Old 13A plugs

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

I was a TV repair tech for the entire 70s and 80s. "Getting a belt" was an almost daily occurrence.

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

And funnily enough you survived.

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Gefreiter Krueger

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

I don't see how that would solve the occasional fatalities caused by historic wiring practices.

NT

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meow2222

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

wiring practices.

It would stop you worrying about what is OCCASIONAL.

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Gefreiter Krueger

I managed to get shocked by a BS546 (round pin) plug in Hong Kong. The fitting was very lose, and as I pulled the plug it fell across my fingers for a fraction of a second before it disconnected.

JGH

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jgharston

I believe you are right Andrew I didn't see it before but now I do. Refer to my picture, running my fingernail over the lower edge of the loose fuse carrier it feels rough compared to the other edges. The brass must have extended down into the recess and across covering the hole in an "L" shape and riveted.

Thanks for solving the mystery. Obvious really, but that's the nature of these things once you know the answer.

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Graham.

He's got three of them. On record, too.

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Grimly Curmudgeon

Isn't that overkill?

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Gefreiter Krueger

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

Some earlyish 13A plugs had a quite big flange (fnarr fnarr) around the L & N pins which made it quite difficult to hook your fingers around unless you really were determined to top yourself.

As a youngster I used to wire together MBC batten lampholders (4d from Woolies) in a series string and poke the ends into a 5A (switched!) socket. I'm still here mumble years later :-)

In fact I was so young that I had some sort of idea that if I used iron wire (which I think I did), it would retain its charge after I switched the socket off...

Yoof of today - pah!

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Frank Erskine

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I dunno . But years ago when radios needed earths it was usually connected in there. There were few electrical appliances in those days but almost everyone had a "wireless set" as it was called then.

Thinking back ,the earth connection was checked by checking continuity between the water pipe and this point. I suppose you could have stuck your probe in the socket earth pin equally well.

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harry

hat about women?

There is a new danger. Iti s the pointy fingers recently evolved to play with mobile phones.

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harry

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

wiring practices.

As I've said before, around 3 people die every second, worldwide. To put things in perspective.

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Windmill

When will I see you again?

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Mr Pounder

Nah, another 359 and he'll have a full circle. :)

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whisky-dave

I have some 7 amp and 1 amp that are black, the 10 amp are white text on a black body. My 2 amp are black too

I work with students. :)

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whisky-dave

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

A form or darwinism, I think they call it survival of the thickest.

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whisky-dave

It looks like it may have been a DIY amendment, with a drill and file. The groove must have been to accomodate a cable.

I'd guess a live wire was required for something.

People (school kids) used to put a bit of foil behind a plugged-in plug, across the unsheathed live and neutral pins. There was an impressive bang w hen the teacher switched on the overhead projector and half-an-hour lost un til the school-keeper and a fuse turned up.

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Onetap

I always thought it was a vent to allow the plug to cool?

That's if you water pipes are all earthed. Mind you there was no plastic in those days so I guess it went underground somewhere.

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Gefreiter Krueger

about women?

I thought the really good texters used only one thumb, at 250mph.

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Gefreiter Krueger

Again?

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Gefreiter Krueger

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