How's this for DIY special?

[usenet]

What the ?!£$" has an engineering degree got to do with it? I have a degree in electrical engineering too but there was no part of the course that had anything remotely to do with such mundane things as wiring accessories.

a "qualified electrician" is a totally different animal from an "electrical engineer" in the same way that a garage mechanic is different from a car's designer.

I think "plug top" is a description I would rarely use but I *might* use it to clarify something where the word plug would be ambiguous.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

Ask one of the many tradesmen you claim to know.

[Doctor Drivel]

[Mr Fizzion]

Still you could join the IEE * which an electrician cannot. So you could potentially sit on the comittee which regulates what the electrician can do.

Mr F.

*after appropriate engineering experience which may not be specifically electrical engineering - they admit software engineers too - God alone knows why.

[Clive Dive]

Miaow, saucer of milk for table nine please. FFS I wish I hadn't bothered! Still, some of the comments made it worth while. I feel the standard of debate within this forum is on the decline though. Yes I am old School [49 asolutely prehistoric] I remember wooden back boxes, 3/.029 3/.036 etc etc .1's. 3 core and ECC when it was red white and blue. TRS and floorboard saws. Hot potted Pyro and Copperclad...and the days before t'internet where people had to keep their puerile comments amongst their 'limited group' of friends and not pontificate across the 4 corners etc etc etc. Getting bored now

[Andy Luckman (AJL Electronics)]

How do you get the wires to stay in the plug top? Don't you have to wire into the plug body, where the pins are?

[The3rd Earl Of Derby]

You never did get round to telling us what the job call entailed?

-- Sir Benjamin Middlethwaite

[Andy Luckman (AJL Electronics)]

It's commonly known as a plug because that's what it is. You have a plug and socket, not a "plug top" and plug.

[Mr Fizzion]

We kept you entertained for a few hours at least.

Mr F.

[Christian McArdle]

Well if you want to single handedly remove all synonyms from the English langauge (and presumably replace your final plug with socket or, better, socket outlet).

Christian.

[mike ring]

Mr Fizzion wrote in news: [e-mail]:

See if you can find "pattress" there; you couldn't have lasted 5 mins in my job without being familiar with it

mike

[Andy Wade]

Interpretation error then. I construed "those who see themselves as the last defenders of standards in English/Engineering" as the ones who would want, logically, to call the article in question a "plug" and not a plug top" and "the face of reality and common usage" to refer to the usage of "plug top" - because it is in very common use in the electrical trades. IYSWIM.

[mike ring]

"Clive Dive" wrote in news: [e-mail]:

I think your summing up is right.

My school is not as old as yours but all you quote is familiar; fondest memories of terminating pyro in Malaya......

But at least I've learned how much credence to give to one or three of the posters

mike

[Bob Eager]

Just shows that the Internet is not infallible; the term has been around for 40 years to my own knowledge.

[Bob Mannix]

Ah yes, interpretation (on my part) I felt that the last defenders of standards in English /Engineering were quaint and old fashioned for so doing! I see you felt the opposite hence the confusion. If we are not careful we will be on to metric/imperial soon, you mark my words! ;o)

[Clive Dive]

Thats easy, we use a large amount of NASA technology,lubricate with elbow grease and pass over to the situation assessor. We then take the nearest pedant and use his noggin to beat the wires into place,presuming said pedant has not interim exited his domicillary portal in search of a life

Carpe diem; cogitus ergo descendus

[Owain]

Don't give the government ideas.

Well, the way the ones in my local B&Q were wired definately wasn't. Plug-plug extension lead for an electric mower.

Owain

[Owain]

The 1930s electrical book I have is insistent that "plug" is what is screwed to the wall, and "plug top" is what is attahced to the appliance.

The term "socket" is for the brass things inside the plug.

Owain

[Owain]

... whiskers on kittens?

Wosserdiffrence then?

Owain

[Steve Walker]

Try "britney nude", you'll get even more..... :o)