On Thu, 31 Jul 2008 14:59:32 +1200, Brian Sandle
wrote:

An old Hitachi electric drill as part of a set with many attachments had
a wrongly wired plug.

This is in New Zealand where the phase is the slanting pin socket on the
left. The sealed Hitachi plug attached to this faulty drill had the red
wire connected to the right hand pin as it is pushed in.

(Fault was less than tight brush scews)


That's good, thanks for telling the whole world.