I am trying to put back a 2 pin plug into a European socket (Belgium). The live and neutral seem to be shuttered and the earth is a round pin that comes out of the socket. I have applied some force to the plug but I can't get the 2 pin plug to go back in to the socket. Is there a knack?

Ta

Clive

On 02/08/2018 15:16, wrote:
I am trying to put back a 2 pin plug into a European socket (Belgium). The live and neutral seem to be shuttered and the earth is a round pin that comes out of the socket. I have applied some force to the plug but I can't get the 2 pin plug to go back in to the socket. Is there a knack?

Ta

Clive

I suspect your plug has 4.8mm diameter pins and your socket has 4.0mm
diameter holes. It seems a bit of a mess - I have two very similar
'euro adaptors' in my drawer with different diameter pins. I don't know
why.

Cheers
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Clive

On Thu, 2 Aug 2018 16:35:16 +0100, Clive Arthur
wrote:

On 02/08/2018 15:16, wrote:
I am trying to put back a 2 pin plug into a European socket (Belgium). The live and neutral seem to be shuttered and the earth is a round pin that comes out of the socket. I have applied some force to the plug but I can't get the 2 pin plug to go back in to the socket. Is there a knack?

Ta

Clive

I suspect your plug has 4.8mm diameter pins and your socket has 4.0mm
diameter holes. It seems a bit of a mess - I have two very similar
'euro adaptors' in my drawer with different diameter pins. I don't know
why.

I thought the larger pins were UK two pin (BS 4573), rather than
Europlug.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/F...o_Europlug.jpg

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I am trying to put back a 2 pin plug into a European socket (Belgium). The live and neutral seem to be shuttered and the earth is a round pin that comes out of the socket. I have applied some force to the plug but I can't get the 2 pin plug to go back in to the socket. Is there a knack?

Ta

Clive

Is this a Europlug or the traditional French CEE 7/6 2-pin
plug?

https://www.dropbox.com/s/86pa1uqige69ci2/CEE%207-6%
20plug.png?dl=0

or https://tinyurl.com/Euro-CEE-7-6

Black Europlug on the left will fit - just apply pressure so
that pins open the socket shutters.

Traditional white French CEE 7/6 2-pin plug on the right will
NOT fit French earthed sockets with the protruding earth pin
because there is no way for the pin to enter the plug: thus
the plug cannot enter the socket.

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wrote:
I am trying to put back a 2 pin plug into a European socket (Belgium).
The live and neutral seem to be shuttered and the earth is a round pin
that comes out of the socket. I have applied some force to the plug but
I can't get the 2 pin plug to go back in to the socket. Is there a knack?


You have checked that you have the plug the right way up so the earth
pin has a hole to go into in the plug?

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Chris Green
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I suspect your plug has 4.8mm diameter pins and your socket has 4.0mm
diameter holes. It seems a bit of a mess - I have two very similar
'euro adaptors' in my drawer with different diameter pins. I don't
know why.

Cheers

One is a UK Shaver adaptor?

In article ,
says...


I suspect your plug has 4.8mm diameter pins and your socket has 4.0mm
diameter holes. It seems a bit of a mess - I have two very similar
'euro adaptors' in my drawer with different diameter pins. I don't know
why.


Any standard 16A european socket should accomodate 4.8mm
diameter pins.

Only the special slim-line 2-pin socket designed solely to
accept the 2.5A Europlug will have smaller holes.

If you have connectors with different pins, note the spacing
should alter so the the extreme outside edge spacing of both
pins is the same.

If you look at the thin pin adaptors you have, you will almost
certainly find that those with thinner pins are rated at 6A
max whilst those with 4.8mm pins will be rated at 10A (but
could be 13A, if designed with decent contacts).

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On 03/08/2018 13:56, Terry Casey wrote:
In article ,
says...


I suspect your plug has 4.8mm diameter pins and your socket has 4.0mm
diameter holes. It seems a bit of a mess - I have two very similar
'euro adaptors' in my drawer with different diameter pins. I don't know
why.


snipped

Any standard 16A european socket should accomodate 4.8mm
diameter pins.

Should. I'm sure that's true, but sometimes these fiendish Europeans
don't adhere to someone else's standards.


Cheers
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Clive

In article ,
says...

On 03/08/2018 13:56, Terry Casey wrote:

Any standard 16A european socket should accomodate 4.8mm
diameter pins.

Should. I'm sure that's true, but sometimes these fiendish Europeans
don't adhere to someone else's standards.

Who is the 'someone else' to whom you refer?

Who on earth are you suggesting wrote the European standards
if it wasn't the Europeans?

I'm trying to visualise the situation where folk all over
Europe are buying new products fitted with the European
standard moulded CEE 7/7 plug and finding they don't fit their
European non-standard sockets!

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Terry

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