I bought a container unseen for £50 including contents from Auction.

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  • @byjingobob
    @byjingobob Місяць тому +49

    The silver panels are hospital nurse call units. The big ones are bed head units and the small ones for treatment rooms/ toilets etc.

  • @colinmac2789
    @colinmac2789 Місяць тому +4

    The Venner time switch @ 31:52 . I came across them as an electrician in the 70s .Absolute quality construction I would bet it still works perfectly . I loved them

  • @davekortbeek
    @davekortbeek Місяць тому +16

    Looks like you have found Doc Brown's workshop from Back to the future. 😂😂😂

  • @shaunpower4868
    @shaunpower4868 Місяць тому +8

    Looks like the back of BT box van,they were designed for removal for vehicle servicing.The metal box on the floor is probably a webasto diesel heater.

    • @TNT-projects
      @TNT-projects Місяць тому

      Defiantly a bt box van , would have been on a Sherpa / freight rover van

  • @joostderidder
    @joostderidder Місяць тому +8

    I'd be glad with all those connector-cables and adapters ...
    at 16.35 ... those were used in hospitals or student-homes or even hotels. Internal radio-system. You could switch to 4 different stations and you have a volume-control.
    Those blue thingies are capacitors.
    For me all nice treasures ... indeed.

  • @rastaralph7154
    @rastaralph7154 Місяць тому +7

    The panels look like what's next to a hospital bed 👍❤️💛💚

  • @johnbarham7718
    @johnbarham7718 Місяць тому +9

    The box is an Earth circuit test set. (I assume an early portable appliance test set, indicated by the 13A fused and 15A round plug sockets..) The button that extracts itself, provides a timer for the charging circuit to ensure consistancy in the testing method.. A very interesting bit of kit, if i were closer I would love to inspect it closer, and -outside- try it on something that I know the result already.

    • @BigKelvPark
      @BigKelvPark Місяць тому

      Just like it states on the label.

  • @andyday4535
    @andyday4535 Місяць тому +9

    The "Early Multimeter" is a Hunts Capacitance Bridge, again at least £20 eBay. The CT530 Wayne Kerr bridge could be £100 eBay. Just don't leave it all out in the wet, do that value as scrap!

  • @astravanmk2
    @astravanmk2 Місяць тому +17

    Looks like a box body off a telecom van. I plan to get one of these as a workshop at some stage.

    • @kevinpattinson-jk8gt
      @kevinpattinson-jk8gt Місяць тому +9

      Hi you are spot on made by papworth in the 80s to 90s for BT

    • @SLEEPYSID99
      @SLEEPYSID99 Місяць тому +4

      Absolutely correct. We used to buy the Transits direct from BT, take the box off and put a flatbed on. In the boxes we had often found propane/12 volt fridges, diesel/propane heaters, road cones and portable barriers etc. The boxes were ideal for storage and we even made a works office out of one, back in the day

  • @Ian6630premium
    @Ian6630premium Місяць тому +7

    Those stainless steel plates with the buttons and a 3pin plug socket on look very similar to what you would have found in hospitals/nursing homes above the beds?

  • @billmacfadyen2627
    @billmacfadyen2627 Місяць тому +20

    Gerry Adams can show you how that mercury tilt switch works. Allegedly!

    • @loyalistu.y.m
      @loyalistu.y.m Місяць тому

      Scum fein/IRA weapon of choice a mercury tilt switch and Semtex Gerry will know all about them

    • @Iaintwoke
      @Iaintwoke Місяць тому +3

      I expect he may be able to. But they were also used on pinball machines and the like for tilt alarms...

    • @PaddyDoc
      @PaddyDoc Місяць тому +1

      Gerry “I was never in the IRA “ Adam’s 😗

  • @alhill975
    @alhill975 Місяць тому +6

    bet big Clive would love some of that stuff

  • @markmooch
    @markmooch Місяць тому +6

    Vertical record players can fetch a bit of money, especially depending on the model and condition a few hundred quid. Cathode Ray TVs are being bought again by retro gamers.

  • @rastaralph7154
    @rastaralph7154 Місяць тому +4

    The first electronic thing you picked up is part of controls for flight simulators on a pc 👍❤️💛💚

  • @revzombie
    @revzombie Місяць тому

    This takes me back to early 80's when our streets where slum cleared so as people moved out we as kids of 10- 11 yrs old we would raid the sheds of abandoned gardens, we used to think any analogue electronic crap was treasure, how innocent we was messing with shit we knew nowt about lol 😊

  • @richardfisher7248
    @richardfisher7248 Місяць тому +9

    They look like the contents of a Nurse call system to be installed in hospitals or nursing homes.

