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Default Dangerous copper clad aluminium stranded flex warning

In article ,
Andrew wrote:
On 05/11/2018 14:04, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
Tim Watts wrote:
http://www.aci.org.uk/news/aci-warns...-flexible-cord


Turkey again - haven't forgiven them for the dodgy T+E debacle (I
escaped but not until some panic - I had used a lot of cable from a
maker with a not dissimilar name).


QA seems to be somewhat wanting over there.


And we'll soon be able to import such crap nice and easily once free of
those dreadful EU regs.


We did have BSI standards before everything was changed to
ENnnnnn CE marking, which were frequently the same thing.


we still have British Standards but, yes, the may have an EN number as well.

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