On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 12:12:08 -0000, "Tim Downie"
wrote:


"Don" wrote in message
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...lightbulb.html

It looks as if there's going to be a boom time for the 'Professional
Handymen' then.

Anyone else think that the illustrated plug looks a bit odd? The earth wire
looks thinner than the others and appears to be solid cored. In fact, it
looks like it's been photoshopped in afterwards into a picture of a two core
wired plug. The live & neutral look to be tinned with solder which I
thought was a no-no.

Also it's a long time since I've seen one of those "fibre board" looking
cable clamps.

Of course it's been photoshopped, their biggest mistake is that the
earth core stops short of the brass terminal!

Soldered ends were common on new appliances until they started factory
fitting plugs. The fibreboard clamps are still around, some cheap
plugs in B&Q I saw the other week are like that.

I usually only use MK plugs with the push in plastic cable grip which
for some reason have now gone from their logical all wires trimmed and
stripped to the same length with an offset earth terminal to something
with two wildly differing strip lengths and an earth terminal directly
over the earth pin. I'm not impressed as they now take much longer to
terminate.



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