On Monday, 18 March 2019 23:36:31 UTC, Rod Speed wrote:
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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.

Dont believe radios used enough power to do that. And few had their
radio under the curtains anyway. There may have been a problem at
times with just one power point per room, but now that we dont have
that anymore, one of those antiques with an iso isnt going to be setting
fire to the curtains anymore even if the cord does catch fire,

Corse it could set fire to the carpet now instead,
but thats got nothing to do with electrical safety.

So no, you can't make one safe by fitting an iso, it would still be a fire
hazard.

Bull****.

A safe way to drop the voltage is also required.
And since you already are using a transformer...

Still got the problem with the cord catching fire.
In fact a worse one given the higher current.

Well that's one way to show you have no grasp of what a curtain burner is.


NT