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Default 2 pin shuttered electrical socket belgium
On Thu, 2 Aug 2018 16:35:16 +0100, Clive Arthur
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On 02/08/2018 15:16, wrote:
I am trying to put back a 2 pin plug into a European socket (Belgium). The live and neutral seem to be shuttered and the earth is a round pin that comes out of the socket. I have applied some force to the plug but I can't get the 2 pin plug to go back in to the socket. Is there a knack?

Ta

Clive

I suspect your plug has 4.8mm diameter pins and your socket has 4.0mm
diameter holes. It seems a bit of a mess - I have two very similar
'euro adaptors' in my drawer with different diameter pins. I don't know
why.

I thought the larger pins were UK two pin (BS 4573), rather than
Europlug.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/F...o_Europlug.jpg
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