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Other electrical apprentices and my next door neighbour
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On Thursday, 3 October 2019 17:26:41 UTC+1, Another John wrote:
My neighbour did the same trick to his Flymo shortening the cable
somewhat and had made himself a Jesus lead with a plug on each end.
Point of information, yer honour: what's a Jesus lead?
Also known as a widowmaker - a lead with a plug on each end.
Ah - thanks (and also Andy).
Well I *thought* it must be that, but I hadn't made the connection(!!)
I'm getting dopier, as I get on: my brain had envisaged a "plug" as
being the type of 3-pin that goes into the mains socket, which would be
useless, so I had to ask.
I once actually did that, many years ago, when connecting two cables.
Fortunately I realised before I'd even wired up the socket end of the
joint that I'd done it the wrong way round. dumb *******. Last time I
looked, they still don't put a "Danger of Death!" warning on the
plug-end of such a union. (Funny really, in a society where, e.g.,
Starbucks warn you that your coffee cup might be hot!)
When my son got married, and started doing his own DIY, this was the one
thing that I really, forcibly, warned him about. For good measure I
bought him a mains-detecting screwdriver :-)
J.
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