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27th Jan 2020, 5:20 pm | #1 |
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What are these sockets?
Hi,
Does anyone have any idea as to what these rather tatty-looking sockets are? Colin. |
27th Jan 2020, 6:01 pm | #2 |
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Re: What are these sockets?
Looks to me as though they might be dual purpose, designed to accept either an American plug with two flat pins or a plug with two round pins.
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27th Jan 2020, 6:09 pm | #3 |
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Re: What are these sockets?
Something looking very much like that was sold in the mid-1980s as a 'no-break' connector for 10Base2 Thinwire Ethernet.
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27th Jan 2020, 6:21 pm | #4 |
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Re: What are these sockets?
They look a lot like french telephone plugs. I assume they are not however in France?
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27th Jan 2020, 6:37 pm | #5 |
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Re: What are these sockets?
Where are these plugs located - i.e. country?
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27th Jan 2020, 6:51 pm | #6 |
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Re: What are these sockets?
I'm afraid I don't know, it is a crop from a larger photo. However, I suspect it may be from Eastern Europe, Russia or a former Soviet State
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27th Jan 2020, 8:03 pm | #7 |
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Re: What are these sockets?
I'd say they are too short for French telephone....
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27th Jan 2020, 8:13 pm | #8 |
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Re: What are these sockets?
Looks like French telephone sockets to me.
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27th Jan 2020, 8:24 pm | #9 |
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Re: What are these sockets?
I was thinking Electrak but not so sure now.
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27th Jan 2020, 8:34 pm | #10 |
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Re: What are these sockets?
I thought they could be 'no-break' Ethernet sockets, but in retrospect I was wrong.
[see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EAD_socket for what I mistook them for] |
27th Jan 2020, 8:38 pm | #11 |
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Re: What are these sockets?
I like the dual plug idea from broadgage.
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27th Jan 2020, 10:19 pm | #12 |
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Re: What are these sockets?
If you think of each pair of slots as a socket then a US flat pin plug would fit in the long rectangular slots and a European round pin plug would fit in the rounded ends of the slots.
Why you would want to that beats me. Peter Oops broadgage has already had that idea. Last edited by Electronpusher0; 27th Jan 2020 at 10:20 pm. Reason: Duplication |
27th Jan 2020, 10:42 pm | #13 |
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Re: What are these sockets?
The style of the faceplates seems American to me, don't think it would be telephone related though as having three telephone outlets together seems a bit strange.
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28th Jan 2020, 1:12 am | #14 |
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Re: What are these sockets?
The common (West) German telephone socket (TAE connector) was often installed in a set of 3
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28th Jan 2020, 5:39 am | #15 |
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Re: What are these sockets?
Those are neither a U.S. power outlet (Flat blades parallel on most, but no angled ones that look like that; nor are they a U.S. telephone jack. Most of the old jacks were 4 pin, as our phones used 4 wires, and 2 pins of the 4 had closer spacing.
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28th Jan 2020, 2:50 pm | #16 |
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Re: What are these sockets?
I could understand if they were in a hotel room to fit both US & European 2 pin plugs.
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28th Jan 2020, 8:33 pm | #17 |
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28th Jan 2020, 9:17 pm | #18 |
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Re: What are these sockets?
Hello gentlemen,
these sockets are definitely not (West) German TAE sockets. Such were rectangular shaped, not keyhole shape. I am puzzled because the slots are in a strange angle within the frames. Joe |
28th Jan 2020, 11:42 pm | #19 |
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Re: What are these sockets?
If, as seems likely, these are designed for either US flat-pin plugs or European round-pin ones, then presumably one or the other would have to be at an angle to enable the correct spacing between each.
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29th Jan 2020, 12:15 am | #20 |
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Re: What are these sockets?
Could they be a non standard socket in another country, like the Walsall Gauge plugs and sockets are in this country?
Have a look at the www.plugsocketmuseum.nl website. |