I have had a multi socket extension lead untouched behind the TV for I
guess 5 to 7 years connected to the TV, DVD, Video and Blue Ray. It was
a cheap unit, bought not off e-bay but from a high street store at the
bottom end of the market. I would never have really expected it to cope
with a 13A fan heater without getting hot but I thought it would be
fine for the use it was going to be put to (and indeed it has been up to
now).

Some tidying up following the final demise of the VHS Video player
forced me to disturb it.

I never expected the failure mode as shown in the linked photo.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/bb3l80251v...23098.jpg?dl=0


For info printed on the bottom was
BLS114
BS1363A
Total load not to exceed 13A

And a sticker which said 20070725 (Which I suspect is the date of
manufacture).
--
Chris B (News)

On 19/09/2016 17:16, Chris B wrote:
I have had a multi socket extension lead untouched behind the TV for I
guess 5 to 7 years connected to the TV, DVD, Video and Blue Ray. It was
a cheap unit, bought not off e-bay but from a high street store at the
bottom end of the market. I would never have really expected it to cope
with a 13A fan heater without getting hot but I thought it would be
fine for the use it was going to be put to (and indeed it has been up to
now).

Some tidying up following the final demise of the VHS Video player
forced me to disturb it.

I never expected the failure mode as shown in the linked photo.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/bb3l80251v...23098.jpg?dl=0


For info printed on the bottom was
BLS114
BS1363A
Total load not to exceed 13A

And a sticker which said 20070725 (Which I suspect is the date of
manufacture).


PS That link doesn't seem to work with my Edge browser but it seems to
work in FF and opera.

--
Chris B (News)

Chris B wrote:

I never expected the failure mode as shown in the linked photo.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/bb3l80251v...23098.jpg?dl=0

Was it in sunlight where it has lived?

PS That link doesn't seem to work with my Edge browser but it seems to
work in FF and opera.

I don't normally use Edge, it does open it ok if rather small, but once
you zoom in the image disappears above a certain size, then re-appears
if you go to full-screen.

On 19/09/2016 17:44, Andy Burns wrote:
Chris B wrote:

I never expected the failure mode as shown in the linked photo.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/bb3l80251v...23098.jpg?dl=0


Was it in sunlight where it has lived?

No. Daylight yes but no direct sunlight.


PS That link doesn't seem to work with my Edge browser but it seems to
work in FF and opera.

I don't normally use Edge, it does open it ok if rather small, but once
you zoom in the image disappears above a certain size, then re-appears
if you go to full-screen.




--
Chris B (News)

On 19/09/2016 17:16, Chris B wrote:
I have had a multi socket extension lead untouched behind the TV for I
guess 5 to 7 years connected to the TV, DVD, Video and Blue Ray. It was
a cheap unit, bought not off e-bay but from a high street store at the
bottom end of the market. I would never have really expected it to cope
with a 13A fan heater without getting hot but I thought it would be
fine for the use it was going to be put to (and indeed it has been up to
now).

Some tidying up following the final demise of the VHS Video player
forced me to disturb it.

I never expected the failure mode as shown in the linked photo.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/bb3l80251v...23098.jpg?dl=0

They are not supposed to fail by brittle fracture like that.

Are you sure it hasn't spent some time with a more aggressive load (like
a kettle or vacuum cleaner) plugged in? I'd be amazed if the load that
home entertainment kit presents could cause trouble unless you have 1kW
loudspeakers or something.


For info printed on the bottom was
BLS114
BS1363A
Total load not to exceed 13A

And a sticker which said 20070725 (Which I suspect is the date of
manufacture).

Could be stress corrosion cracking from exposure to solvents or
sunlight. Or that something very heavy was dropped on it in the past.

It is odd that both the plug and the socket have failed but there is no
evidence of heating of the brass. I have seen seriously abused ones with
discolouration and melting of the casing.

I reckon mechanical damage from a heavy falling object.

--
Regards,
Martin Brown

On 19/09/2016 17:58, Martin Brown wrote:
On 19/09/2016 17:16, Chris B wrote:
I have had a multi socket extension lead untouched behind the TV for I
guess 5 to 7 years connected to the TV, DVD, Video and Blue Ray. It was
a cheap unit, bought not off e-bay but from a high street store at the
bottom end of the market. I would never have really expected it to cope
with a 13A fan heater without getting hot but I thought it would be
fine for the use it was going to be put to (and indeed it has been up to
now).

