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On 12/11/2018 16:21, Sam E wrote:
On 11/11/18 6:35 PM, Rod Speed wrote:

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Most things were invented in Scotland.

BULL****. The steam engine wasn't, cars weren't,
computers weren't, aircraft weren't, trains weren't.

Somewhere I remember someone claiming that everything was
invented
in
Russia.

China surely...

Japan invents,

Japan has invented **** all.

China makes stuff that falls apart in 2 days.

My iphones havent.

Perhaps just using their workers is ok, and it's their
designers
that
are
incompetant.

Nope, plenty of what they have designed works fine.

Try going to Ebay and buying some electronics from there.

Been there, done that, plenty of it works fine as you can see
from
Big
Clive's teardowns.

Now buy a Chinese £1.99 battery charger. After the tenth use it
will
crumble as you pull it out of the socket.

None of mine have.

Buy this one, that's the one I have:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/192110897208

More fool you.

You told me you buy similar cheap ****.

Mine havent split, lit alone crumble after the
tenth use as you pull it out of the socket.

Probably depends on the socket,

Nope, I have in fact had a hell of a problem
finding adapters that grip the US pins solidly.
It hasn't taken much for whatever it is to move
out of the adapter and need to be inserted again.

I have just recently found a plug board that will
take any of the common pugs and that does
grip the pins solidly, so should fix that problem.
https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/112101146354

That's expensive,

Yep but the best universal one I could find.

Not ideal, the sockets are too close together
for some of the biggest wall warts and I prefer
a single row of sockets too, so you don't lose
the use of one socket in the other row with
some of the things like your charger. And it
would be better if the sockets in each row
faced in opposite directions if there are
two rows for the same reason.

I have a double wall outlet (a normal UK one) which annoys me in the same
way. If I put one of those cube shaped triple adapters in one of them (or
anything else quite bulky like a wall wart), it pushes on the switch and
turns it off, so I end up having to have it hanging out slightly.

What amuses me is an adaptor I bought which has the male side with two
pins, intended for travelling through Europe, and the female side is UK.
It says on it that I must not use it in the UK. I do, it's very handy
to
plug a 3 pin UK plug into my shaver socket.

I'd have you publicly flogged if you hadn't
so obviously enjoyed that the last time.

For doing what? Disobeying a safety instruction?

mine is plugged into a universal adaptor (as the charger has a yank
plug).
One of the adapters permanently on my desk sockets (as I have quite a
few
cheap **** foreign devices) is quite stiff.

All but one of mine are the reverse, not stiff enough.

Same here, although since the things I plug in are either very light
small
chargers, or a flimsy little US style ****ty plastic plug, they don't
need
to hold tight.

Yes they do, because otherwise you have to check
that it hasn't moved up out of the socket a bit when
you use the charger. I leave mine plugged in all the
time and just plug the cord into what needs charging.

All my chargers have their own mains plugs and the battery goes inside the
charger. I assume you're talking about something that charges a seperate
battery via a lead?

Charges a device like a phone or tablet or hair trimmer etc that way.

You don't need to check those, as the phone will indicate it's charging when you connect it.

You could always open the adaptor and squeeze the contacts together a bit.