On Tuesday, 18 August 2020 16:30:36 UTC+1, No Name wrote:
On 18/08/2020 16:07, John Rumm wrote:
On 18/08/2020 13:46, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

But the idea of using lots of different fuses for plug tops is downright
stupid too - unless it was impossible to fit the wrong one. Human nature
being as it is.

That fact that stuff comes with a pre-fitted plug these days, has lead
to a generation that now no longer know how to fit one, and in many
cases probably probably don't even know what a fuse looks like.



I am old enough to remember wire colours before blue for neutral, brown
for live and green/yellow for earth became commonplace...

it was red for live, black for neutral and green for earth.....

:-)

and I remember people sticking the green wire into the fuseholder in the plug. Yep, colourblind.