  • @Blueboy9055
    @Blueboy9055 Місяць тому +3

    Not so much your average shed, more like Aladdin’s cave. Excellent video 👍👍

  • @alien8r33d
    @alien8r33d Місяць тому +19

    It's not rubbish, the new shed's full of treasure. The 2 Zenith Data Systems laptops for the start. The value if those is well over the £50 you paid. The Wayne Kerr CT 530 bridge is for measuring electronic component values. You have a military version of this B221 Universal Bridge. 18:40 is an old school capacitance/resistor test meter. I also see electronic components and parts. 24:17 DC PSU means DC voltage Power Supply Unit. Looks like panel meters for current and voltage. Useful. I'd certainly like to be the one going through the contents of that hut, and we could do with a couple of those huts in our garden too.

    • @cliffboulton8763
      @cliffboulton8763 Місяць тому

      @alien8r33d Are you serious with the WAYNE KERR CT 530 bridge bit?

    • @alien8r33d
      @alien8r33d Місяць тому

      @@cliffboulton8763 I don't joke about things like that. Should be B221A. There's one on eBay for £130 at present.

    • @slacko1971
      @slacko1971 Місяць тому

      @@cliffboulton8763 Yes, if you search for the B221 the operating instructions are on the web. Looks like a good bit of kit for vintage radio restorers.

    • @BigKelvPark
      @BigKelvPark Місяць тому

      @@cliffboulton8763 I'd say more like the B221.

  • @Gary-Seven-and-Isis-in-1968
    @Gary-Seven-and-Isis-in-1968 Місяць тому +4

    The Wayne Kerr Bridge is for measuring Inductance in coils. The rest of the "specialized" test gear seems to be focused upon Avionic
    systems testing. You'll probably throw it all down the scrappy anyway, I get the impression you don't want to have a clue.

  • @elliotfuller4783
    @elliotfuller4783 Місяць тому +11

    I’m sure most were quite envious of your garden, the work to tidy it up and improve it was good to see. Now look at the state of it, quite frankly full of scrap and rubbish. Each to their own of course I just thought the lower end was the ‘yard’ so to speak.

  • @TheEmbeddedHobbyist
    @TheEmbeddedHobbyist Місяць тому +4

    like the Gamma Spectrometer, hope it don't glow in the dark :-)
    whats inside could pay for both containers is cleaned and put on fleabay

  • @XtalQRP
    @XtalQRP Місяць тому +7

    The item at 32:00 is a mercury tilt switch. Have a care not to drop it - you really don't want to be cleaning that up!

  • @Drew-Abbott
    @Drew-Abbott Місяць тому +5

    Ive subscribed to your channel, Purley, because you sound like me when I open a box😂😂😂😂😂

  • @johnarmstrong5727
    @johnarmstrong5727 Місяць тому +2

    The container is very similar to the ex BT (ex Post Office) one I bought in 1995 to convert in to a darkroom for my photography. I ended up cladding the outside with steel sheets and added a pitched roof as the original was damaged in a storm , the external cladding and insulation in the ceiling made the thing a lot warmer and a small green house electric heat tube keeps the damp away , if they stay watertight these containers are a good buy.

    • @DavidJohnston58
      @DavidJohnston58 Місяць тому

      I'd love to do one up but they're far too dangerous.
      Cos wife would kill me.😂

    • @johndilloway9762
      @johndilloway9762 Місяць тому

      If nothing else £50 is a cheap shed.

  • @slacko1971
    @slacko1971 Місяць тому +1

    @11:05 it's a shame the manufacturers haven't put a big metal plate on the side of the box explaining what it is and how to use it as that would have been really helpful.

  • @Ash-pq2qp
    @Ash-pq2qp Місяць тому +1

    The ignition tester has an RAF equipment label attached to it. The light is a cockpit light.

  • @PaulsComputerEmp
    @PaulsComputerEmp 26 днів тому +1

    7:48 that is a basically quick shot controller for OLD flight sims maybe 30 quid untested without box, the computer @ 8:18 looks like an IBM AT 5170 is going to be worth quite a bit £150-200 untested

  • @terrystevens5261
    @terrystevens5261 Місяць тому +3

    Looks to me like aviation type test equipment. noticed a couple of references to Smiths Industries and a Smiths Dial of some description. Smiths Industries are based in Cheltenham, now known as G.E. Aviation.

