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On Saturday, 16 March 2019 19:16:11 UTC, Rod Speed wrote:
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On Saturday, 16 March 2019 12:16:06 UTC, charles wrote:
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On Friday, 15 March 2019 18:38:39 UTC, Rod Speed wrote:
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On Friday, 15 March 2019 12:56:43 UTC, whisky-dave wrote:
On Thursday, 14 March 2019 17:44:24 UTC, tabby wrote:

Can be an interesting question how one can make noncompliant
antiques safe.

It's quite easy yuo just make them comply to the necessary safety
rules.

Like the vulcan bomber, remove the nuclear weapons and all weapons
and makew sure that no one can just jump in and take off in it it
is then consider safe, but it;s still an aircraft that can be seen
and viewed.

lol. How would you make a live chassis curtain burner safe then?

Use and isolating transformer, stupid.

I wanted to see if Dave had a clue. Thanks for ruining that.

He'd already mentioned them earlier on the thread.


I'm not sure what you mean by 'them.'


Isolating transformers.

Fitting an iso won't make such radios pass.


But would mean that they are safe to use.


Curtain burners were so-called because they were prone to setting curtains alight. The mains lead worked ok as long as it wasn't coiled & covered with cloth, but do so & the resistance wire in the lead caused a fire. So no, you can't make one safe by fitting an iso, it would still be a fire hazard. A safe way to drop the voltage is also required. And since you already are using a transformer...


NT