Reminiscence: Remember the excitement of getting a new electrical appliance
and buying a brand new 13 amp plug (Paying extra for white!) and taking a
lot of pride in fitting it really well?

Then there was the Xmas present without a plug - shall I use matchsticks -
or borrow a plug off something else until I can get to the shops.

Ah the '60's

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John

John wrote:

Ah the '60's

60s? I remember doing that as little as 10-15 years ago :-)

(there are still a few old lamps around in the cellar at my parents' house
without plugs on because they were needed for shiny new things)

John.

JM wrote:

John wrote:

Ah the '60's


60s? I remember doing that as little as 10-15 years ago :-)

(there are still a few old lamps around in the cellar at my parents' house
without plugs on because they were needed for shiny new things)

John.


I am so sad. I cannot bring myself to throw away pld plugs, as they
were always needed. Now I have a bagful, and I still add when I have
another appliance to throw away. such a sad old bu**er.

Broadback wrote:

I am so sad. I cannot bring myself to throw away pld plugs, as they
were always needed. Now I have a bagful, and I still add when I have
another appliance to throw away. such a sad old bu**er.

You and me both... I can't throw *anything* away; when I was a kid I had
a Blue-Peter-esque 'useful box'; now I have a 'useful garage' and a
'useful attic' instead.

However my Old Plug mountain was at least partially solved one day by
making the momentous decision to at least divest myself of all the
really old substandard ones, ie those without partly-insulated live and
neutral pins.

Does that help you at all?!

David

On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 10:24:46 GMT, Lobster
wrote:

However my Old Plug mountain was at least partially solved one day by
making the momentous decision to at least divest myself of all the
really old substandard ones, ie those without partly-insulated live and
neutral pins.

Plugs with uninsulated pins are now illegal.

sPoNiX

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Broadback writes:
I am so sad. I cannot bring myself to throw away pld plugs, as they
were always needed. Now I have a bagful, and I still add when I have
another appliance to throw away. such a sad old bu**er.

How about, for starters, throw out any which don't have sleeved pins?

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Andrew Gabriel

On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 09:47:49 +0000, Broadback wrote:

I am so sad. I cannot bring myself to throw away pld plugs, as they
were always needed. Now I have a bagful,

I'd go through it a chuck out any without sleeved L and N pins. It is
fairly easy to stick your fingers under a plug just as you push it in
and get a belt...

and I still add when I have another appliance to throw away.

Whats the point of keeping moulded plugs? B-) Everything these days
and for quite a long time has had a moulded plug.

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s--p--o--n--i--x wrote:

Plugs with uninsulated pins are now illegal.

To sell or to use?

s--p--o--n--i--x wrote:
On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 10:24:46 GMT, Lobster
wrote:


However my Old Plug mountain was at least partially solved one day by
making the momentous decision to at least divest myself of all the
really old substandard ones, ie those without partly-insulated live and
neutral pins.


Plugs with uninsulated pins are now illegal.

Well, obviously you can't buy them, but AFAIK the Electricity Police
don't come round people's homes checking to make sure there are none
there. There must be millions still in regular use around the UK, and
probably many people don't appreciate the safety aspect and remove them
from broken appliances to retain for future use.

As I don't ever refit plugs with uninsulated pins myself, TBH it wasn't
really a particularly momentous decision to bin mine (as in, why the
hell did I ever keep them in the first place!!??)

David

In article ,
(s--p--o--n--i--x) writes:
On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 10:24:46 GMT, Lobster
wrote:

However my Old Plug mountain was at least partially solved one day by
making the momentous decision to at least divest myself of all the
really old substandard ones, ie those without partly-insulated live and
neutral pins.

Plugs with uninsulated pins are now illegal.

It is illegal to sell an electrical appliance with an old BS1363
plug with unsleaved pins. However, it is not actually a cause for
PAT test failure, although they will often be replaced during PAT
testing. The very much older 13A plugs without the widened body
or flange near the live and neutral pins to discourge finger
wrap-a-round would be a PAT test failure though.

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Andrew Gabriel

"Dave Liquorice" wrote
| Whats the point of keeping moulded plugs? B-) Everything these
| days and for quite a long time has had a moulded plug.

A lot of stuff nowadays has a rewirable plug - probably because it's cheaper
to have a Chinaman with a screwdriver than it is to buy a
putting-on-British-plugs machine.

Anyway, if moulded leads are cut off close to the discarded appliance they
can be reused to make custom length extension or BS1363 -- IEC leads.

Safety note for any children listening - any moulded plugs/leads should have
the fuse removed or otherwise disabled to prevent accidents from plugging in
a lead with bare live ends.

Owain

On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 07:27:03 GMT, "John" strung
together this:

Reminiscence: Remember the excitement of getting a new electrical appliance
and buying a brand new 13 amp plug (Paying extra for white!) and taking a
lot of pride in fitting it really well?

Yep, I remember the first time, I got a Matsui SX5420 for my 9th
birthday, (or was it Christmas), and got a red plug because I like
red.
The radio still works and is used daily and the lead and plug are one
of the best quality figure of 8 leads I've ever come across.

Then there was the Xmas present without a plug - shall I use matchsticks -

I never did that, I was always aware of electrical safety from an
early age.

or borrow a plug off something else until I can get to the shops.

Still do that!

Ah the '60's

What? This would have been 1987 for my memory lane story.
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Frank Erskine wrote:

Republic of Wales?

Assuming that's a genuine question ... "Rest of World"

s--p--o--n--i--x wrote:

On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 10:24:46 GMT, Lobster
wrote:


However my Old Plug mountain was at least partially solved one day by
making the momentous decision to at least divest myself of all the
really old substandard ones, ie those without partly-insulated live and
neutral pins.


Plugs with uninsulated pins are now illegal.

To sell, not to use.


sPoNiX

In article om,
Dave Liquorice wrote:
Whats the point of keeping moulded plugs? B-) Everything these days
and for quite a long time has had a moulded plug.

No - bought a Chinese DVD recorder from the Savacentre and was pleasantly
surprised to find a rewirable one - since I use IEC on my set up to save
space.

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Dave Plowman London SW
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In article , s--p--o--n--i--x
wrote:

Plugs with uninsulated pins are now illegal.

Only to sell or pass on surely?

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In article , Frank Erskine
wrote:

Republic of Wales?

Republic of Westminster if Bliar gets back in again.

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On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 21:35:39 -0000, "Mike" strung
together this:

Just had that with a Neff Microwave. Apparently in the RoW you get a plug
but in UK and Australia they want it solidly wired in.

Wired into what, moulded plugs? You can get stuff with rewiable plugs
on them.
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