On Mon, 29 Jul 2013 10:36:08 +0100 (BST)
"Dave Liquorice" wrote:

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?


No! At least, not when I left in late 2010, and there was no talk of
any sleeving then. And plugs don't have fuses, either.

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.

What was the point of the shutter if it didn't kill power to the pins?
--
Davey.