New 13A plug

[Peter Parry]

I used to use old volume control spindles cut to length - just the right diameter and solid copper. You had none of these silly fuse failures you see these days.

[tabbypurr]

A thin filament of wire between dead fuse & holder works, but the ampacity is inadequate for safe fusing. Similarly bare wires under all metal plug pi ns works, but safe it's not. I remember eating in a place where all the plu g tops were taped on, and some didn't fit. Sockets that needed a kick to wo rk weren't unusual once. And bare wires going into pendant lampholders. Tim es have moved on.

NT

[Bob Eager]

The ones where it emerges at the earth pin end are a pain on some double banked socket strips, as they collide with the plug opposite.

[Andy Burns]

Neither the foldingplug or the thinplug seem designed for screw terminals, so you'd be looking at buying moulded replacement leads for kit with C6/C8/C14 inlets.

I had one, it went rather brittle.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

Great for a Hi-Fi etc where things still have captive leads. No wonder it didn't make it.

Yes - the fixing screw boss for the plug cover? But a bit of superglue sorts it.

[whisky-dave]

I've always found it useful to cut them up into differnt lenghts.

20mm being common herem and 1 1/4 inches, even 5/8th inch. :-)

[mark.bluemel]

I may have mentioned before that my late father was a radar fitter during his National Service. He claimed that if a fuse blew, they'd replace it with a cut-down nail then replace the part which subsequently burnt out...

[jgh]

But the mess behind TVs, HiFis and computers and semi-permanent wiring, the whole point is once you've plugged everything up you aren't going to be messing about with it.

jgh

[dennis]

They do that with the mains around here, underground fault kept tripping the supply so they fitted an auto re-connector in the substation and the cable blew up a few hours later. Then they fixed it.

[Halmyre]

Company I first worked for assembled circuit boards (loads of DIL CMOS chip s) for various customers. If the automated tester threw up a short on the p ower lines the quickest solution was to get a big f*ck-off PSU and apply po wer to the board. The short quickly vanished (usually!) and another run thr ough the ATE identified the failed component if the Mark 1 eyeball couldn't spot it.

[ARW]

That's just for drills:-)

[tabbypurr]

It wouldn't be a bad plan to rerun some of those 70s info films today. We'd have less kids doing such stupid things. Not sure how applicable the drill one is now though.

NT

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In message , ARW writes

I recognise him! He was in The Sweeney, I think.

[Mike Tomlinson]

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