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emeritus · 16th Oct 2018, 3:26 pm

I have a 5A Sanders plug. The insulation had already disappeared from one of the pins by the 1950's, leaving black insulation on the other, still intact today.

I can vouch for the inflammability of celluloid. In the mid-1950's an uncle gave me a roll of 35mm nitrate cine film , odd clips and a couple of wartime ministry of food shorts as I recall. It got packed away with my train set, and having read of how such films can deteriorate and spontaneously ignite, I dug it out. It had reached an advanced state of decomposition, so I put it in the garden incinerator, unreeled a few feet to use as a fuse, and lit it. Once the flame reached the main spool, it sent up in a spectacular sheet of flame. Not the sort of stuff suitable for electrical insulation.

16th Oct 2018, 3:26 pm	#17
emeritus Dekatron Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: Brentwood, Essex, UK. Posts: 5,345	Re: Sanders plug suffering the effects of damp. I have a 5A Sanders plug. The insulation had already disappeared from one of the pins by the 1950's, leaving black insulation on the other, still intact today. I can vouch for the inflammability of celluloid. In the mid-1950's an uncle gave me a roll of 35mm nitrate cine film , odd clips and a couple of wartime ministry of food shorts as I recall. It got packed away with my train set, and having read of how such films can deteriorate and spontaneously ignite, I dug it out. It had reached an advanced state of decomposition, so I put it in the garden incinerator, unreeled a few feet to use as a fuse, and lit it. Once the flame reached the main spool, it sent up in a spectacular sheet of flame. Not the sort of stuff suitable for electrical insulation.