  • @rastaralph7154
    @rastaralph7154 Місяць тому +2

    I love random stuff like that wooden box. It looks like it's for testing electrical equipment efficiency ❤️💛💚

  • @1welshman
    @1welshman Місяць тому +2

    That’s a box back off of an old BT van from the 90’s, I sprayed enough of them to know that St Joseph’s grey paint and you can see the older yellow paint coming through from underneath.

  • @Dansbus1
    @Dansbus1 Місяць тому +2

    You have some good eBay fodder there capacitor tester also you were right with the pat tester. The ignition tester is for jet engines as is a lot of the other stuff. The two panels are for Microsoft flight simulator. The little tv is a Nikki baby 10 .the turntable is part of the sharp optonica series hifi . The rest has been identified above so no point repeating Lol

  • @simonamble4847
    @simonamble4847 Місяць тому +4

    panel call buttons sell them to prop companies they would jump at buying those

  • @hiscifi2986
    @hiscifi2986 Місяць тому +1

    I think the green plastic meter is similar to a Megger (used to measure high insulation resistances,) but for the very low resistances ranges of earth circuits. Maybe the mercury microswitch was used to measure accelerations on board a train, cos houses don't tilt.
    Looks like you need to buy another bigger shed to store all these items ...!

  • @garylinnane917
    @garylinnane917 Місяць тому +1

    A couple of grand in them switches, with metal, copper, and gold within them 😊

  • @johnbarham7718
    @johnbarham7718 Місяць тому +2

    The Wayne Kerr is an admittance bridge . A quick perusal of the net says they are advertised for £40.00

  • @ianallen2
    @ianallen2 Місяць тому

    15:00 looks like the panel above a hospital bed. 13a socker, lamp switch, headphone socket with volume and 5 channels to listeen to and an emergency button and an oxygen outlet.

  • @gutsngorrrr
    @gutsngorrrr Місяць тому

    I recognise many items here, a lot are for hospital bedside old school audio and call systems (I used to install that sirt of stuff. I also recognise a lot of the test equipment. The strange heavy grey thing at timestamp 18:30 is an old cctv camera pan and tilt unit, again, i used to install those as well. A lot if very nice old equipment and some of it is worth a lot of money.

  • @phillipsharpe6459
    @phillipsharpe6459 Місяць тому +5

    What a Aladdin's cave of stuff , you will make money on that , 😁👍

    • @theoztreecrasher2647
      @theoztreecrasher2647 Місяць тому

      Yep. Properly researched and sold there is an absolute fortune in there. And that's on top of if it had only been full of old newspapers it still would have been an absolute bargain! 😉😊

  • @burtbak-jv9go
    @burtbak-jv9go Місяць тому

    the unit would make a good storage shed and worth more than the was paid for the lot

  • @pennyfarthingman
    @pennyfarthingman Місяць тому +4

    I am truly envious! The portacabin is a grand usually! I like the test meters, look like aircraft stuff to me. The sharp optonica is a rare beast, good spares for someone.

  • @kevinbergin6674
    @kevinbergin6674 Місяць тому +2

    The Sharp is an upright record player even for spares it's worth money.

  • @njharper1983
    @njharper1983 Місяць тому

    The Zenith computers are so cool, I'd happily give them a new home. How much do you want for them?

  • @MrSpleenboy
    @MrSpleenboy Місяць тому

    The masterpilot things are gaming peripherals from the mid/late 90s designed for flight sims and such

  • @mjjr1000
    @mjjr1000 Місяць тому

    30:21 I’ve had one of those stereos and it takes records- very loud output

  • @theoztreecrasher2647
    @theoztreecrasher2647 Місяць тому

    Even allowing for any possible cost of disposing of all the crap, that donga is really a great buy! Certainly could use 1 (or 2!) around here to transfer the usual overflow into.

  • @LeighSmith-r4b
    @LeighSmith-r4b Місяць тому

    A TV or film production company might buy some of that to dress sets.

  • @mattyharkin5787
    @mattyharkin5787 Місяць тому

    14/25 > The boxes of ball buttons are very retro now and popular with gamers. Find some techie who can make something out of them such as light up item or mic / sound controller.

