Finding his photographic feet, one photo at a time
I was taking some photos of phones and stuff this afternoon, and Penny decided she wanted to join in. As ever, her joining in involved wandering into shot, lying down and licking her bits.
In phone exchange news – it’s all working! I can make calls through my ATE 10 line PAX. Hurrah! Video will follow just as s0on as I manage to find my youtube password.
This is going to be my entry to this weeks photo-challenge on the theme of music. I had weekend plans to find a bandstand (failed) and I had lighting plans to bounce a reflected piece of music off the pick card/finger plate of one of my guitars (failed due to a dud flash trigger)
So, one light, 30p worth of sheet music from a charity shop and a pair of glasses I found in the back of my car – and I give you the above. Not my best work but certainly not my worst.
Left to right we have “Let me take you there” – Stonedrive and “I believe” – Happy Clappers.
You can tell from the pixels.
I did take a few photos (inbetween designing and playing with phone exchanges) but they weren’t really up to much. This is the best of the bunch, and it’s an interior view of a road menders living wagon.
The AT&E 10/2 PAX (10 line electromechanical phone exchange) I’m restoring has some interesting fuses in it.
They’re designed so that when the piece of fuse wire blows, the flag pops up to let you know which fuse has blown, and a strip of metal pops down to make contact with a bar running the length of the fuse board. This bar is connected to an alarm circuit. If a fuse blows, the alarm circuit activates and a light comes on to tell you about it.
The idea is similar to the fuses I’m used to seeing on the UAX/PABX kit we’ve got at the railway, although they’ve just got two sprung contacts instead of cool little flags.
I’ve done a reasonable amount of googling for every search term I can think of, but can’t find any information about this particular type of fuse (let alone a source for replacements!)
I assume that the colour of the flag (red, blue or black) denotes the value of the fuse, and whilst there are part numbers stamped on the ends, there are no values. The markings are as follows:
| Fuse Colour | Horizontal Slot | Vertical Slot | Makers Mark? |
| Blue Fuse | L27317 | 31/1 | U.C.A |
| Red Fuse | L27318 | 31/2 | U.I.C |
| Black Fuse | L27319 | 31/3 |
I assume the marks in the Horizontal Slot column are model numbers, but I’m not sure what the “31/n” bit is about, especially as it doesn’t match up with the last three digits of the model number.
So – has anyone got any ideas where I could get some more of these fuses? Has anyone got any ideas what value fuse wire I should attempt to repair (or replace) them with?
Last weeks photo-challenge was “product shots” so I sketched out some ideas and headed to the shops. 2 bags of ice, a large roll of foil and a can of sprite later – I shot this in my front room.
It’s not the most original photo of a soft drinks can, but I was aiming for “compitently executed” rather than “exciting and edgy” – as I was looking through the outtake shots, I saw a couple of happy accidents which have sparked a few ideas about what Icould have done differently – so I’m going to revisit the idea at some point.
At the railway on Saturday, we spent all morning digging a trench so that we can bury some conduit accross a gate. Being a deskbound sysadmin, it made a nice change to be outside doing some real work! Left to right we’ve got Ian, David (the level crossing operator), and John.
From this angle, it doesn’t look like much of a trench. So here’s a long shot.
And in one post, I’ve managed to equal Mays photo count. It’s all downhill from here!
I can’t remember the name of Farmer Pauls Dog, but this is he. For some reason, the daft old thing was sat staring at the side of a haystack. This is pretty much the only digital photo I took at Bungay this year, and I don’t think I finished any of the rolls of film I took with me. I must have taken all the photos of buttercups and jugglers that I possibly can over the last 5 years.
I also notice that there are only two photos published here for May, which is really quite poor going. I’ll try and pull my socks up for June.
On my way home, I saw an unusually bright rainbow. I’ve never had much luck taking photos of rainbows, but this didn’t turn out too badly.
It’s a blue building, and a blue sky. It’s where the Bristol&West building used to be in Bristol city centre, but I think it might be a hotel now, I forgot to check.
I did find it in google street view – athough you can’t get to the base of the building as it’s in a bus lane so the googlemaps car couldn’t get close enough.
