"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
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In article ,
Rob Morley wrote:
Which means that if any of the screws come loose it could break the ring
and you'd never realise it. If you don't cut the cable you can't easily
break the ring.
Properly tightened screws don't just come loose. And if you're drawing
high current off a socket where the screws are loose the cable will soon
become toast anyway - regardless of being continuous.
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Dave Plowman London SW
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I watched a friend try to wire up his recently rewired rooms with just ring
main loops of cable hanging out the boxes (sparky buggered off leaving job
unfinished) he spent ages carefully stripping, folding, bending, more
folding, more bending finally screwing and then couldn't place socket on box
as too much cable to squeeze in !!! So he had to cut out cable, restrip,
twist together, screw into socket, place socket on wall, job done, much much
quicker. This was 16 years ago and his house hasn't burnt down.