NHS Bans Socket Covers

[brightspark]

all this talk of electrical sockets reminds be of this old Public Information Film

good old black and decker

 

[normspanners]

all this talk of electrical sockets reminds be of this old Public Information Film

YEP those plastic safety plugs make it much easier to wire drills like that, saves having to use matchsticks.

 

[normspanners]

HEHE our 'brand new' house had 5 seperate SINGLE sockets in the whole house. I've just had a quick count up and in my kitchen and day room area (one room )I have about at least 60 plugs plugged in --- maybe more !!

 

[the snooper]

I remember my mum ironing with a bayonet plug on the iron, she used to take the bulb out and connect the iron in until we where posh, and we got an adapter so she could have light as well

ive go both of those although the adaptor has a pull switch, ive also got the round 2 pin plug that fits into a bayonet adaptor

 

[brightspark]

ive go both of those although the adaptor has a pull switch, ive also got the round 2 pin plug that fits into a bayonet adaptor

wanna price to rewire your house

 

[the snooper]

wanna price to rewire your house

errm they are not in use just sat in a box

 

[normspanners]

ive go both of those although the adaptor has a pull switch, ive also got the round 2 pin plug that fits into a bayonet adaptor

GOOD OLD Bakelite

 

[the snooper]

GOOD OLD Bakelite

yeah with split pin type prongs, push up slot wire in and push back down

 

[normspanners]

I have about at least 60 plugs plugged in --- maybe more !!

UPS I have forgot loads ----more like 80 !!

 

[brightspark]

GOOD OLD Bakelite

yea good old asbestos included

 

[the snooper]

yea good old asbestos included

anyway my house has all that modern braided cable through out and ceramic insulators in the loft for the incommer and nice round bakelite toggle light switches with screw off covers and even 2 ultra modern type of 3 pin sockets 1 larger then the other with round pin plugs none of the square malarky and a modern pay as you go meter that takes shillings

 

[normspanners]

anyway my house has all that modern braided cable through out and ceramic insulators in the loft for the incommer and nice round bakelite toggle light switches with screw off covers and even 2 ultra modern type of 3 pin sockets 1 larger then the other with round pin plugs none of the square malarky and a modern pay as you go meter that takes shillings

WHEN you come to think 40 years ago just how dangerous it was in the 'modern' house, most things used those light adapters--- most with with broken bayonet pins hanging in and shorting and flashing and nobody gave it a second thought. and most of the CU fuses were wired with 20 or 30 amp wire to save the problem of them blowing.
HOW ARE WE STILL ALIVE !!

 

[colnerov]

Safety covers are available on a roll.

 

[the snooper]

WHEN you come to think 40 years ago just how dangerous it was in the 'modern' house, most things used those light adapters--- most with with broken bayonet pins hanging in and shorting and flashing and nobody gave it a second thought. and most of the CU fuses were wired with 20 or 30 amp wire to save the problem of them blowing.
HOW ARE WE STILL ALIVE !!

and you only had around 4 fuses if you were lucky
ring down, ring up, and 1 each for lighting circuits

 

[colnerov]

Or can be used to keep little fingers away at source.

 

[normspanners]

Safety covers are available on a roll.

HEHE doesnt work----- I had a faulty brass socket in the hall that the pins didnt hold in properly and as a quick safety remedy put tape on the socket came to it the next day and someone had plugged in through the tape!! the thing was the socket connectors worked better WITH the tape !!

 

[Pete.]

Am I the only one here who is struggling to understand why it's necessary to whip up such a frenzy about a poxy plastic insert?

 

[Wendelspanswick]

Now, my question to you, why are you so hell bent on trying to prove that these stupid devices are acceptable?

Most probably because most people don't like being preached at by a self proclaimed expert who can't be bothered to set out his argument in his opening statement but just assumes we will do as he instructs?
Personally I find socket covers irritating as I struggle to remove them with arthritic fingers but having read the Fatally Flawed website and your comments about socket covers being dangerous I can find no figures for deaths or injuries caused by the things apart from my own experience of having stepped on one with bare feet and I wouldn't call that an injury, more of a wild swearing incident!

 

[GW8IZR]

I always thought they were a solution to a problem that didn't exist.

 

[Cobbler]

and you only had around 4 fuses if you were lucky
ring down, ring up, and 1 each for lighting circuits

We had lead cable, fuses on both the live & neutral, how dangerous is that, blow the neutral fuse & the circuit stays live, 2 amp, 5 amp, & 15 3 pin sockets & a couple of 10 amp two pin sockets. This lot was used until my mother died 20 years ago. No she wasn't electrocuted!