I'm looking for the sort of thing I have on a worktop oven, knob which
you rotate to turn the power on and it winds down on clockwork, giving
you a maximum of 1 hour power. Ideally capable of switching 13A, but it
would be easy enough to add a relay.

For reasons I won't bore you with, I'd rather not have anything electronic.

TIA

On Tuesday, 11 July 2017 18:08:03 UTC+1, newshound wrote:
I'm looking for the sort of thing I have on a worktop oven, knob which
you rotate to turn the power on and it winds down on clockwork, giving
you a maximum of 1 hour power. Ideally capable of switching 13A, but it
would be easy enough to add a relay.

For reasons I won't bore you with, I'd rather not have anything electronic.

TIA

you need a dead microwave.


NT

newshound has brought this to us :
I'm looking for the sort of thing I have on a worktop oven, knob which you
rotate to turn the power on and it winds down on clockwork, giving you a
maximum of 1 hour power. Ideally capable of switching 13A, but it would be
easy enough to add a relay.

For reasons I won't bore you with, I'd rather not have anything electronic.

TIA

Bull Electrical always used to be good for these types of unusual
things..
http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/tutoria....uk/shops.html

Their web site seems not to be well maintained now, numerous broken
links.

On 11/07/2017 18:27, Harry Bloomfield wrote:
newshound has brought this to us :
I'm looking for the sort of thing I have on a worktop oven, knob which
you rotate to turn the power on and it winds down on clockwork, giving
you a maximum of 1 hour power. Ideally capable of switching 13A, but
it would be easy enough to add a relay.

For reasons I won't bore you with, I'd rather not have anything
electronic.

TIA

Bull Electrical always used to be good for these types of unusual
things..
http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/tutoria....uk/shops.html

Their web site seems not to be well maintained now, numerous broken links.

Is this what you want, BUT made in HongKong and 2 pin.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/AC220V-50H... RL4v7enlZbhtQ

On 11/07/2017 18:43, ss wrote:
On 11/07/2017 18:27, Harry Bloomfield wrote:
newshound has brought this to us :
I'm looking for the sort of thing I have on a worktop oven, knob which
you rotate to turn the power on and it winds down on clockwork, giving
you a maximum of 1 hour power. Ideally capable of switching 13A, but
it would be easy enough to add a relay.

For reasons I won't bore you with, I'd rather not have anything
electronic.

TIA

Bull Electrical always used to be good for these types of unusual
things..
http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/tutoria....uk/shops.html

Their web site seems not to be well maintained now, numerous broken
links.

Is this what you want, BUT made in HongKong and 2 pin.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/AC220V-50H... RL4v7enlZbhtQ


Or this from B&Q................

http://www.diy.com/departments/diall...FUWhUQodkKMPOg

On Tue, 11 Jul 2017 18:07:59 +0100, newshound
wrote:

I'm looking for the sort of thing I have on a worktop oven, knob which
you rotate to turn the power on and it winds down on clockwork, giving
you a maximum of 1 hour power. Ideally capable of switching 13A, but it
would be easy enough to add a relay.

For reasons I won't bore you with, I'd rather not have anything electronic.

TIA

Sounds like something they had in billiard halls for the lights.

I wonder if those pneumatic light switches used in the common areas of
flats can be adjusted or modified for 1 hour delay.
--

Graham.
%Profound_observation%

On Tuesday, 11 July 2017 18:08:03 UTC+1, newshound wrote:
I'm looking for the sort of thing I have on a worktop oven, knob which
you rotate to turn the power on and it winds down on clockwork, giving
you a maximum of 1 hour power.

That exact thing is avaavailable from catering equiequipment spares suppliers eg
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/131217553068

Owain

"newshound" wrote in message
o.uk...
I'm looking for the sort of thing I have on a worktop oven, knob which you
rotate to turn the power on and it winds down on clockwork, giving you a
maximum of 1 hour power. Ideally capable of switching 13A, but it would be
easy enough to add a relay.

For reasons I won't bore you with, I'd rather not have anything
electronic.

TIA

dificult.... I managed to get a few mechanical ones at car boot sales but
not retail....homebase did an electronic version which are ok ....

Well maybe a bomber is reading this...
Brian

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"newshound" wrote in message
o.uk...
I'm looking for the sort of thing I have on a worktop oven, knob which you
rotate to turn the power on and it winds down on clockwork, giving you a
maximum of 1 hour power. Ideally capable of switching 13A, but it would be
easy enough to add a relay.

