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:

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.

Ian and I went for a quick wander around some of the more interesting 60s concrete buildings tucked away in bits of the main shopping area of Bristol, bits you can’t really see from the shops.  We were on the look out for one-shot-architecture photos for this weeks photo-challenge.

I found the “take one shot, and one shot only” approach quite interesting, mainly because I found it stopped me chimping.  There’s no point in looking at the photo you’ve just taken, if you know you’re not going to have another go at it.

I found this remarkably liberating!

On Saturday, after working at the railway terminating cables, I popped along to Lydney Harbour with my camera for a bit of an explore.  This ropey old jetty was off to one side of the harbour proper, I did think about going out along it to see what the view was like, but it was more than a little bit wobbly.

This rope was down one side, and I could see the post it was tied to at one end, but couldn’t work out what the other end was tied to.  Any suggestions?

There weren’t many boats around, but there were a couple of hovercraft – which you don’t really see that often in Bristol.