Hi All,

I needed to use my wallpaper stripper / steamer the other day and
found the power lead was missing? ;-(

A quick drive round all the likely places turned up nothing so I
bought a new steamer sigh.

I still need to replace the missing lead but find eBay / the net
littered with what they describe as 'Kettle Leads' that wouldn't fit
*my* kettle (well it boils water g) and if they did they would
probably melt because they are generally 'cold plugs' (the difference
being the 'hot' 'kettle plugs' generally (always?) have a notch
between two of the pins so you can't use a cold (PC) type plug in them
by mistake).

I did think about buying a cheapo kettle just for the lead (I could
put the kettle in my decorating box for brewups g) cbut they are all
hard wired or on power bases these days?

1) Is there a common 'high street' place where I might pick one up
please?

2) How did the missuse of the term 'Kettle lead' come about? (when I
first saw both I realised there was a difference and guessed for a
good reason)?

Or maybe you can get 'hot', non notched plugs?

All the best ..

T i m