On 26/10/2016 17:38, pamela wrote:
On 17:32 26 Oct 2016, Lobster wrote:

On 26 Oct 2016, Handsome Jack grunted:

"Dave Plowman (News)" posted
In article ,
Handsome Jack wrote:

else could I possibly do? What is the point of moulded plugs
when one usually has to cut them off and replace them?

Absolutely fine if you've fitted the new plug correctly.

Is that really so difficult? Uneducated people, some even
Brexit-voters, have been doing it for decades without too many
problems.

That's debatable, to say the least. The vast majority of
electrical fires are down to appliances rather than fixed
wiring, and you can bet that historically a huge number of those
are attributable to dodgy plugs.

Quite apart from loose screws, shorts, severed strands of wire,
missing cable clamps, interchanged L/N wires etc, how many
average members of the public ever used to change the 13A fuse
which was supplied in their newly purchased plug to match the
appliance they bought it for?

Isn't the rating of the fuse chosen to protect the lead?

http://www.theiet.org/forums/forum/m....cfm?catid=205
&threadid=16463

Yes, strictly, but the appliance will have a cable sized for its current
draw.