arcarlini at
iee.org wrote:
Tony Duell [ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk] wrote:
Most of the time I cut them off and fit an MK or
Duraplug (acutally
the same company). Then I know it's done properly.
I did once find my (then) two year old messing with a cut off 13A
plug in an unswitched socket (older house). It was as I was pulling
it out (with my fingers brushing against the cut end of the cable)
that I resolved to dispose of such cut-offs immediately and securely.
Ouch :-)
Reminds me of when we where learning to wire plugs in Physics when I was
at school (about 14/15). We where given about a foot of cable, stripped
at both ends and a standard 3 pin plug and screwdriver. We pretty much
all managed to wire the plugs correctly, which was good. What wasn't so
good was that the class brain also plugged the thing into the socket and
hit the on switch.......at which point there was a loud bang and a flash
! Needless to say the said class brain's hands where rather less than
steady when taking the thing apart again.
I do kinda understand why this happened I guess you generally wire a
plug you do so because you want to use the thing that it's attached to.
However it does go to illustrate that no matter how familliar you are
with a task, you should always pay attention to what you are doing :) :)
Bet he's never done it again tho.......
Cheers.
Phill.
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Phill Harvey-Smith, Programmer, Hardware hacker, and general eccentric !
"You can twist perceptions, but reality won't budge" -- Rush.