#9

Yep. Not much need now that appliances come with them though.

#10

Really hate those two pin plugs for some reason

#11

Yes
Yes
Yes

As blimeycharlie says, it’s not really necessary these days, but I do recall one Christmas I got a set of four plugs from my mum - red, blue, green, yellow - to stick on the ends of stuff like TV, radio, Commodore 64, fan-heater (something like that) so I was sure to know which device I was unplugging without needing to check. Yes people, in the early 80s things were simple.

#12

Yeah, 3 pins rules.

#13

Used to rewire plugs and check everything had the right fuse as a kid for fun. Got a tool box for my 6th or 7th birthday cos I was so into tampering with electrical stuff

#14

my god

“mum look! santa’s been!”

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#15

BRown = bottom right
BLue = bottom left

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#16

Yeah, I’m trained to train other people how to do PAT testing. Most useless ‘qualification’ ever, only did it for my cv and nobody even gives a shit.

#17

If I had access to a youtube video on how to rewire a plug if you needed to

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#18

So what does the T in PAT testing stand for? :wink:

#19

We just finished our company wide PAT testing, such a tedious job.
That being said I don’t do it

#20

Are you trained in calling companies and threatening to shop them in for having illegal untested appliances!!!

#21

plugs. and. that.

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#22

Yes. My dad worked abroad when I was younger and I was in charge of this.

Being old this is when anything new didn’t have a plug. How stupid is again retrospect?

#23

Electronics was a weird class, only one where people would give you a dead arm for being wrong/not getting full marks. School is weird.
In answer to your question, in theory yes, in practise probably :urn:

#24

I’ve got to the age of…28 without ever having to change one. I’ve probably just been buying new appliances when they go because the odds on that must be quite high.

There are some chores that i just consider beneath me. Pretry much anything DIY related, bar the odd bit of decorating. I know it’s immature and lazy, but i work long hours, so it always comes down to a basic inconvenience versus cost sum - do i want to open something up, work out what’s wrong, go to the shops for the part, come back and fit it, or can i just press a button online and have a brand new one delivered for about £15?

#25

Thankfully I’m on the other side of it and generally the one receiving those calls. We outsourced one year and I was waking round with a rep and kept correcting him when he said things were ‘illegal’ because they weren’t tested every year. He was getting angrier and angrier. I can’t help feeling the enthusiasm for testing everything is somehow tied to the fact they get paid per item.

#26

one particular office i worked in used to get so many of those calls and they could be so bloody aggressive. i just started hanging up on any that gave me grief. but yeah, that makes sense!

#27

If you tell them that it is done in-house then they usually take you off their list. I’m not sure how successful they are with their sales tactics though, I had one rep tell me that I could end up IN PRISON. NOOOOOOO.

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#28

That’s what I was going to say. You don’t need to know what each does as long as you remember this.

We learned it in standard grade (GCSE) physics. If I hadn’t taken that class then I may have very well blown myself up by now.