The old days? Fairy lights still are like that (except the LED ones).
All I'm concerned with is fire, nevermind a little shock now and then.
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Bell wire rating
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I suggest you look a little closer.
I think you will find they are double insulated and marked Class II, not Class O.
Do you remove items from your toaster with metal implements?
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True, but that argument appears to suggest it would be safe to use buried in plaster, but its still not allowed.
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Not really - the risk of damaging the single layer of insulation burying in a masonry structure is too high (nicks from tools, rough brikwork etc) and plaster is surprisingly conductive (you know, but someone else appears not to think so).
I knoe it's all troll food in this case, but I'm happy to debate anything :)
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plaster, but its still not allowed.
Not allowed isn't always anything to do with safe. It's paperpushers making shit up.
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I guess I haven't got that new fairy lights then. The wire is stranded copper with one sheath of plastic. Two such wires glued together.
No point in making the wire safer, the danger would be from the flimsy little bulbs which would make up to 240 volts available to your fingers (or mouth in the case of a baby eating one).
I've had several shocks from the mains, it's not dangerous.
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And it caused no brain damage at all.
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I don't tend to insert the wires into my ears.
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I would hardly describe a bunch of chartered engineers as "paper pushers"
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There are two sets of people in this world. Those that do things, and those that tell others they're doing it wrong. I prefer the first kind.
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One cannot damage that which does not exist.
Which appears to be your point.
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Really? I'd say it accounts for your fried brain.
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I didn't insert the wires into my ears.
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You don't suppose that the engineers who sit on the regs committee might also have other actual jobs too?
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That's just greed.
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You only get let into such committees if you're a health and safety conscious twatt.
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About 3 posts back he claimed it was!