  • @markhodgson2348
    @markhodgson2348 Місяць тому +1

    All this should go to someone who understands it all and not simply scrapped off, so many useful electronic components 😢

  • @Fozza455
    @Fozza455 Місяць тому +3

    It looks like the set from Star Trek and the parts off the starship enterprise . At least you’ll get your 50 quid back for the portacabin

  • @NoahLee-g9r
    @NoahLee-g9r Місяць тому

    Well since you would be having alot of scrap metal to sell there mate. Need to do a little clean up first innit? Metal one side, plastic rubber other side. I see you got quite lots of boxy. Well that's what i will do with them metal scraps. I think by the you sellin it, you already cover your 50, the rest would be a bonus! 😊

  • @BigKelvPark
    @BigKelvPark Місяць тому

    It looks like you have a large part of a military aircraft jet testing facility from the late 1950s/60s. The Wayne Kerr bridge wasn't made in 1995 as it was last calibrated in 1968 (expired in 1969) and is the military version of the B221.

  • @HappyMinds1
    @HappyMinds1 Місяць тому +1

    That was amazing.

  • @peskyparttimers8239
    @peskyparttimers8239 Місяць тому

    Looks like someone used to go to MoD surplus sales, probably come off Mildenhall or Lakenheath.

  • @scouse1967
    @scouse1967 Місяць тому

    Like listening to Jethro all over again lol

  • @TheLoxxxton
    @TheLoxxxton Місяць тому

    The panel buttons look like old school hospital call buttons and bedside power panels. The ignition test set looks military.

  • @zombie_craig2921
    @zombie_craig2921 Місяць тому +2

    looks to a lots of aviation equipment :)

  • @newtronix
    @newtronix Місяць тому +5

    Great for testing your English Electric Lightning!

  • @full_time_motorhome
    @full_time_motorhome Місяць тому +1

    The airplane you saw was a US Airforce Osprey. They are based at RAF Mildenhall. Good spot.

  • @andydickson6085
    @andydickson6085 Місяць тому +1

    A lot of those panels (vane position etc.) were for gas turbine running/testing.

  • @grahamallen7259
    @grahamallen7259 Місяць тому

    All i can tell you, is that the company Wayne Kerr, were based in Crawley, west sussex back in the 80/90's

  • @rastaralph7154
    @rastaralph7154 Місяць тому +2

    Do you know how much that roll of mig wire is worth? Let's just say a hell of a lot more than scrap. I would say at least a couple hundred ❤️💛💚

  • @Herbybandit
    @Herbybandit Місяць тому +2

    Looks like you hit the jackpot! Be very careful with that Mercury switch, if you break the glass containing the old quicksilver your gonna have an open can of worms in your pants!

  • @memorialgardens1664
    @memorialgardens1664 Місяць тому

    You are very funny brother 💪🧠🤝🙋‍♂️🇬🇧. Just subscribed 💯.🙌

  • @roberthocking9138
    @roberthocking9138 Місяць тому

    If you showed us a close up of that black label in that tester box it would probably explain what it is. That storage unit should clean up well with a pressure wash and a coat of paint, it will look fine.

  • @edwoodsnowden
    @edwoodsnowden Місяць тому

    The Wayne Kerr device must be worth £50 for a collector or a designer :D

  • @dogwoodtube
    @dogwoodtube Місяць тому +1

    Ignition tester is for earth fault testing on very long cables I believe

  • @Reaktanzkreis
    @Reaktanzkreis Місяць тому

    15:52 a Connection panel for a remote bed unit in a hospital.

  • @nickwinn7812
    @nickwinn7812 Місяць тому +1

    I think you hit the jackpot!

  • @NerdyBeardface
    @NerdyBeardface Місяць тому

    The master pilot is a controller for an old PC game, I'm sure there will be ppl interested in them

  • @digitalexpressions
    @digitalexpressions Місяць тому

    Those two screens with buttons on the sides are the Quickshot master pilot game consoles form the early 90s.

  • @bradfry5403
    @bradfry5403 Місяць тому +1

    I thought it looked like those buttons you get by the side of your hospital bed and I'm obviously not the only one thinking that, maybe the unit belonged to an electrician who had a maintenance contract with the local hospital.

  • @colvillebri196
    @colvillebri196 Місяць тому +9

    Just looks like your other shed when you opened the door, 😂 what have you done with that poor garden, poor Mrs. Mancave what a mess, steptoe and son springs to mind

    • @davidnaudi2601
      @davidnaudi2601 Місяць тому

      Mine is worse 😂

    • @norfolkhillbilly
      @norfolkhillbilly Місяць тому +1

      @@davidnaudi2601 Mine to

    • @colvillebri196
      @colvillebri196 Місяць тому +2

      To be fair so is mine 🤣 I just wanted to make the shed joke really.

