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All the ones I remember had been cut on one side of the opening to get the cable in after forgetting to fit the cover first.
Should not really still have UNSLEEVED pin plugs in your house, especially if children are about.
Totally agree, luckily only ever been used with only me present.
As I say the plug is a museum peice and has been taken out of action and marked “do not use”. The point of this thread is for vintage electrics.
As I say the plug is a museum peice and has been taken out of action and marked “do not use”. The point of this thread is for vintage electrics.
I call(ed) them pattresses. I fitted some wall lights in my living room a couple of decades ago, they had just a bare gold coloured metal base to fix to the wall, which I thought would look simply wrong - so I turned up some fancy wooden pattresses from some scrap wood. I used a drill, clamped in a vice, with a long bolt through the middle of the wood block, plus sharp chisels to turn the block to shape and varnished them. I still have those wall lights and pattresses up, though now converted to LED.
I also have a 13amp plug identical to cwhaley's rubber plug. Its on a very old extension lead I used to use in my garden.
Because of this thread, readers may be interested in "The Museum of Plugs and Sockets", of which the first British page is https://www.plugsocketmuseum.nl/British1.html
I have an oldish 1200amp clamp meter I bought in the late 1970 for big pump motors, several Avo 8's and a AEI(?) Selectest. I just keep them for old times sake, as they were what I was brought up on. I really couldn't wait to move to the digital meters quick enough, when they appeared, buying one of the Sinclair LED meters.
Great posts thanks all