plates were commonly made from copper

 

[Woody.v8]

I just remember the underwear models

All our catalogs pages were always stuck together in that section

 

[johnl]

I bought my first welder, a 140 amp air-cooled arc welder from my Mum's Kays catalogue, in 1983 I think.

I also bought my first welder from my Mum's catalogue an Elto 90 amp from Kays in 1969 and I still have it.

 

[Cobbler]

I just remember the underwear models

My wife's cousin ended splitting up with his fiancé because he was looking at the underwear pictures in one of the catalogues. If she got upset at that, I think he was better off without her.

 

[doubleboost]

Make a Christmas light with it.

The BL Maestro had this type of dash
Shame about the front wheel bearings

 

[pedrobedro]

I liked that, though obviously i dont know what you're talking about.

( we only had Littlewoods)

My wrought used to do the casualties and my niece came to order some bras. She picked the catalogue up and turned to the index and I said it'll be page 386 Oops. (it was)

 

[bigegg]

easy to carve / machine and they don't corrode perse, just tarnish

The other stuff that gets used for printing plates according to the Mrs is zinc and its seriously soft

interesting...
cos I have a load of old printing plates which I was told was aluminium.
But I want some zinc to make some zamak

 

[Wallace]

(we only had Littlewoods)

They were more frequent too in those days!

 

[Wedg1e]

There was a couple of cars in the 70's that had this for dashboard and heater control illumination, Jaguars was one I think.

Colin

Yep, used on the Princess as well I think. TVR nicked it for the Wedges. The bulb used was as dim as an Essex girl (not Rachel ).
The TR7 (IIRC) used a similar idea but had a transparent bar that ran along behind the switches with the bulb at one end.

 

[Mee]

Hi, The Ann Summers implement is part of a fibre optic light display, the big brass end has a light source which transmits the light down the fibres to give a small pinpoint of light on the end of each tail. There was a couple of cars in the 70's that had this for dashboard and heater control illumination, Jaguars was one I think.

BMW and Mercedes for illuminating their rotary switches, many plant and machines claiming to be High Tech for their day, and a number of aircraft as well as monitoring instruments.

 

[winchman]

I like the printing plates they would look good on my garage wall should you wish to part with them?
The fuses are just big fuses for a big machine etc.

 

[Crater Creator]

The BL Maestro had this type of dash
Shame about the front wheel bearings

Ha! Yes! I had an MG Maestro back in the early 90s and I became a dab hand at changing those bloody wheel bearings.

 

[tlovatt]

Any ideas? I'll take a close up of a label later, I think the big ones are something like 40KA.

They are HRC (High Rupture Capacity) fuse links, Technically you will have a base holder (which the wires attach to and has terminals for the fuse link) a fuse holder or carrier which the fuse link fits into (for the purposes of inserting or removing as well as providing a cover) and the fuse link (the bits you have pictures) all together they make a fuse.

40kA will be the rupture capacity. When working near transformers you can get some very high currents flowing through a short circuit which can lead to normal fuses detonating as the heat up so quickly that the material shatters. HRC fuse links are strong shells filled with sand and the fuse link wire so that any rupture is contained.

If you Google red spot fuses you will see plenty of examples although they are similar to BS88 fuses but normally have larger / additional contacts.

Sad fact for the day, almost no one ever seems to be aware that you are supposed to re-grease they every year.

 

[colnerov]

Ha! Yes! I had an MG Maestro back in the early 90s and I became a dab hand at changing those bloody wheel bearings.

Hi, The only thing that went quicker than the wheel bearings were the tyres, they used to knock them out in very short order.

Colin

 

[Robotstar5]

If you Google red spot fuses you will see plenty of examples although they are similar to BS88 fuses but normally have larger / additional contacts.

Sad fact for the day, almost no one ever seems to be aware that you are supposed to re-grease they every year.

Well you learn something every day coming on here, I've been an industrial sparky for 40 years and never knew that

 

[Robotstar5]

Hi, The only thing that went quicker than the wheel bearings were the tyres, they used to knock them out in very short order.

My MG Maestro would wheelspin in 2nd so yes they did get through a few tyres