"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
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: In article ,
: David Looser wrote:
: For the last 20 years I have PAT tested every mains
electrical item
: submitted to a charity auction that is held twice a year in
the village
: where I live. In that time I met a fair few horrors: flexes
so damaged
: that the bare live wire shows through, a standard lamp (with
a brass
: fitting) wired up with two-core bell-wire, flexes extended
using a bit
: of choc-block wrapped in insulating tape, broken plugs,
mis-wired
: plugs, plugs with the cord-grip either missing or incorrectly
used etc.
: But I've only ever had one example of a plug with anything
other than a
: BS1362 fuse in it, and that had a few turns of 5A fuse-wire
wrapped
: round the prongs of the fuse-holder. So I don't buy this idea
that
: people are putting screws, bolts or bits of metal rod into
plugs in any
: significant numbers at all. Its *so* much easier to nick a
fuse from
: another appliance than to start looking for bits of metal
that will fit!
:
: Indeed. As I said, how many homes will have a plug in appliance
that draws
: more than 13 amps so needs the fuse shorted out?

Nothing what so ever to do with an appliance needing more than
13amps, that is something you introduced in an attempt to troll,
it's everything to do with the appliance fuse blowing at 5pm on a
Sunday and there being no replacement - husband is being screamed
at by SWMBO because she wants to get the washing, hovering or
what ever done so hubby goes off in search of something - of
course those with common sense will rob Peter to pay Paul.

If such problems didn't occur why the need for 17th edition or
PAT testing (or at least certain elements)?... But hang on, as
the Champaign socialist Dave is, he probably think such regs are
in place as some form of job creation exercise, but then wasn't
that part of the thinking by "Two Jags" when he headed up the
introduction of the needless Part P to the UK building regs?...