On Sat, 11 Feb 2006 11:05:23 +0000, Andy Dingley
wrote:

On Fri, 10 Feb 2006 20:39:12 GMT, T i m wrote:

Ah, I used to work with kit (and would sometimes add to our servers
etc) a clipped version of the socket that stopped the plug falling out

Those clips are rubbish - if you're lugging the kit around, then they
catch on things and bend.

Like that mains lead you know you should stop and collect up .. now
if you *wanted* to tie a perfect bowline round a door handle as you
walked past with an arm full of gear do you think you could do it ...
?

They don't fall off, they get pulled off
because they're mis-shapen and now in the way.

Like old Centronics printer / SCSI retainers ... ;-)

All the best ..

T i m

p.s. I was watching a guy fit a suspended platerboard ceiling the
other day and he was using a pair of those stilts that are fashionable
these days.

I noticed he slipped his DeWalt drill / driver into a holster on the
back of his belt when he needed two hands free and I asked him if he
had ever 'missed' the holster and chucked the drill on the floor?

He said "plenty of times but never when there weren't a few people
watching" .. lol