Some tidying up following the final demise of the VHS Video player
forced me to disturb it.

I never expected the failure mode as shown in the linked photo.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/bb3l80251v...23098.jpg?dl=0

They are not supposed to fail by brittle fracture like that.

Are you sure it hasn't spent some time with a more aggressive load (like
a kettle or vacuum cleaner) plugged in? I'd be amazed if the load that
home entertainment kit presents could cause trouble unless you have 1kW
loudspeakers or something.


For info printed on the bottom was
BLS114
BS1363A
Total load not to exceed 13A

And a sticker which said 20070725 (Which I suspect is the date of
manufacture).

Could be stress corrosion cracking from exposure to solvents or
sunlight. Or that something very heavy was dropped on it in the past.

It is odd that both the plug and the socket have failed but there is no
evidence of heating of the brass. I have seen seriously abused ones with
discolouration and melting of the casing.

I reckon mechanical damage from a heavy falling object.


No definitely not. It has led a very sheltered life on the floor behind
the TV. The plug has been in the wall and the extension on the floor.
It has, as someone else suggested gone brittle in exactly the way you
would expect of a thin supermarket carrier bag exposed to sunlight. It
probably doesn't show up on the photo but there are several other micro
cracks which I suspect would fall apart with very little further
provocation.

--
Chris B (News)

On 19 Sep 2016, Chris B grunted:

On 19/09/2016 17:58, Martin Brown wrote:
On 19/09/2016 17:16, Chris B wrote:
I have had a multi socket extension lead untouched behind the TV for
I guess 5 to 7 years connected to the TV, DVD, Video and Blue Ray.
It was a cheap unit, bought not off e-bay but from a high street
store at the bottom end of the market. I would never have really
expected it to cope with a 13A fan heater without getting hot but I
thought it would be fine for the use it was going to be put to (and
indeed it has been up to now).

Some tidying up following the final demise of the VHS Video player
forced me to disturb it.

I never expected the failure mode as shown in the linked photo.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/bb3l80251v7ivqj/IMG_20160919_
164223098.jpg?
dl=0

They are not supposed to fail by brittle fracture like that.

Are you sure it hasn't spent some time with a more aggressive load
(like a kettle or vacuum cleaner) plugged in? I'd be amazed if the
load that home entertainment kit presents could cause trouble unless
you have 1kW loudspeakers or something.


For info printed on the bottom was
BLS114
BS1363A
Total load not to exceed 13A

And a sticker which said 20070725 (Which I suspect is the date of
manufacture).

Could be stress corrosion cracking from exposure to solvents or
sunlight. Or that something very heavy was dropped on it in the past.

It is odd that both the plug and the socket have failed but there is
no evidence of heating of the brass. I have seen seriously abused
ones with discolouration and melting of the casing.

I reckon mechanical damage from a heavy falling object.


No definitely not.

But it can't be coincidence that the plug top has disintegrated at the
same time? Has to be impact, surely!


--
David

On 19/09/2016 18:50, Lobster wrote:


I reckon mechanical damage from a heavy falling object.


No definitely not.

But it can't be coincidence that the plug top has disintegrated at the
same time? Has to be impact, surely!


You do realise that the plug top is at the end of a 0.5m cable (and was
plugged into the wall). It has only been plugged into the board to make
it more compact to photograph. If it was impact it would surely be the
top of the plug rather than the bottom section.

If it was impact it was during manufacture/distribution and certainly
didn't show up when I installed it.

--
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In message , Chris B
writes
On 19/09/2016 18:50, Lobster wrote:

But it can't be coincidence that the plug top has disintegrated at the
same time? Has to be impact, surely!

You do realise that the plug top is at the end of a 0.5m cable (and was
plugged into the wall). It has only been plugged into the board to
make it more compact to photograph. If it was impact it would surely
be the top of the plug rather than the bottom section.

Ah! You're too subtle for some of us, Chris. I had not realised that
the plug in view was the plug attached to the device.
--
Graeme

On Mon, 19 Sep 2016 19:15:47 +0100, Chris B wrote:

On 19/09/2016 18:50, Lobster wrote:


I reckon mechanical damage from a heavy falling object.


