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On Wed, 26 Oct 2016 23:52:02 +0100, pamela wrote:

On 21:52 26 Oct 2016, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:

On Wed, 26 Oct 2016 21:25:49 +0100, Mr Pounder Esquire
wrote:

David Lang wrote:
On 26/10/2016 17:22, Simon Mason wrote:
On Wednesday, 26 October 2016 09:29:44 UTC+1, Rod Speed
wrote: Its actually because they are much more reliable when
moulded.

I have just fitted 4 LED security lamps and needed to feed
2 core through a brick wall - I have 20 odd old wire up
plugs though so had plenty to hand.

I do it the other way, cut the moulded socket off an
extension lead, feed the cut end thru the hole in the wall
and then wire that into the light or whatever. Easier with
some lights than others.

These lights only come with about 1ft of three way, so you
have to drill a foot long hole in the exterior bricks and
feed two core in from inside, fit a plug and find the nearest
indoor socket.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CvtPqEOXYAEybSS.jpg

So you now have an exposed chocky block outside in the wet and
a metal light with no earth?

You are a special kind of stupid.

He is a cyclist. They really are a very special kind of stupid.


Or not a wimp like you two, scared of a bit of electricity.

All that will happen in the rain is a bit of electric will leak
from live to neutral and cost him pennies.


What if it's more than a little bit of leakage (maybe from
something like bird droppings)?


I assume salty or something? Well it'll evaporate it or blow the fuse.

What do you think he's going to do, reach up and grab the block
in the rain?




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