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Originally Posted by Boater Sam
I had one that had 4 plugs with 3 round thin pins in line. The centre pin was earth and longer than the others.
I forget the current rating but it was probably around 6 amps, the connections to the sockets inside the box was a printed circuit I think.
I dumped it when I found that for some obscure reason it introduced interference into any audio device plugged into it.
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As a schoolboy photographer I wired all my darkroom equipment with 3 Amp Bulgin plugs with sockets on a distribution board (earthed metal box) with individual toggle switches. Yikes, the pins would have been live, domestic ELCB/RCD were unheard of, and the darkroom was, well, dark.
Thing was, you couldn't roll up to your local Supermarket and buy a four-way distribution bar, I don't think either of those concepts were well established in the mid '60s.