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

[@byjingobob]

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

[@joostderidder]

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.

[@astravanmk2]

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

[@kevinpattinson-jk8gt]

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

[@SLEEPYSID99]

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

[@colinmac2789]

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

[@Drew-Abbott]

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

[@johnbarham7718]

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]

Just like it states on the label.

[@alhill975]

bet big Clive would love some of that stuff

[@HappyMinds1]

That was amazing.

[@rastaralph7154]

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

[@andyday4535]

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!

[@shaunpower4868]

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]

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

[@rastaralph7154]

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

[@rastaralph7154]

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

[@revzombie]

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 😊

[@markmooch]

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.

[@Blueboy9055]

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

[@Gary-Seven-and-Isis-in-1968]

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.

[@TheEmbeddedHobbyist]

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

[@billmacfadyen2627]

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

[@loyalistu.y.m]

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

[@Iaintwoke]

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

[@PaddyDoc]

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

[@XtalQRP]

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!

[@davekortbeek]

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

[@johnarmstrong5727]

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]

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

[@johndilloway9762]

If nothing else £50 is a cheap shed.

[@elliotfuller4783]

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.

[@slacko1971]

@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.

[@terrystevens5261]

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.

[@Ash-pq2qp]

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

[@MrSpleenboy]

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

[@kevinoakes1171]

I reckon most of the electronic doodads came from a former, decommisioned, U.S. military base, somewhere in the U.K. formerly priceless, state of the art technology, now, probably worthless, unless you find the right person. Get some of it whacked up on eBay, see what happens, or, just offload it to someone else who will. Very interesting, indeed

[@richardfisher7248]

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

[@newtronix]

Great for testing your English Electric Lightning!

[@phillipsharpe6459]

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

[@theoztreecrasher2647]

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! 😉😊

[@1welshman]

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.

[@Ian6630premium]

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?

[@simonamble4847]

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

[@hiscifi2986]

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 ...!

[@Dansbus1]

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

[@gutsngorrrr]

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.

[@simonlunt353]

Looks like you have some great stuff 😊

[@kevinbergin6674]

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

[@johnbarham7718]

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

[@samjeffery5743]

Great vid boys , only just came across you . Subscribed

[@njharper1983]

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

[@theoztreecrasher2647]

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.

[@garylinnane917]

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

[@memorialgardens1664]

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

[@colvillebri196]

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]

Mine is worse 😂

[@norfolkhillbilly]

@@davidnaudi2601 Mine to

[@colvillebri196]

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

[@alien8r33d]

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]

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

[@alien8r33d]

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

[@slacko1971]

@@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]

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

[@zombie_craig2921]

looks to a lots of aviation equipment :)

[@full_time_motorhome]

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

[@mattyharkin5787]

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.

[@burtbak-jv9go]

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

[@dogwoodtube]

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

[@andydickson6085]

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

[@rastaralph7154]

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 ❤️💛💚

[@LeighSmith-r4b]

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

[@dogwoodtube]

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

[@BigKelvPark]

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.

[@nickwinn7812]

I think you hit the jackpot!

[@pennyfarthingman]

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.

[@Fozza455]

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

[@peskyparttimers8239]

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

[@dogwoodtube]

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

[@ianallen2]

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.

[@DarrenTutt]

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

[@Ash-pq2qp]

The green tag on the ignition tester is RAF.

[@christianburch479]

Love those Zenith laptops

[@digitalexpressions]

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

[@TheLoxxxton]

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

[@Herbybandit]

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!

[@antonyjharper31]

Hi mate how many old tins were there?

[@grahamallen7259]

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

[@bsb4038]

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.

[@davidhodgson2813]

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

[@mjjr1000]

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

[@markhodgson2348]

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

[@NerdyBeardface]

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

[@scouse1967]

Like listening to Jethro all over again lol

[@nibzy6803]

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.

[@roberthocking9138]

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.

[@vulcanbreeze]

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

[@andyday4535]

Blue things are capacitors, £10 the box!

[@DarrenTutt]

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

[@fairyqueen-m7t]

🤣🤣🤣

[@petergrinnell2500]

Probably more expensive to move them but they are aluminium so should be solid but £50 bargain but needs a good clean and a lick of paint but its cheaper than buying a shed and makes a good workshop but you can make money back selling stuff or scrap it but the racking is all ways handy to have i bet nextdoor loves you with stuff in the back garden and wat a massive one it is as well i would have to build a massive workshop for working on my car

[@junkmonkey4596]

That’s possibly a Wheatstone bridge for testing phone lines

[@Iaintwoke]

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

[@johnsalt19]

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

[@bigbadwolf1966]

Excellent score, good potential for eBay.

[@clivewiddall3430]

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

[@edwoodsnowden]

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

[@craig2606]

wow British content love it

[@xxinsanitybomer4620]

Sound gr8 am sure way lock on it holding something

[@Anti-Peaceforcepolice]

Those items could be Ideal for movie props.

[@simitchell]

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

[@johnbarham7718]

An Osprey as opening. Saw one for real up close three months ago.

[@1969longshanks]

I had a working sharp upright record player, nice

[@andrewmayfield2313]

Silver thing with 3pin power pont look what put side of hospital beds back the day

[@christophergrimes12]

Adam I would like to buy the aux cables from you please

[@plasmaDave]

A prop dealer will take those medical switch panels from you for a small consideration. We stopped dealing about 5 years ago but prior to that sold lots of that kind of crap, there is a good market for it amazingly.

[@robmk3]

Some nice old test equipment there Mancave.

[@Paul-ej1yf]

Adam you may have acquired a lot of old testing equipment also a lot of none ferrous scrap, the testing equipment may contain a lot off pressures metal due to its age please don't get ripped off,

[@henrikjorgensen1614]

Is it spring cleaning from Startrek Enterprice ??? 🤣Keep it up man and have a nice weekend

[@marksmith-ew7ir]

Sockets look like hospital bedside power