Anyone seen one of these before

[Andy B]

Helping out fixing a Kiss.

Installed new replacement power rectifier board tonight. Found some wires soldered from the back of the board directly from header pins connectors J1 and J3 to the black thing below and then on to wires in loom.

I am guessing some kind of G.I. workaround to get round issue of melting connectors but no idea what this is. Just some kind of block - weirdest one I’ve ever seen if it is but then looks like machine has come from France as handwritten notes on schematics and wiring diagrams in manual so maybe some kind of French connector block. Really intriguing.

Anyone seen this kind of thing before?

 

[Fantazia2]

Is it not a fuse block with the connections soldered together and the fuses removed.

 

[Andy B]

Is it not a fuse block with the connections soldered together and the fuses removed.

Don’t think so. The metal parts are not fuse clips they were like metal fingers. The block itself was built up in layers and the material felt like the ceramic resistor material you see on data east boards.

 

[AlanJ]

looks like a jones plug from an em game

 

[AlanJ]

it will pull apart