For reasons I won't bore you with, I'd rather not have anything
electronic.

TIA

wrote in message
...
On Tuesday, 11 July 2017 18:08:03 UTC+1, newshound wrote:
I'm looking for the sort of thing I have on a worktop oven, knob which
you rotate to turn the power on and it winds down on clockwork, giving
you a maximum of 1 hour power.

That exact thing is avaavailable from catering equiequipment spares
suppliers eg
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/131217553068

Pity about the price.

On Tuesday, 11 July 2017 18:27:06 UTC+1, Harry Bloomfield wrote:
newshound has brought this to us :

Bull Electrical always used to be good for these types of unusual
things..
http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/tutoria....uk/shops.html

Their web site seems not to be well maintained now, numerous broken
links.

A total of 5 products listed. Everything else is broken or 3rd party links. They used to be useful decades ago, though hardly respectable.


NT

"ss" wrote in message
...
On 11/07/2017 18:27, Harry Bloomfield wrote:
newshound has brought this to us :
I'm looking for the sort of thing I have on a worktop oven, knob which
you rotate to turn the power on and it winds down on clockwork, giving
you a maximum of 1 hour power. Ideally capable of switching 13A, but
it would be easy enough to add a relay.

For reasons I won't bore you with, I'd rather not have anything
electronic.

TIA

Bull Electrical always used to be good for these types of unusual
things..
http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/tutoria....uk/shops.html

Their web site seems not to be well maintained now, numerous broken
links.

Is this what you want, BUT made in HongKong and 2 pin.

And AU plug.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/AC220V-50H... RL4v7enlZbhtQ

On 7/11/2017 6:47 PM, ss wrote:
On 11/07/2017 18:43, ss wrote:
On 11/07/2017 18:27, Harry Bloomfield wrote:
newshound has brought this to us :
I'm looking for the sort of thing I have on a worktop oven, knob which
you rotate to turn the power on and it winds down on clockwork, giving
you a maximum of 1 hour power. Ideally capable of switching 13A, but
it would be easy enough to add a relay.

For reasons I won't bore you with, I'd rather not have anything
electronic.

TIA

Bull Electrical always used to be good for these types of unusual
things..
http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/tutoria....uk/shops.html

Their web site seems not to be well maintained now, numerous broken
links.

Is this what you want, BUT made in HongKong and 2 pin.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/AC220V-50H... RL4v7enlZbhtQ



Or this from B&Q................

http://www.diy.com/departments/diall...FUWhUQodkKMPOg


Thanks, I really wanted something to be permanently wired in. Obviously,
I could canibalise the Chinese one.

On 7/11/2017 6:48 PM, wrote:
On Tuesday, 11 July 2017 18:08:03 UTC+1, newshound wrote:
I'm looking for the sort of thing I have on a worktop oven, knob which
you rotate to turn the power on and it winds down on clockwork, giving
you a maximum of 1 hour power.

That exact thing is avaavailable from catering equiequipment spares suppliers eg
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/131217553068

Owain


Thanks, link noted for future reference. Bit expensive though given that
my little oven was only about £40. And it doesn't even come with a knob!

On 7/11/2017 7:11 PM, Brian Gaff wrote:
Well maybe a bomber is reading this...
Brian


Hadn't thought of that!

ISTR a good example of lateral thinking from the 1970's when the IRA
were using RS mercury tilt switches in car bombs like the one that got
Airey Neave. So someone went and had a quiet word with RS sales and they
passed copies of new orders to MI5, leading to the arrest of a bomb-maker.

On 7/11/2017 6:12 PM, Tim+ wrote:
newshound Wrote in message:
I'm looking for the sort of thing I have on a worktop oven, knob which
you rotate to turn the power on and it winds down on clockwork, giving
you a maximum of 1 hour power. Ideally capable of switching 13A, but it
would be easy enough to add a relay.

For reasons I won't bore you with, I'd rather not have anything electronic.

TIA


I was gonna say, just cannibalise an old microwave but then it
occured to me that most microwaves aren't as old as ours. ;-)


Tumble dryer timer?

Tim

Very good point, forgotten about them. Might even have one in my huge
box of "things which might come in useful one day". I certainly recycled
a washing machine pressure switch from there into a Saniflo a few years ago.

