[Phillip]

Spent the weekend alternating between family duties, mowing lawns and still more cleaning of the original electrical conduit.

The West Australian climate (or something else) has done wonders for the rubber coated wire, with some of it being melted and stuck to the tubes so removing it has been fun (especially the long tube to the nearside lamp).

Most the conduit is now cleaned of rust and rubber. Every piece of conduit had traces of black on the outside and inside there were trades of red primer ( I assume red lead) so I've used a red oxide primer.

I need to cut down some pipes but cannot find the correct thread for the conduit - at 16TPI for both the 3/4" & 1" it looks like it is UNF but I cannot find any pipe thread cutters in UNF - any suggestions?

I found a carrier light circuit breaker and ignition resister in amongst the FGT parts. I pulled it apart and cleaned it up but the manual does not give any tests - does anyone know how to test these?