source of Schulte safety plug sought

when i had a strimmer with a proprietry plug into the handle and a stupidly short cable supplied, i chopped the cable about 3 inches below the plug that goes into the handle, then i bought a couple of sets of mower plug and sockets from Been and Queued, put one set on the origional lead to allow me to reconect it, and made up a longer lead using just one of the sockets from the other set,

i thought about having a 3 pin plug to one of the mower plugs pig tail, then have a selection of different length cables with the mower plugs and sockets on each end, if i needed longer than the longest one, i could just plug in another one between the long lead and the 3 pin pigtail.

Hi Gazz

That's the sort of thing I want to do, but have an RCD plug on the end of the cable.

I'm not very impressed with the quality of most of the 2-pin 'outdoor plug/socket' sets I see advertised - are there any better ones around?

Cheers J^n

What's wrong with them?

NT

They are made of 'rubberised' plastic which isn't really, so they are hard to mate properly and easy to damage when mating/demating. They are unpolarised, which I dislike - I like to know my live from my neutral, even if the device is double-insulated. And they are two-pin as well; I would like 3-pin ones.

Apart from that, they're fine ;-)

J^n

They come in 2 and 3 pin variants, and polarised and unpolkarised. I've never had them get damaged, but I've avoided the thinner walled and more complex ones, sticking with the old fashioned round pin types. Those are as robust as it gets.

NT

PS if they didnt mate stiffly, theyd fall out during use.

NT

Link please? Ta.

I know what you are saying, but the ones I have used I can see getting damaged with relatively little use, due to the combination of the deformability and strength of the material used. Sounds like you know of better ones...

J^n

All my power tools, garden tools and extension leads are fitted with

Duraplug was mentioned, and really any make is good as long as you can see its robustly made. Flying Dung brand should be fine. I dont know where to look to buy them new, thre have always been more around than needed.

NT

replying to The Night Tripper, Peter T wrote: Same problem. Did you ever find a plug?

If you ask via a proper Usenet posting (ie. not through H*m$Own$rsH!b) I'll tell you

JKN, aka TnT

He's probably given up after six and a half years and, even if he did find one, probably doesn't frequent that stupid hub any longer, anyway.

I'd never heard of a Schulte Safety Plug but it looks very clever and the built in leverage to help ejection, particularly for the elderly, is particularly clever although I don't think that Schuko arrangement is really what was used on his mower.

Won't be suitable for conversion to a 13A version, though, as it only works with recessed sockets.