In fact here is one

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Genuine-WH...0AAOSw~bFWQK4F

I can always get down from 140 minutes to 60 by adding a cam.

newshound wrote:

a good example of lateral thinking from the 1970's when the IRA
were using RS mercury tilt switches in car bombs like the one that got
Airey Neave. So someone went and had a quiet word with RS sales and they
passed copies of new orders to MI5, leading to the arrest of a bomb-maker.

I think they were somewhat worried by the arrival of the ZN1034 timer chip.

On 11/07/2017 18:48, wrote:
On Tuesday, 11 July 2017 18:08:03 UTC+1, newshound wrote:
I'm looking for the sort of thing I have on a worktop oven, knob which
you rotate to turn the power on and it winds down on clockwork, giving
you a maximum of 1 hour power.

That exact thing is avaavailable from catering equiequipment spares suppliers eg
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/131217553068

£30? looks like the one my £8 Argos steamer has.

--
Max Demian

On Tue, 11 Jul 2017 18:47:51 +0100, Graham. wrote:

I wonder if those pneumatic light switches used in the common areas of
flats can be adjusted or modified for 1 hour delay.

They can be adjusted but at the longer end of the delay time are very
sensitive to the adjustment screw. ie it'll change when fixed back to
the wall box...

Can you get motor driven 1 hour plug in timers? They are normally
24hr. Grab the guts of one of those and rewire the motor to the
switched side. Turn it so it switches on, it'll run until it switches
off.

--
Cheers
Dave.

In article , Tim+
writes
newshound Wrote in message:
I'm looking for the sort of thing I have on a worktop oven, knob which
you rotate to turn the power on and it winds down on clockwork, giving
you a maximum of 1 hour power. Ideally capable of switching 13A, but it
would be easy enough to add a relay.

For reasons I won't bore you with, I'd rather not have anything electronic.

TIA


I was gonna say, just cannibalise an old microwave but then it
occured to me that most microwaves aren't as old as ours. ;-)


Tumble dryer timer?

Tim
+1
--
bert

In article , ss
writes
On 11/07/2017 18:43, ss wrote:
On 11/07/2017 18:27, Harry Bloomfield wrote:
newshound has brought this to us :
I'm looking for the sort of thing I have on a worktop oven, knob which
you rotate to turn the power on and it winds down on clockwork, giving
you a maximum of 1 hour power. Ideally capable of switching 13A, but
it would be easy enough to add a relay.

For reasons I won't bore you with, I'd rather not have anything
electronic.

TIA

Bull Electrical always used to be good for these types of unusual
things..
http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/tutoria....uk/shops.html

Their web site seems not to be well maintained now, numerous broken
links.

Is this what you want, BUT made in HongKong and 2 pin.


http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/AC220V-50H...chanical-Timer
-Switch-Countdown-Control-Socket-DY-/282387633103?var=&hash=item41bf9d5
3cf:m:mEyh0vu9y6RL4v7enlZbhtQ


Or this from B&Q................

http://www.diy.com/departments/diall...er/800766_BQ.p
rd?ecamp=Seapla&ppc_type=shopping&ds_kids=9270002 0189866510&gclid=EAIaIQ
obChMI7bDno-SB1QIV67DtCh24kANlEAQYAiABEgIpD_D_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds .ds&dclid=
CKK5xarkgdUCFUWhUQodkKMPOg
Well their 24hr mechanical timers are ****e.
--
bert

On 11/07/17 18:07, newshound wrote:
I'm looking for the sort of thing I have on a worktop oven, knob which
you rotate to turn the power on and it winds down on clockwork, giving
you a maximum of 1 hour power. Ideally capable of switching 13A, but it
would be easy enough to add a relay.

For reasons I won't bore you with, I'd rather not have anything electronic.

TIA
see if you can blag a skipped microwave.

FWIW you can buy a switch like that with a (rather poor) microwave
attached from tescos for £35 IIRC

https://www.tesco.com/direct/tesco-s...e/204-8921.prd


--
The lifetime of any political organisation is about three years before
its been subverted by the people it tried to warn you about.

Anon.

On 11/07/17 18:48, wrote:
On Tuesday, 11 July 2017 18:08:03 UTC+1, newshound wrote:
I'm looking for the sort of thing I have on a worktop oven, knob which
you rotate to turn the power on and it winds down on clockwork, giving
you a maximum of 1 hour power.

That exact thing is avaavailable from catering equiequipment spares suppliers eg
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/131217553068

Owain

Vheaper to pop down to tescos and buy their microwave


--
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its been subverted by the people it tried to warn you about.

