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Default 2 socket, 3 socket, 4 socket 13A outlets

Yes I found out about the older skeletal and muscular issues when I had to
fit some new hinges to a cupboard door for under the sink a few years ago.
Why is it that the attachments for things when flatpack cupboards are
built, end up in the least easy to get at places with the most awkward body
position to screw screws in from?
Brian

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Hi Pop Pickers!

I was just looking for process on 13A MK Logic double sockets* (so much
cheaper at Toolstation than a traditional electrical wholesalers (Kew
Electrical) quoted me for 3 (approx. £3.80 Ea rather than approx. £7.00 Ea!


And I was surprised to come across an MK 3 socket faceplate (which looked
like it was designed for an extra wide back box / pattress rather than retro
fitting to an existing double. I've never seen these in service, and would
think most people in most circs would simply fit 2 x 2 ways. There was also
also a wide variety of converters 1-3, 2-3, 2-4. Do the Pros ever have
cause to resort to these? or again, would they always use doubles?

*I finally got a round tuit and sorted out the re-routing of part of my
kitchen ring through the "sink unit" picking up te dishwasher and washing
machine along the way (the previous situation was not as rosy as I had
painted it here, the Wm and DW were sharing one 2.5mm spur).

Very pleased with the result electrically, but it's not the tidiest job I
ever did. I need to re-visit at some point and reduce / eliminate the
amount of JBs I put in. I must have saved a couple of hundred in
electricians fees, but might wind up spending it on a chiropractor!
(apparently I am no longer 18, Immortal , made of rubber!

Anyway's I have now replaced one of the double 13A sockets that feed this
section of ring with a nice shiny MK Logic one, and want to do the rest of
the kitchen in stages (for budgetary reasons).