On Mon, 29 Jul 2013 10:00:30 +0100, Davey wrote:

When I lived in the US, I looked for the official way of mounting their
sockets, and it turned out to be the illogical 'ground pin on the
bottom', so that anything dropping onto a slightly unplugged plug would
automatically short out the two power pins.

The power pins aren't sleeved for the 1/4" or so adjacent to the plug
body?

And with no shutter mechanism, these pins would still be live.

Even with the shutter the pins are still live but UK plugs should now
have sleeved pins.

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Cheers
Dave.