Anon.

On Tuesday, 11 July 2017 20:38:59 UTC+1, newshound wrote:
Very good point, forgotten about them. Might even have one in my huge
box of "things which might come in useful one day". I certainly recycled
a washing machine pressure switch from there into a Saniflo a few years ago.

Why, have you added a "curry" setting to the saniflo???

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-39176358

Owain

Wrote in message:
On Tuesday, 11 July 2017 20:38:59 UTC+1, newshound wrote:
Very good point, forgotten about them. Might even have one in my huge
box of "things which might come in useful one day". I certainly recycled
a washing machine pressure switch from there into a Saniflo a few years ago.

Why, have you added a "curry" setting to the saniflo???


Shurely shomewhat unneshecessary?!
--
Jim K


----Android NewsGroup Reader----
http://usenet.sinaapp.com/

The Natural Philosopher Wrote in message:
On 11/07/17 18:48, wrote:
On Tuesday, 11 July 2017 18:08:03 UTC+1, newshound wrote:
I'm looking for the sort of thing I have on a worktop oven, knob which
you rotate to turn the power on and it winds down on clockwork, giving
you a maximum of 1 hour power.

That exact thing is avaavailable from catering equiequipment spares suppliers eg
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/131217553068

Owain

Vheaper to pop down to tescos and buy their microwave



NSS
--
Jim K


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On 11/07/17 18:07, newshound wrote:
I'm looking for the sort of thing I have on a worktop oven, knob which
you rotate to turn the power on and it winds down on clockwork, giving
you a maximum of 1 hour power. Ideally capable of switching 13A, but it
would be easy enough to add a relay.

For reasons I won't bore you with, I'd rather not have anything electronic.

TIA

Timer Relay, 0 †’ 120 min, DPDT, 250 V ac - £20
http://uk.rs-online.com/web/p/time-d...elays/5362779/

--
Adrian C

On 7/12/2017 11:33 PM, Adrian Caspersz wrote:
On 11/07/17 18:07, newshound wrote:
I'm looking for the sort of thing I have on a worktop oven, knob which
you rotate to turn the power on and it winds down on clockwork, giving
you a maximum of 1 hour power. Ideally capable of switching 13A, but
it would be easy enough to add a relay.

For reasons I won't bore you with, I'd rather not have anything
electronic.

TIA

Timer Relay, 0 †’ 120 min, DPDT, 250 V ac - £20
http://uk.rs-online.com/web/p/time-d...elays/5362779/


Well spotted, thanks! I didn't think to look in there!

Graham. wrote:
I wonder if those pneumatic light switches used in the common areas of
flats can be adjusted or modified for 1 hour delay.

There are these which are pneumatic and factory-set, apparently go up to 90
mins:
http://www.green-plug.co.uk/

They work OK. Though I'd say their advantages are more in the sense of
having a plug that's reasonably obvious to use and can't be trivially
defeated by the user, rather than the superiority of pneumatics over
electronics.

(the site has a certain degree of greenwash too)

Theo

Theo wrote:
Graham. wrote:
I wonder if those pneumatic light switches used in the common areas of
flats can be adjusted or modified for 1 hour delay.

There are these which are pneumatic and factory-set, apparently go up to 90
mins:
http://www.green-plug.co.uk/

They work OK. Though I'd say their advantages are more in the sense of
having a plug that's reasonably obvious to use and can't be trivially
defeated by the user, rather than the superiority of pneumatics over
electronics.

(the site has a certain degree of greenwash too)

Theo


RS do a run down mechanical 2 hour timer Can be set for shorter time
periods. I use one for a bathroom fan.

On 7/13/2017 9:42 PM, Capitol wrote:
Theo wrote:
Graham. wrote:
I wonder if those pneumatic light switches used in the common areas of
flats can be adjusted or modified for 1 hour delay.

There are these which are pneumatic and factory-set, apparently go up
to 90
mins:
http://www.green-plug.co.uk/

They work OK. Though I'd say their advantages are more in the sense of
having a plug that's reasonably obvious to use and can't be trivially
defeated by the user, rather than the superiority of pneumatics over
electronics.

(the site has a certain degree of greenwash too)

Theo


RS do a run down mechanical 2 hour timer Can be set for shorter
time periods. I use one for a bathroom fan.

Yes thanks, someone else pointed that one out. It wasn't at all obvious
that it could be set for shorter periods, that will make it ideal.

