We keep a 2nd fridge and freezer out in the garage, as 'overflow'
capacity for the kitchen. Both are plugged in to the same double socket.

A few weeks ago, the fridge suddenly failed totally. I checked
everything I could - fuse in the plug was OK; power was obviously OK as
the freezer was still working. Bummer. It was reasonably old so
decided it had just given up the ghost.

As it happened, I had planned on taking it down to the council tip
tomorrow. However... this afternoon I was giving the car a cleanout -
something I haven't done in about 2 years - and plugged the hoover into
the now-empty socket in the garage. And guess what - the hoover didn't
work! One of the twin sockets had simply failed, and of course the
fridge was perfectly OK. Knowing my usual luck, it wouldn't normally
have been until I'd dumped the old fridge and bought a new one, and
finding out that didn't work either, that I'd have sussed. So eat your
heart out, Victor.

(Weird failure actually. Presumably it must have been a knackered
switchcontact? - but the switch was never used at all, and certainly
hadn't been recently. Didn't 'feel' at all dodgy either. After swapping
the socket I did (natch) try dismantling the old one for a shufti, but
all the bits just dropped out as the cover came off, so no idea!)

David

"Lobster" wrote in message
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We keep a 2nd fridge and freezer out in the garage, as 'overflow'
capacity for the kitchen. Both are plugged in to the same double socket.

A few weeks ago, the fridge suddenly failed totally. I checked
everything I could - fuse in the plug was OK; power was obviously OK as
the freezer was still working. Bummer. It was reasonably old so
decided it had just given up the ghost.

As it happened, I had planned on taking it down to the council tip
tomorrow. However... this afternoon I was giving the car a cleanout -
something I haven't done in about 2 years - and plugged the hoover into
the now-empty socket in the garage. And guess what - the hoover didn't
work! One of the twin sockets had simply failed, and of course the
fridge was perfectly OK. Knowing my usual luck, it wouldn't normally
have been until I'd dumped the old fridge and bought a new one, and
finding out that didn't work either, that I'd have sussed. So eat your
heart out, Victor.

(Weird failure actually. Presumably it must have been a knackered
switchcontact? - but the switch was never used at all, and certainly
hadn't been recently. Didn't 'feel' at all dodgy either. After swapping
the socket I did (natch) try dismantling the old one for a shufti, but all
the bits just dropped out as the cover came off, so no idea!)

David

It's a plot ...

I don't believe it.

"Lobster" wrote in message
...
We keep a 2nd fridge and freezer out in the garage, as 'overflow'
capacity for the kitchen. Both are plugged in to the same double socket.

A few weeks ago, the fridge suddenly failed totally. I checked
everything I could - fuse in the plug was OK; power was obviously OK as
the freezer was still working. Bummer. It was reasonably old so
decided it had just given up the ghost.

As it happened, I had planned on taking it down to the council tip
tomorrow. However... this afternoon I was giving the car a cleanout -
something I haven't done in about 2 years - and plugged the hoover into
the now-empty socket in the garage. And guess what - the hoover didn't
work! One of the twin sockets had simply failed, and of course the
fridge was perfectly OK. Knowing my usual luck, it wouldn't normally
have been until I'd dumped the old fridge and bought a new one, and
finding out that didn't work either, that I'd have sussed. So eat your
heart out, Victor.

(Weird failure actually. Presumably it must have been a knackered
switchcontact? - but the switch was never used at all, and certainly
hadn't been recently. Didn't 'feel' at all dodgy either. After swapping
the socket I did (natch) try dismantling the old one for a shufti, but all
the bits just dropped out as the cover came off, so no idea!)

David




some years ago we awaited an engineer to come to do a routine maintenance on
a piece of equipment we had at work.
He arrived stressed out of his mind 2 hours late. He decided to 'just put
up that mirror' before bedtime the previous evening in order to silence his
nearest and dearest. Sadly, just as he was drilling the hole all the lights
and power in the house fused. He started digging a huge hole in the wall to
locate the cable he'd just hit but couldn't see it by candlelight.
Following morning - woke up to find all lights on. Power cut!!
Phil

In message , Phil B
writes
and power in the house fused. He started digging a huge hole in the wall to
locate the cable he'd just hit but couldn't see it by candlelight.
Following morning - woke up to find all lights on. Power cut!!
Phil


My neighbour had a vaguely related situation.
There was a power cut and a while later while the power was still off he
came and asked for my help finding which of his fuses had blown, I told
him of the power cut and he said "but your lights are still on!"
The wonders of having fitted emergency light units when the house was
rewired a few years ago.



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Bill

On 17 Mar, 18:03, Lobster wrote:
We keep a 2nd fridge and freezer out in the garage, as 'overflow'
capacity for the kitchen. Both are plugged in to the same double socket.

A few weeks ago, the fridge suddenly failed totally. I checked
everything I could - fuse in the plug was OK; power was obviously OK as
the freezer was still working. Bummer. It was reasonably old so
decided it had just given up the ghost.

As it happened, I had planned on taking it down to the council tip
tomorrow. However... this afternoon I was giving the car a cleanout -
something I haven't done in about 2 years - and plugged the hoover into
the now-empty socket in the garage. And guess what - the hoover didn't
work! One of the twin sockets had simply failed, and of course the
fridge was perfectly OK. Knowing my usual luck, it wouldn't normally
have been until I'd dumped the old fridge and bought a new one, and
finding out that didn't work either, that I'd have sussed. So eat your
heart out, Victor.

(Weird failure actually. Presumably it must have been a knackered
switchcontact? - but the switch was never used at all, and certainly
hadn't been recently. Didn't 'feel' at all dodgy either.

A while back Screwfix were selling double sockets for just over a
pound a piece. Foolishly I mistook cheapness for good value and fitted
them all over my house. I reckon at least half have since failed int
he way you describe. All slowly being replaced with Crabtree ones...

Jon.

Tournifreak wrote:
On 17 Mar, 18:03, Lobster wrote:
We keep a 2nd fridge and freezer out in the garage, as 'overflow'
capacity for the kitchen. Both are plugged in to the same double socket.

A few weeks ago, the fridge suddenly failed totally. I checked
everything I could - fuse in the plug was OK; power was obviously OK as
the freezer was still working. Bummer. It was reasonably old so
decided it had just given up the ghost.

As it happened, I had planned on taking it down to the council tip
tomorrow. However... this afternoon I was giving the car a cleanout -
something I haven't done in about 2 years - and plugged the hoover into
the now-empty socket in the garage. And guess what - the hoover didn't
work! One of the twin sockets had simply failed, and of course the
fridge was perfectly OK. Knowing my usual luck, it wouldn't normally
have been until I'd dumped the old fridge and bought a new one, and
finding out that didn't work either, that I'd have sussed. So eat your
heart out, Victor.

(Weird failure actually. Presumably it must have been a knackered
switchcontact? - but the switch was never used at all, and certainly
hadn't been recently. Didn't 'feel' at all dodgy either.

A while back Screwfix were selling double sockets for just over a
pound a piece. Foolishly I mistook cheapness for good value and fitted
them all over my house. I reckon at least half have since failed int
he way you describe. All slowly being replaced with Crabtree ones...

Whaddyaknow - guess where that particular socket came from! (And
funnily enough, I replaced mine with a Crabtree too).

David