No definitely not.

But it can't be coincidence that the plug top has disintegrated at the
same time? Has to be impact, surely!


You do realise that the plug top is at the end of a 0.5m cable (and was
plugged into the wall). It has only been plugged into the board to make
it more compact to photograph. If it was impact it would surely be the
top of the plug rather than the bottom section.

So you have manipulated the evidence then! When you say a 'high
street store at the bottom end of the market' I take it you mean
Poundland *. I have found some products from that particular outlet
to be complete rubbish and would certainly not buy any safety-critical
item. I prefer to take electrical safety seriously.

* Other pound shops are available.

On Mon, 19 Sep 2016 17:16:07 +0100, Chris B wrote:

snip

Some tidying up following the final demise of the VHS Video player
forced me to disturb it.

I never expected the failure mode as shown in the linked photo.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/bb3l80251v...23098.jpg?dl=0


snip

I wonder if there was something in that area that produced some sort
of fume that affected the plastic like that (the fact that it's done
both components even though separated)?

In (what could be) a similar vein, I recently dug out two pairs of new
'deck shoes' and the soles on all 4 shoes had become so brittle that
they snapped rather than bend. ;-(

I must admit that I would go along with those thinking it could be
sunlight ... if not direct, could it have been reflected?

Cheers, T i m

On 19/09/2016 18:09, Chris B wrote:
On 19/09/2016 17:58, Martin Brown wrote:
On 19/09/2016 17:16, Chris B wrote:
I have had a multi socket extension lead untouched behind the TV for I
guess 5 to 7 years connected to the TV, DVD, Video and Blue Ray. It was
a cheap unit, bought not off e-bay but from a high street store at the
bottom end of the market. I would never have really expected it to cope
with a 13A fan heater without getting hot but I thought it would be
fine for the use it was going to be put to (and indeed it has been up to
now).

Some tidying up following the final demise of the VHS Video player
forced me to disturb it.

I never expected the failure mode as shown in the linked photo.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/bb3l80251v...23098.jpg?dl=0


They are not supposed to fail by brittle fracture like that.

Are you sure it hasn't spent some time with a more aggressive load (like
a kettle or vacuum cleaner) plugged in? I'd be amazed if the load that
home entertainment kit presents could cause trouble unless you have 1kW
loudspeakers or something.


For info printed on the bottom was
BLS114
BS1363A
Total load not to exceed 13A

And a sticker which said 20070725 (Which I suspect is the date of
manufacture).

Could be stress corrosion cracking from exposure to solvents or
sunlight. Or that something very heavy was dropped on it in the past.

It is odd that both the plug and the socket have failed but there is no
evidence of heating of the brass. I have seen seriously abused ones with
discolouration and melting of the casing.

I reckon mechanical damage from a heavy falling object.


No definitely not.

The brass earthing strip looks distorted to me. Mechanical damage was my
first thought.

On Monday, 19 September 2016 20:12:49 UTC+1, Scott wrote:

So you have manipulated the evidence then! When you say a 'high
street store at the bottom end of the market' I take it you mean
Poundland *. I have found some products from that particular outlet
to be complete rubbish and would certainly not buy any safety-critical
item. I prefer to take electrical safety seriously.

* Other pound shops are available.

It certainly looks like the poundland product. Just bad plastic I assume.


NT

On 19/09/2016 20:21, T i m wrote:
On Mon, 19 Sep 2016 17:16:07 +0100, Chris B wrote:

I wonder if there was something in that area that produced some sort
of fume that affected the plastic like that (the fact that it's done
both components even though separated)?


Had a similar issue with all the plastic mouldings in an LCD tv I took a
look at. So brittle they fell apart at the slightest touch - but that
had been installed a little too close to a log burner

On 19/09/16 20:42, Fredxxx wrote:
On 19/09/2016 18:09, Chris B wrote:
On 19/09/2016 17:58, Martin Brown wrote:

I reckon mechanical damage from a heavy falling object.

No definitely not.

The brass earthing strip looks distorted to me. Mechanical damage was my
first thought.

I've seen insides of a few of these things, their brass strips don't
exactly happen to be that straight. These things are after all mass
produced.

