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Old 19th Jun 2020, 8:09 pm   #57
philthespark
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Default Re: Neon Tester Screwdrivers

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'...used to be known as a 'box of eggs', this is 2 boxes with handles that are placed one on the track rail and the other on the conductor rail, perfectly safe.
Would this be a box with lamps connected in series, like a giant test-lamp? I remember as a kid watching 'Blue Peter' and Noaksey went down the underground with the night maintenance team, and I saw them using one of those!
That's the one, we still have them on the network, another one we use is a voltstick, there has been a few incidents of people getting shocks off the trackside cabinets that hold the equipment, so now we have to implement 'test before touch' , simply put, before you touch ANY cabinet or box or enclosure you touch it with the voltstick, if it lights you don't touch it and you have to get someone else out.

some rail testers,the first is a very early 'box of eggs' the second a modern self testing version and the third a modern test lamp set for the same thing,note the hand guards
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