On Mon, 01 May 2006 14:23:11 GMT, "Mazz"
wrote:


I'm sure I've seen some old pictures of a woman doing her ironing and the
iron connected the main room light via one of these conectors!!!

My mother used to do that Ca 1951-2.

The assembly of bayonet lampholder, dual adapter, 150 watt bulb
(bare), and bayonet connector for the iron used to swing around like
crazy as she was "Dashing away with a smoothing iron" to the tunes of
"Housewives Choice".

The whole set up was nasty, rubber insulated twisted flex which
hardened and got crumbly, zero or ineffective strain relief whilst the
weight of the whole lot including 2-3 metres of Iron flex hung from a
ceiling rose.

Makes me cringe to think about it.

DG