Yup, crap cheese grade* plastic that doesn't take kindly to being stressed.

Possible the socket was forced apart by tension of the earth pin against
the plastic due to close clearance, and the plug top either fractured
when withdrawn from it's socket, or killed by an overtightened securing
screw.

* Ice cream carton plastic? Is it possible to do a burn test to identify it?

http://www.boedeker.com/burntest.htm


--
Adrian C

Chris B wrote:
I have had a multi socket extension lead untouched behind the TV for I
guess 5 to 7 years connected to the TV, DVD, Video and Blue Ray. It was
a cheap unit, bought not off e-bay but from a high street store at the
bottom end of the market. I would never have really expected it to cope
with a 13A fan heater without getting hot but I thought it would be
fine for the use it was going to be put to (and indeed it has been up to
now).

Some tidying up following the final demise of the VHS Video player
forced me to disturb it.

I never expected the failure mode as shown in the linked photo.

Had exactly that happen with two recently; both different (and one
similar to yours IIRC) but brittle beyond measure. I wellied both
against the wall and they exploded like glass bottles. They were a few
years old and basically unused.

Crappy chinese plastic.

--
Scott

Where are we going and why am I in this handbasket?

"Martin Brown" wrote in message
...
On 19/09/2016 17:16, Chris B wrote:
I have had a multi socket extension lead untouched behind the TV for I
guess 5 to 7 years connected to the TV, DVD, Video and Blue Ray. It was
a cheap unit, bought not off e-bay but from a high street store at the
bottom end of the market. I would never have really expected it to cope
with a 13A fan heater without getting hot but I thought it would be
fine for the use it was going to be put to (and indeed it has been up to
now).

Some tidying up following the final demise of the VHS Video player
forced me to disturb it.

I never expected the failure mode as shown in the linked photo.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/bb3l80251v...23098.jpg?dl=0

They are not supposed to fail by brittle fracture like that.

Yeah, but it was just bad plastic, I've never had any failures like that.

Are you sure it hasn't spent some time with a more aggressive load (like a
kettle or vacuum cleaner) plugged in?

Some of mine have and still haven't failed like that.

I'd be amazed if the load that home entertainment kit presents could cause
trouble unless you have 1kW loudspeakers or something.

Yeah, nothing to do with the load, its just bad plastic IMO.

For info printed on the bottom was
BLS114
BS1363A
Total load not to exceed 13A

And a sticker which said 20070725 (Which I suspect is the date of
manufacture).

Could be stress corrosion cracking from exposure to solvents or sunlight.
Or that something very heavy was dropped on it in the past.

Much more likely just the wrong plastic used.

It is odd that both the plug and the socket have failed but there is no
evidence of heating of the brass. I have seen seriously abused ones with
discolouration and melting of the casing.

I reckon mechanical damage from a heavy falling object.

Particularly when the plug has failed too.

"Chris B" wrote in message
...
On 19/09/2016 18:50, Lobster wrote:


I reckon mechanical damage from a heavy falling object.


No definitely not.

But it can't be coincidence that the plug top has disintegrated at the
same time? Has to be impact, surely!


You do realise that the plug top is at the end of a 0.5m cable (and was
plugged into the wall). It has only been plugged into the board to make
it more compact to photograph. If it was impact it would surely be the
top of the plug rather than the bottom section.

If it was impact it was during manufacture/distribution and certainly
didn't show up when I installed it.

More evidence that the wrong plastic was used.

En el artículo , Huge
escribió:



?Subject="Win10 sucks donkey dick"

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(")_(")

Not much help to me. However since I cannot see the picture, one assumes its
mechanical in some way. I had one fail recently where the connections to the
live and neutral cannot be sprung back enough to keep good contact to the
plugs.
Thus the slightest wiggle makes it spark or go off on that socket.
Now to me this seems like a design issue, but as you say its far too old
now to expect anybody to sort it. To get the bus bars out and away to do a
respring job would require melting plastic, so its a bin job. also the screw
into the live wire has been done up so tightly its sheared off half the top
of the screw, and so one would need a strong pair of mole grips to get it
out.
Made in England it says... Hmm.
Should have bought Chinese.
Brian

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"Chris B" wrote in message
...
I have had a multi socket extension lead untouched behind the TV for I
guess 5 to 7 years connected to the TV, DVD, Video and Blue Ray. It was a
cheap unit, bought not off e-bay but from a high street store at the bottom
end of the market. I would never have really expected it to cope with a 13A
fan heater without getting hot but I thought it would be fine for the use
it was going to be put to (and indeed it has been up to now).

