Changed a few sockets at Handyman Towers last week. The dreaded
stranded cable. What a sod to work with!

One socket was a spur & had three cables. No way would three wires fit
into a terminal - although they had come out of one.

I tried them separately, twisted together, bought an MK socket which had
larger terminals & 'just' managed to get the buggers in properly - after
about 25 mins of swearing.

Yesterday I had to change an electronic time lag switch (like for like),
two 1:0mm cables in each of two terminals. They clearly were not big
enough to accept the cables, although once again, two cables had come out.

So, do electricians have some kind of 'cable shrinking ray'?




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Dave - The Medway Handyman www.medwayhandyman.co.uk