Old 13A plugs

[docholliday93]

This page also agrees with the 'inspection' explanation for the hole by the earth pin...

[ARW]

I just used a plug I had made up with the live and neutral connected together and got Lee Spensley (the school idiot) to go around plugging it into as many sockets as he could.

[Graham.]

So it does.

I have seen at least one example of the plug with the fuse rating indicator pointer in the dim and distant.

Incidentally the 5A adapter picture I posted does not show the brand name clearly, but it's "Grelco". A Google search uncovered the fact that the Grelco name is now used generically to describe a particular type of double 15A round pin adapter used in stage lighting.

[polygonum]

Magnesium ribbon straight into the unshuttered L & N of a socket. Switch on.

[Gefreiter Krueger]

prefer modern wiring overall, even if some aspects of it are pointless.

historic wiring practices.

To put things into perspective, out of 7 billion people, that's:

0.0000000429% of the world every second. 1.35% per year.

So I don't believe you. 1.35% per year? Yeah right.

[Windmill]

Yes, right. Approximate life expectancy 50 so in-or-around 2% die every year.

[Gefreiter Krueger]

Of electric shocks? I don't think so.

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

fibreboard pressed into the hole on older MK plugs

Or a blob of some resin, brown or black.

[docholliday93]

fibreboard pressed into the hole on older MK plugs

Although the one I managed to find in my box of bits had nothing at all covering the rivet, although it was set quite a way below the surface. Since it would be inaccessible when the plug was in a socket I suppose that it doesn't really matter...

[Rick Hughes]

I still have a couple of Bakelite adapters.

one that pugs into a BC light fitting and allows you to take power out of them ....used to be in bedsits where there not enough power sockets. The other is a BC two way adapter ... plug into light fitting ... bulb then goes on end so light works as before, the middle has a BC socket so you can take a power feed off ... Guess you can't buy these in local ironmongers anymore :-)

[Gefreiter Krueger]

I don't see why not. If you overload it, the circuit is protected by a fuse.

Oh look, wire what you like into it:

[charles]

I remember buying them in Wooworths in the 50s.

[Frank Erskine]

I don't _need_ to - I have some already.

[meow2222]

been illegal to sell since about 1970. Occasionally spotted online though.

NT

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

Well, quite so. I had a need for one in a boiler house where the only mains available was from a light fitting. I acquired a couple of the BC to lead plug-ins for the next time I was over there. Total waste of time that was, between visits the owners had installed a power socket around the corner, within reach of my extension lead.