just figured out what the two extra holes are just below the earth terminal of a double 13A socket I bought at a car boot sale ......
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car boot sale sockets
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Usually it's the live and neutral ;-)
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no...this is a single hole just under the earth above live and neutral .....well two of them
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for an indicating neon?
Owain
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turns out it is for fixing to a single paten box to give you a double socket .......
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Just curious why anyone would buy a socket at a boot sale.
Especially one who rather obviously doesn't know what he's buying.
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He's Scottish
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Those are quite expensive usually, if you actually want one.
Owain
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He wanked himself stupid when he found a packet of corn plasters and a pair of shoes that were too small for him for sale in the same car boot.
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Those converter sockets normally come with some blanking plugs to conceal the screws after fixing . If he didn?t get any then he has been diddled and that is usually enough reason to ruin a Porridge Wogs day.
GH
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4 years ago
And usually a spare pair on pegs on the back of the faceplate.
But if they only cost £1 each he can sell them on to someone else for £2 a packet and still be in profit.
Or some silicone will probably fill the holes.
Owain
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double socket converter £4.30
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Exactly. £4.30!
£1.44 for an ordinary socket
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Owain
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4 years ago
Quite. There's at least a chance the Toolstation ones have been through some sort of quality control.
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Quality control by withdrawing a product based on number of customer returns and/or negative product reviews?
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Canny Scots look for value for money. Not the same as buying cheap junk.
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Plus the cost of the double back box, increasing the size of the hole in the wall to take it and all the extra time taken, etcetera ...
Instead, a 5 minute job that will make the extra £2.86 seem well worth it.
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Well you seem to have missed what the holes were for so presumably could not understand or read the instructions that came with them as indicated by ?just figured out? so it would have been easy for you to think the plugs were some free tic tac mints or something.
GH
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4 years ago
Except that it's not going to match any other socket in the room.
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That might not matter if it isn't in plain sight.