{"id":1105,"date":"2013-09-04T17:29:46","date_gmt":"2013-09-04T17:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/?p=1105"},"modified":"2013-09-04T17:29:46","modified_gmt":"2013-09-04T17:29:46","slug":"wiring-old-bakelite-light-switches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/2013\/wiring-old-bakelite-light-switches\/","title":{"rendered":"Wiring Old Bakelite Light Switches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes old Bakelite light switches can be used as long as you need a screwdriver to take the lid off them.\u00a0 Some have covers that are screwed on, these should not be used under the current wiring regulations as there a risk that inquisitive little fingers can get to exposed live terminals.<\/p>\n<p>The switches we had in the cottage originally are being reused after cleaning and checking.\u00a0 As I had taken these off I knew how to put them back on.\u00a0 Not surprisingly they aren\u2019t nearly as easy to fit as modern switches but it\u2019s still not a difficult job.\u00a0 Just one that need getting right first time as there\u2019s nowhere to tuck any slack cable.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1106\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/downloads\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/period-light-switch.jpg');\"  href=\"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/period-light-switch.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1106\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1106\" title=\"period-light-switch\" src=\"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/period-light-switch.jpg\" alt=\"Wiring a period Bakelite light swith\" width=\"540\" height=\"361\" srcset=\"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/period-light-switch.jpg 540w, https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/period-light-switch-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1106\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Connecting a period light switch<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The step by step guide will be on the web site when I get around to it. Please comment below if you would like to see how I did it sooner rather than later.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes old Bakelite light switches can be used as long as you need a screwdriver to take the lid off them.\u00a0 Some have covers that are screwed on, these should not be used under the current wiring regulations as there a risk that inquisitive little fingers can get to exposed live terminals. The switches we [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,206],"tags":[412,409,411,410,31,205,230,207,379],"class_list":["post-1105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ido-diy-stuff","category-whitby-cottage","tag-bakelite","tag-electris","tag-light-switch","tag-period","tag-property","tag-renovation","tag-repair","tag-whitby","tag-wiring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1105"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1150,"href":"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105\/revisions\/1150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}