Schuko socket

you can buy Schuko extension strips fitted with a 13A plug.

In which case, yup fine...

Although why you have toothbrush / shaver etc with a Schuko plug on is another question!

Does the Schuko featured have shutters over the the holes and could lack of them have bearing on the reason for asking?

GH

There's no point in such an arrangement as it limits what can be plugged in. The continental wiring system (with no plug fuses) is far inferior to our own. We abandoned such an arrangement with 5/15amp plugs/sockets seventy years ago. Cut the plug off the appliance and fit a fused 13amp one.

It was abandoned because there was a shortage of cable to wire all the new houses. Not because it was an inferior system. Cut the plug off and any warranty is nul & void.

I cut the 13A plug off all my power tools as soon as I've confirmed they work, and put on a 2- or 3-pin duraplug. I'd have strong words with anyone who refused a warranty claim due to me changing the plug.

Purposes of travel. It's a Europlug, actually but I find a Schuko socket more durable.

Any particular reason? (just curious)

I find them less bulky and less likely to get tangled than a trailing

Yes, it is described as 'shuttered'.

Really? A socket which takes an unfused plug is going to be fine on a UK ring?

Who said it wasn't going to be fitted e.g. on a 16A radial, or a 13A fused spur off a ring?

no, it needs to be fed off a fused spur.

Yes, you are right - it just didn't look big enough but I can see it now in the expanded view.

Many moulded Schuko connectors are of the right angled type - I would imagine that it would look very strange!

Do you mean some form of inline connector? Duraplug also make 13 amp plugs. Can't really see any point in changing to one of those just for the sake of it.

Yes, these

They're rubber so they take a bit of punishment better than hard plastic plugs, they're less bulky than trailing 13A sockets, so don't tend to snag when you're dragging them past stuff.

Yes, when I went through the power cable for the hedge trimmer with the, erm, hedge trimmer, I mended the cable with one. A short cable on such a tool and a drum of cable are much easier to manage anyway.

Indeed. I just call them lawn mower connectors.

OK - although having to find an extension each time I wanted a power tool round the house wouldn't be ideal for me.

Years of working with cables told be drums ain't ideal for everything. Even more so with mains where they need to be fully unwound if taking any real load. Simply coiling the cable and having a velcro tie on it make more sense here - and takes up less storage space.

They do have their uses for very long cables - but rather longer than most would ever need.