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7th Jan 2019, 1:15 am | #21 |
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Re: Has anyone had this happen to them when unplugging?
Over the years I have seen this a few times. It only takes a slightly loose screw then some unplugging and replugging and you have a very dangerous situation like the one pictured in the OP. I have also had plugs fall apart if knocked or dropped.
In general it's a pretty poor design of the UK plug that enables this situation to even arise in the first place. In general I prefer the Euro-Schuko type plugs, where the two halves usually separate at 90ยบ to the wall, one has to grip them together to remove the plug from the wall. It would be practically impossible for the live terminals to be exposed as in the above case.
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7th Jan 2019, 6:58 pm | #22 |
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Re: Has anyone had this happen to them when unplugging?
"Hercules"-branded rubber plugs [that was the Woolworths home-brand version of Duraplug] were prone to this - the rubber cover had a brass insert moulded-in to take the cover retaining-screw: over time the rubber shrunk [often leading to the plug-pins relaxedly adopting a formation that made them tricky to fit a 13A socket without wiggling] and after a while the bond between the insert and the cover failed so the cover would pull-off rather than pulling the plug out.
This is the sort of issue that has educated me not to unnecessarily or wantonly remove any kind of plugs from their sockets - and in plenty of cases to replace 13A switched-sockets with unswitched fused flex-outlets! |
16th Feb 2019, 11:05 pm | #23 | |
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Re: Has anyone had this happen to them when unplugging?
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