On 7/12/2017 9:52 PM, jim wrote:
Wrote in message:
On Tuesday, 11 July 2017 20:38:59 UTC+1, newshound wrote:
Very good point, forgotten about them. Might even have one in my huge
box of "things which might come in useful one day". I certainly recycled
a washing machine pressure switch from there into a Saniflo a few years ago.

Why, have you added a "curry" setting to the saniflo???


Shurely shomewhat unneshecessary?!


:-)

The saniflo is switched on by water level rise in the reception tank, it
turns out that a washing machine / dishwasher switch works fine. IIRC
the "proper" one was either silly money or came with the electronics
board, or just wasn't available. The "proper" one is a bit smaller,
about 50 mm, but there is plenty of room for the standard 75 mm job.

In article , Capitol
writes
Theo wrote:
Graham. wrote:
I wonder if those pneumatic light switches used in the common areas of
flats can be adjusted or modified for 1 hour delay.

There are these which are pneumatic and factory-set, apparently go up to 90
mins:
http://www.green-plug.co.uk/

They work OK. Though I'd say their advantages are more in the sense of
having a plug that's reasonably obvious to use and can't be trivially
defeated by the user, rather than the superiority of pneumatics over
electronics.

(the site has a certain degree of greenwash too)

Theo


RS do a run down mechanical 2 hour timer Can be set for shorter
time periods. I use one for a bathroom fan.
Anyone got one which will automatically cut off the wife's phone calls
after 59 minutes?
--
bert

On Thu, 13 Jul 2017 21:56:24 +0100, newshound wrote:

On 7/12/2017 9:52 PM, jim wrote:
Wrote in message:
On Tuesday, 11 July 2017 20:38:59 UTC+1, newshound wrote:
Very good point, forgotten about them. Might even have one in my huge
box of "things which might come in useful one day". I certainly recycled
a washing machine pressure switch from there into a Saniflo a few years ago.

Why, have you added a "curry" setting to the saniflo???


Shurely shomewhat unneshecessary?!


:-)

The saniflo is switched on by water level rise in the reception tank, it
turns out that a washing machine / dishwasher switch works fine. IIRC
the "proper" one was either silly money or came with the electronics
board, or just wasn't available. The "proper" one is a bit smaller,
about 50 mm, but there is plenty of room for the standard 75 mm job.

I wouldn't trust a Saniflo to manage a 75mm job!
--
Peter.
The gods will stay away
whilst religions hold sway

Or an old tumble dryer, mine has a month minute mechanical timer

On 7/14/2017 8:23 AM, PeterC wrote:
On Thu, 13 Jul 2017 21:56:24 +0100, newshound wrote:

On 7/12/2017 9:52 PM, jim wrote:
Wrote in message:
On Tuesday, 11 July 2017 20:38:59 UTC+1, newshound wrote:
Very good point, forgotten about them. Might even have one in my huge
box of "things which might come in useful one day". I certainly recycled
a washing machine pressure switch from there into a Saniflo a few years ago.

Why, have you added a "curry" setting to the saniflo???


Shurely shomewhat unneshecessary?!


:-)

The saniflo is switched on by water level rise in the reception tank, it
turns out that a washing machine / dishwasher switch works fine. IIRC
the "proper" one was either silly money or came with the electronics
board, or just wasn't available. The "proper" one is a bit smaller,
about 50 mm, but there is plenty of room for the standard 75 mm job.

I wouldn't trust a Saniflo to manage a 75mm job!

It is tampons and wet-wipes that they don't like. DAMHIK.

On 7/13/2017 10:21 PM, bert wrote:
In article , Capitol
writes
Theo wrote:
Graham. wrote:
I wonder if those pneumatic light switches used in the common areas of
flats can be adjusted or modified for 1 hour delay.

There are these which are pneumatic and factory-set, apparently go up
to 90
mins:
http://www.green-plug.co.uk/

They work OK. Though I'd say their advantages are more in the sense of
having a plug that's reasonably obvious to use and can't be trivially
defeated by the user, rather than the superiority of pneumatics over
electronics.

(the site has a certain degree of greenwash too)

Theo


RS do a run down mechanical 2 hour timer Can be set for shorter
time periods. I use one for a bathroom fan.
Anyone got one which will automatically cut off the wife's phone calls
after 59 minutes?

Our phone bills went down when she discovered FB messenger. And,
amazingly, she doesn't get through 1000 texts a month.