Re: Why did folk always unplug the telly at night?
I dumped an electric kettle because when left powered over night it sometimes went bang for no reason. It took some time to trace where the banging was coming from.
The kettle had a plastic level gauge that was not the same type of plastic as the body of the kettle fitted with a useless seal.
It filled up with water so the idiots in the factory changed the base molding to include a little hole for the water to get out.
The water was getting into the live base and the power was blowing it off every now and again.
Always make sure you can see the construction of kettles close to the bottom of the level indicator without any bits of trim to hide bodges of this nature. Expensive models are not immune to this.
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