Rod wrote:


I have just fitted some GET sockets (from TLC) and these have had the
firmest, most confidence-inspiring screws/wire clamping I have used.
Excellent.

MK plugs - pricey as they are - are a pleasure to wire up; form a loop
in the bared flex just large enough to slip over the brass stud (folded
in a clockwise-downwards spiral, of course, for compatibility with the
stud thread ;-) and screw down the bolts-with-captive-washers till
they're nice and snug.

For terminal blocks, rising-clamp construction like the Zeta pieces are
several notches up from the cheapies; inbetween are chocblox which have
a leaf between the screw and the wire.

Habits vary - as we've discussed here - on 'prejoining' conductors
before securing them. Pros frown on twisting together conductors going
into the 'tunnels' of a socket, as 'when' you do a full-bore period
inspection you'd have to untwist, inducing fatigue. Back in the real
world of domestic installs, where sockets are fit-n-forget and go
undisturbed from one decade to the next, light pretwisting strikes me as
worth doing...

No-name junction boxes, OTOH, are often devilspawn; my most common
failure experience with these is the plastick base moulding giving way
if you apply a realistic torque to the screw...

Stefek