    • @lumia57
      @lumia57 Місяць тому

      No mine are worse my darling son just throws everything into my old she and my old caravan was my art studio is even worse people have tried so many times to Rob it but give up straight away 😂😂😂😂😂

  • @mambo12345
    @mambo12345 Місяць тому

    That over head manifold housing sprocket worth a fortune 😮

  • @dogwoodtube
    @dogwoodtube Місяць тому +1

    The old electrical panel are removed from old switch room where you have a back up generator all rubbish them

  • @marksmith-ew7ir
    @marksmith-ew7ir Місяць тому +4

    Sockets look like hospital bedside power

  • @gc6391
    @gc6391 Місяць тому

    The optical record play is prob worth LOADS of it works!!!

  • @gc6391
    @gc6391 Місяць тому

    I would be interested in the old school classroom pencil sharpener! £20?

  • @simitchell
    @simitchell Місяць тому

    Just checked one item you found - jts worth more than what you bought that shed for 😂 congrats

  • @DarrenTutt
    @DarrenTutt Місяць тому +5

    I recon it’s from an airbase! Lakenheath maybe. Maintenance department

    • @Ash-pq2qp
      @Ash-pq2qp Місяць тому +1

      The green tag on the ignition tester is RAF.

  • @bsb4038
    @bsb4038 Місяць тому

    The brown box has a military serial number on top of the lid. Gamma is used in hospitals ie military hospitals or used in cbrn warfare.

  • @antonyjharper31
    @antonyjharper31 Місяць тому

    Hi mate how many old tins were there?

  • @thra5herxb12s
    @thra5herxb12s Місяць тому

    That's all been left untouched for many years rather than all chucked in recently.

  • @DarrenTutt
    @DarrenTutt Місяць тому +1

    You plug that stuff in it’ll be like the northern lights or rather Norfolk lights 🤩

  • @dogwoodtube
    @dogwoodtube Місяць тому

    The gamma test unit could be for a nucleonics level gauge they are use in the oil and chemical industry where contant of the tank is very corrosive or it could be for the old protection relays on old switch gear

  • @nibzy6803
    @nibzy6803 Місяць тому +2

    Biggest box of kelter you ever bought. It will make everyone laugh if the 2nd container has similar stuff inside.😂
    Advertise items as individual lots, they may be worth more than you think. 💻
    Does make you wonder whoever owned the container, what their job was.

  • @vulcanbreeze
    @vulcanbreeze Місяць тому

    The bakelite meter, you thought was an ohm meter, is a megger tester. Sends a high voltage pulse out and measures insulation value in ohms between cables. Interesting, but not worth much these days

  • @clivewiddall3430
    @clivewiddall3430 Місяць тому

    That verticals record player is worth a few Bob working or not

  • @andyday4535
    @andyday4535 Місяць тому +2

    Blue things are capacitors, £10 the box!

  • @simonlunt353
    @simonlunt353 Місяць тому

    Looks like you have some great stuff 😊

  • @Iaintwoke
    @Iaintwoke Місяць тому

    Gamma spectrometer is to do with measuring the pattern on gamma radiation emissions. A lot of this is old hospital stuff.

    • @johnsalt19
      @johnsalt19 Місяць тому

      He wants to make sure he dont get exposed to too much of them there gamma rays or he may turn big n green lol

  • @davidhodgson2813
    @davidhodgson2813 Місяць тому

    I believe that mercury switch is a timeswitch. I have one of similar age and look for a Lansing bagnall electric forklift.

  • @Anti-Peaceforce
    @Anti-Peaceforce Місяць тому

    Those items could be Ideal for movie props.

  • @user-zs2do4dr1o
    @user-zs2do4dr1o Місяць тому +1

    You should put it in Swaffham Auction. You'd probably get £49.99 for it! 😂

  • @junkmonkey4596
    @junkmonkey4596 Місяць тому

    That’s possibly a Wheatstone bridge for testing phone lines

  • @johngoodfellow168
    @johngoodfellow168 Місяць тому

    The whole of the wooden box looks like a cable resistance, insulation and earth tester.

  • @bigbadwolf1966
    @bigbadwolf1966 Місяць тому

    Excellent score, good potential for eBay.

  • @nigehomer9744
    @nigehomer9744 Місяць тому

    That strikes me as being a hut a Hospital maintenance team had. Wiegh most of that in and you have a free shed!

  • @dvrs-e6t
    @dvrs-e6t Місяць тому

    You could sell all of that to a prop studio house. Make a mint.

  • @carllockpick6179
    @carllockpick6179 Місяць тому +1

    Hospital panels ?

  • @samjeffery5743
    @samjeffery5743 Місяць тому

    Great vid boys , only just came across you . Subscribed