Barking Mat
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Hello, got a spare? I've an address in Wales?
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Yep and he's the 1200W version!
So I cut off the plug and fitted a new one and he works!!!
Switches are all good and there's no stuttering when you wind his head around when running so I think it's a fix!
The weird thing is when I tested the plug after it seems to be fine
But I did find some greasy stuff on the fuse so maybe it was that.
A top result.
Mad world when people are chucking stuff out for a faulty plug top. Remember in year 6 at primary school learning how to wire a plug, homework was to practise, bet they don't teach that anymore, disposable everything.
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....Yep. Just in case they offend somebody that doesn’t identify as Male or Female, but rather identifies as a pop up toaster....
Barking Mat
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Are you allowed to change a plug nowadays in this mad mad world.
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I second that!think we need to start the save a henry societyor section
I have a stash so I can do just that. Sxxt the thought police are onto me
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....Yep. Just in case they offend somebody that doesn’t identify as Male or Female, but rather identifies as a pop up toaster....
Olderisbetter
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That comment and video made me decide to have toast as a snack, if anyone identifies as a Lincat LT6 toaster they are more than welcome in my world.
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They do or did until recently, my lad came home from school with about six inches of cable attached to a 13A plug, would have been about eight years ago, he is about to do his A levels this year.
arther dailey
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victoryYep and he's the 1200W version!
So I cut off the plug and fitted a new one and he works!!!
Switches are all good and there's no stuttering when you wind his head around when running so I think it's a fix!
The weird thing is when I tested the plug after it seems to be fine
But I did find some greasy stuff on the fuse so maybe it was that.
A top result.
thats the proper way to start the stop of waste, excellent
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zx9
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The thought did cross my mind that it may not be the safest thing that he had brought home, out of the sixty or so kids in his year as far as I know no one died.There's potential for someone to strip the ends of the cable - plug it in and you have a murder weapon....
[if you can persuade your victim to stand really close to a socket....
]
zx9
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He was very proud of his achievement and when opened up it was a neater job than many adults would make, how long was the cable to start with and did the teacher now have a non working desk lamp ? All good questions which would have been asked by a more 'sharp elbowed' parent.
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I saw a tray of them in the physics classroom at school with a pop rivet through the end of the earth pin so you couldn't plug them in. I think my brother said he did it at GCSE but I never did it in school.There's potential for someone to strip the ends of the cable - plug it in and you have a murder weapon....
One of my housemates saw me change a plug a few weeks ago and asked how I knew how to. I said "err everyone knows don't they?". Apparently not.
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On the PAT training course they show you how to remove, prepare the cable and fit a 3 pin plug.I saw a tray of them in the physics classroom at school with a pop rivet through the end of the earth pin so you couldn't plug them in. I think my brother said he did it at GCSE but I never did it in school.
One of my housemates saw me change a plug a few weeks ago and asked how I knew how to. I said "err everyone knows don't they?". Apparently not.
When asked about 115v yellow, 240v blue and 3 phase red plugs you are told you need to be a certified electrical technician..
????????
Then you are advised that if you deem your some insufficiently trained you do nor have to replace a plug.
Times we live in are interesting.
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In one of my previous jobs I regularly fitted 415 V 3-phase red plugs to the products for which I had designed the electronics (as well as doing all the low-voltage directive assessment etc). I also did product testing up to 900 V three phase and fast transient burst testing up to 8 kV. However, I wasn't (officially, ahem) allowed to wire up standard 3 pin plugs.
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If only every school taught this... sadly the common sense approach seems to be leaving us
My word. I've seen the results of some"certifed" electricians, impressed I was not. It's not rocket science, it just needs someone who isn't brain-dead.
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Madness.
The site I am on.
They have to get the contract staff in to change lamps.
The site in house electricians do not have the bit of paper to say they can.
The site I am on.
They have to get the contract staff in to change lamps.
The site in house electricians do not have the bit of paper to say they can.
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Munkul
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by contrast, I visited a site a few years ago with an incredibly well-ran engineering dept.
Their electricians weren't allowed to change lightbulbs.
..Because their labour was too valuable to waste doing menial jobs like that. They had contractors come in regularly instead