Some tidying up following the final demise of the VHS Video player forced
me to disturb it.

I never expected the failure mode as shown in the linked photo.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/bb3l80251v...23098.jpg?dl=0


For info printed on the bottom was
BLS114
BS1363A
Total load not to exceed 13A

And a sticker which said 20070725 (Which I suspect is the date of
manufacture).
--
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I hate edge with a passion. Firefox is far more reliable and its a real
shame they hard coded edge into the search in windows 10.
Brian

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On 2016-09-19, Chris B wrote:

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PS That link doesn't seem to work with my Edge browser but it seems to
work in FF and opera.




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On 2016-09-19, Martin Brown wrote:

On 19/09/2016 17:16, Chris B wrote:
I have had a multi socket extension lead untouched behind the TV for I
guess 5 to 7 years connected to the TV, DVD, Video and Blue Ray. It was
a cheap unit, bought not off e-bay but from a high street store at the
bottom end of the market. I would never have really expected it to cope
with a 13A fan heater without getting hot but I thought it would be
fine for the use it was going to be put to (and indeed it has been up to
now).

Some tidying up following the final demise of the VHS Video player
forced me to disturb it.

I never expected the failure mode as shown in the linked photo.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/bb3l80251v...23098.jpg?dl=0

They are not supposed to fail by brittle fracture like that.

Are you sure it hasn't spent some time with a more aggressive load (like
a kettle or vacuum cleaner) plugged in? I'd be amazed if the load that
home entertainment kit presents could cause trouble unless you have 1kW
loudspeakers or something.

SPEAK UP, I CAN'T HEAR ANYTHING!

On 19/09/2016 20:42, Fredxxx wrote:
On 19/09/2016 18:09, Chris B wrote:
On 19/09/2016 17:58, Martin Brown wrote:
On 19/09/2016 17:16, Chris B wrote:
I have had a multi socket extension lead untouched behind the TV for I
guess 5 to 7 years connected to the TV, DVD, Video and Blue Ray. It
was
a cheap unit, bought not off e-bay but from a high street store at the
bottom end of the market. I would never have really expected it to cope
with a 13A fan heater without getting hot but I thought it would be
fine for the use it was going to be put to (and indeed it has been
up to
now).

Some tidying up following the final demise of the VHS Video player
forced me to disturb it.

I never expected the failure mode as shown in the linked photo.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/bb3l80251v...23098.jpg?dl=0



They are not supposed to fail by brittle fracture like that.

Are you sure it hasn't spent some time with a more aggressive load (like
a kettle or vacuum cleaner) plugged in? I'd be amazed if the load that
home entertainment kit presents could cause trouble unless you have 1kW
loudspeakers or something.


For info printed on the bottom was
BLS114
BS1363A
Total load not to exceed 13A

And a sticker which said 20070725 (Which I suspect is the date of
manufacture).

Could be stress corrosion cracking from exposure to solvents or
sunlight. Or that something very heavy was dropped on it in the past.

It is odd that both the plug and the socket have failed but there is no
evidence of heating of the brass. I have seen seriously abused ones with
discolouration and melting of the casing.

I reckon mechanical damage from a heavy falling object.


No definitely not.

The brass earthing strip looks distorted to me. Mechanical damage was my
first thought.

A plug worked loose from the second socket such that only the earth pin
was in. Someone pulled on the cable. The main plug broke at the same
time as the cable was pulled.

Viola! A large fiddle.

Cheers
--
Syd

On 20/09/16 09:45, Syd Rumpo wrote:
Viola! A large fiddle.

I thought it was a flower.


--
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as
foolish, and by the rulers as useful.

(Seneca the Younger, 65 AD)

pamela wrote:

Two separate plastic parts failing spontaneously seems a bit
unlikely.

As they're both part of the same item, it's likely they're both made of
the same cheap/nasty plastic which has gone brittle for whatever reason.

pamela wrote:

Have you observed even a single failure like the photo which happened
without any cause in all the years and all the trailing sockets you
have come across? I haven't.

