2 pin continental to 3 pin UK plug?

CPC do several - black or white, disassemblable or not, and two different makes. They're all under a pound (excl VAT). Never used them myself though.

In some cases yes obviously, but this was a really neat solution and suitable for some situations. Somebody mentioned Sony gear, well I had a whole load of it a few months ago and didn't notice the plugs. The only reason I noticed the Philips was to thread the mains cable through a hole in my hifi cabinet and was about to unscrew the plug when I came across it. The two pin plug slipped through the hole easily so it was a double bonus.

IKEA use the same sort of thing on some of their electrical appliances. I guess that it is cheaper to have the far east factory make everything with a 2 pin plug, and then have some poor sod clip the adapter on for the stuff that arrives in the UK.

PM

Got some Aiwa gear with them as well, although they're a Sony subsidiary anyway, so maybe that's no surprise :-)

Lee

On a related note, anyone know of a Euro-style recessed 2 pin shaver adapter for those chunky power adapter shaver plugs that the newer Brauns come with?

The "plug" body sticks out too far when using a standard adapter, and cutting the plug off is hardly an option! :-)

Lee

My Sony MiniDiscs came with these, but had tamper proof 'one way' screws holding them on.

In message , Brownie writes

CPC do them - about a quid each IIRC. There are two types, ones which you can re-open and ones with a tamperproof locking screw. I suggest the former

Have you just won the lottery ?

My ice cream maker came with one, but I'm sure RS and the like have been selling them for donkey's years.