Thursday, March 18, 2010


Has it really been that long ?  Yes indeed it has ! A lot of work has been going on at the shed with myself and the scrap dealer now having removed four (4) tonnes of stuff that has been sent off to be recycled into new products.

Heres a selection of some more stuff I have found ....




As I understand it these are trench lights from WWI. Quite worn out but some still have lamps...



Nice one - some Mullard valves for Radio units.


Some quite large relays - these are still wrapped up in their paper packaging. No indication of maker, but condition is amazing 


Now this is a bizarre one. You cant quite see it but inside the glass dome are numbers (I think 0 thru 9) all on top of each other. I am only guessing but maybe they lit up when something was incoming?

Close up of the unit - 
And the brand and made in England !



In the phone area of the shed but sorry - no idea !



These are a lot of fun !  They are VicRail Glasses - I suspect worker glasses for outdoors perhaps in the yards??  All have different types of V.R stamped into the bridge.  Quite cool !!!



Another coil of some sort, quite a large one at that......


No idea what a starter type  C  is but I found the case in one part of the shed and the main component about as far away as you could get on the other side of the shed.....



And lastly, a Siemens RAAF control box, again top and bottom in different parts of the shed...

I put some pics up recently showing how much stuff was piled up against the walls, left by other so-called collectors?

We've obviously been hard at work ! Same area one week later




You can also see that there is some space now appearing which is making easier to navigate around and move some of the insanely heavy machinery out...

Today is a much needed day off, my back is very stiff !

Until next time........










1 comment:

  1. The glass dome with the numbers 1to9 inside is a Nixie tube, used in everything from arcade games to missile control panels. The numbers glow orange.

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