Not on trailing sockets no, but I have experienced other hard plastic
objects going "crumbly" even when they've been kept out of the light.

On Monday, 19 September 2016 17:16:15 UTC+1, Chris B wrote:
I have had a multi socket extension lead untouched behind the TV for I
guess 5 to 7 years connected to the TV, DVD, Video and Blue Ray. It was
a cheap unit, bought not off e-bay but from a high street store at the
bottom end of the market. I would never have really expected it to cope
with a 13A fan heater without getting hot but I thought it would be
fine for the use it was going to be put to (and indeed it has been up to
now).

Some tidying up following the final demise of the VHS Video player
forced me to disturb it.

I never expected the failure mode as shown in the linked photo.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/bb3l80251v...23098.jpg?dl=0


For info printed on the bottom was
BLS114
BS1363A
Total load not to exceed 13A

And a sticker which said 20070725 (Which I suspect is the date of
manufacture).
--
Chris B (News)

I would say that is a manufacturing defect.
Something wrong with the plastic.

I have never seen a plug fail like that in forty years.
The old bakelite plugs might have failed that way but only with a very hard blow.

On 20/09/2016 16:53, pamela wrote:
On 15:33 20 Sep 2016, Andy Burns wrote:

pamela wrote:

Have you observed even a single failure like the photo which
happened without any cause in all the years and all the
trailing sockets you have come across? I haven't.

Not on trailing sockets no, but I have experienced other hard
plastic objects going "crumbly" even when they've been kept out
of the light.

I've seen crumbling although usually on biodegradable plastic but
the photo shows sharp edges which look like shattering.

I would guess injection moulded plastic wouldn't be under any
stresses other than if it is force fitted and I'm assuming that
would show itself by deformed bends even after the pressure is
released.

My vote still goes for a common impact on the plug and the
sockets.

Well if anyone is still interested I have applied finger pressure to the
remains of the socket.

There is a short (60sec) video of the dismantling process using nothing
more than finger pressure, whilst one hand holds the camera....

https://www.dropbox.com/s/dq2w6z5r4m...14353.mp4?dl=0


I can assure you that there has been no impact

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Chris B (News)

On 20/09/16 18:41, Chris B wrote:

There is a short (60sec) video of the dismantling process using nothing
more than finger pressure, whilst one hand holds the camera....

https://www.dropbox.com/s/dq2w6z5r4m...14353.mp4?dl=0


I can assure you that there has been no impact


Name the shop! Have the manager tarred and feathered!

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Adrian C

On Tue, 20 Sep 2016 18:41:39 +0100, Chris B wrote:

On 20/09/2016 16:53, pamela wrote:
On 15:33 20 Sep 2016, Andy Burns wrote:

pamela wrote:

Have you observed even a single failure like the photo which
happened without any cause in all the years and all the
trailing sockets you have come across? I haven't.

Not on trailing sockets no, but I have experienced other hard
plastic objects going "crumbly" even when they've been kept out
of the light.

I've seen crumbling although usually on biodegradable plastic but
the photo shows sharp edges which look like shattering.

I would guess injection moulded plastic wouldn't be under any
stresses other than if it is force fitted and I'm assuming that
would show itself by deformed bends even after the pressure is
released.

My vote still goes for a common impact on the plug and the
sockets.

Well if anyone is still interested I have applied finger pressure to the
remains of the socket.

There is a short (60sec) video of the dismantling process using nothing
more than finger pressure, whilst one hand holds the camera....

https://www.dropbox.com/s/dq2w6z5r4m...14353.mp4?dl=0


I can assure you that there has been no impact

You've already manipulated the evidence once :-)

Did you put it into the freezer for two hours first?

"pamela" wrote in message
...
On 14:20 20 Sep 2016, Andy Burns wrote:

pamela wrote:

Two separate plastic parts failing spontaneously seems a bit
unlikely.

As they're both part of the same item, it's likely they're both
made of the same cheap/nasty plastic which has gone brittle for
whatever reason.

In my experience, the plastic used on a plug is different to the
plastic used on the socket strip.

Even if they're the same plastic, the chance of both failing,
spontaneously without impact, seems very small.

