#3

Probably not. Flipped over to an old crystal maze yesterday and someone had to rewire a giant plug and they failed.

#4

The colours don’t mean anything, you can wire it pretty much how you want.

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#5

of course.

remember that it is brown as it makes you poo yourself

#6

We’re one of the few countries that even includes a fuse in plugs. Which is why ours are so huge in comparison. EU two prong plugs don’t even matter which is live and which is neutral.

#8

Yes.
Yes.
Yes.

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#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: