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Old 4th Nov 2017, 12:44 pm   #41
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Default Re: Thought this might amuse you...

Reminds me of the botch I found some years ago:

An old 1950s house with only two single unswitched 13A outlets in the living room.

13A plug fitted to one socket, a length of the old flat 'figure-of-8' single-insulated flex ran from this.

Under the carpet, and across the room to the bay-window where the TV and VCR sat, where the figure-of-8 flex ran into one of the circular brown bakelite junction-boxes normally used for connecting up T&E then a length of 3-core cable ran from this to a 4-way 13A trailing-outlet strip, the end of the outlet-strip's earth-wire not being connected to anything.

"Been like that for years" explained the owner when challenged. He was not amused when I refused to touch his TV.
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