They didn’t necessarily both fail simultaneously with it
hidden down the back of the media stack for years.

Have you observed even a single failure like the photo
which happened without any cause in all the years and
all the trailing sockets you have come across? I haven't.

I haven't either, but I haven't necessarily
bought any with that **** plastic used.

While I haven't had any failures like that with plug boards,
what you lot call trailing sockets, I have with plastic boxes.

There was time when I got lots of
those very similar 4-way 0.5m sockets for a pound from the discount
shop and none of mine have ever spontaneously shattered.

Neither have any of mine, but that doesn’t mean that some
weren't made with the wrong plastic that doesn’t last long.

"Chris B" wrote in message
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On 20/09/2016 16:53, pamela wrote:
On 15:33 20 Sep 2016, Andy Burns wrote:

pamela wrote:

Have you observed even a single failure like the photo which
happened without any cause in all the years and all the
trailing sockets you have come across? I haven't.

Not on trailing sockets no, but I have experienced other hard
plastic objects going "crumbly" even when they've been kept out
of the light.

I've seen crumbling although usually on biodegradable plastic but
the photo shows sharp edges which look like shattering.

I would guess injection moulded plastic wouldn't be under any
stresses other than if it is force fitted and I'm assuming that
would show itself by deformed bends even after the pressure is
released.

My vote still goes for a common impact on the plug and the
sockets.

Well if anyone is still interested I have applied finger pressure to the
remains of the socket.

There is a short (60sec) video of the dismantling process using nothing
more than finger pressure, whilst one hand holds the camera....

https://www.dropbox.com/s/dq2w6z5r4m...14353.mp4?dl=0


I can assure you that there has been no impact

Yeah, its clearly hopeless inadequate plastic.

It would be interesting to know if it was
always that bad but no way to know that now.

replying to Chris B, John Dalton wrote:
I have experienced the same. I found your post by googling "BLS114 socket".
The one I have crumbles under fairly light thumb pressure on the top (socket
entry) surface, the base moulding still seems strong. Never been in sunlight,
but there's slight yellowing of the plastic top except the areas that were
under the plugs

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replying to Chris B, John Dalton wrote:
try https://www.dropbox.com/s/bb3l80251v..._164223098.jpg


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replying to pamela, John Dalton wrote:
I've just had exactly the same experience with a BLS114 socket strip as
pictured. My plug's OK but the top moulding of the socket strip crumbles under
light thumb pressure. Really hazardous.

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Unfortunately, many of these sockets seem to be made out of, well, cheap
crap.
I guess they work for a while, but it is obviously false economy if they
self destruct after a few years.
What worries me is how many of these dodgy things are lying in some
warehouse somewhere gently aging and will be sold on with very little life
left. I do not suppose anyone has the knowledge to tell the plastics aging
either.
Brian

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replying to pamela, John Dalton wrote:
I've just had exactly the same experience with a BLS114 socket strip as
pictured. My plug's OK but the top moulding of the socket strip crumbles
under
light thumb pressure. Really hazardous.

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"Brian Gaff" wrote in message
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Unfortunately, many of these sockets seem to be made out of, well, cheap
crap.
I guess they work for a while, but it is obviously false economy if they
self destruct after a few years.
What worries me is how many of these dodgy things are lying in some
warehouse somewhere gently aging and will be sold on with very little
life left.

Unlikely now that few keep stuff in warehouses for long.

I do not suppose anyone has the knowledge to tell the plastics aging
either.

Not hard to see if its still viable.

"John Dalton" m wrote
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replying to pamela, John Dalton wrote:
I've just had exactly the same experience with a BLS114 socket strip as
pictured. My plug's OK but the top moulding of the socket strip crumbles
under
light thumb pressure. Really hazardous.

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On Wed, 24 Oct 2018 19:14:27 +1100, cantankerous trolling senile geezer Rot
Speed blabbered, again:


What worries me is how many of these dodgy things are lying in some
warehouse somewhere gently aging and will be sold on with very little
life left.

Unlikely now that few keep stuff in warehouses for long.

Did "with very little life left" remind you of something, you 85-year-old
senile cretin? GOOD! LOL

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replying to John Dalton, rde42 wrote:
You are replying to a message that is over two years old.

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