On Wednesday, 4 September 2019 12:31:15 UTC+1, dennis@home wrote:
On 04/09/2019 08:26, harry wrote:
On Wednesday, 4 September 2019 08:19:19 UTC+1, wrote:
On Tuesday, 3 September 2019 18:37:58 UTC+1, harry wrote:

A lot of our standards were subsumed by inferior EC standards.
Eg fridges that catch fire.

So what was the previous standard and how did it change to make fridges
more combustible?

Our previous (BS) standard had all metal cabinets and mineral wool insulation.


Do you want to provide a reference to prove that?

They were made of cheap pressed steel because the machine tools to make
them out of plastic weren't about.

As soon as they were manufacturers chose the cheaper option as did
consumers.

Ah, lemme see. Soft sheet plastics have been with us since at least the 60s, along with the stamping machines to cut them to shape en masse. Yet the move from metal backs to plastic happened when?


NT