Has anybody noticed a drastic decrease in the quality of screw terminals recently?
I fitted a couple of gridswitches recently that had part of the screw missing so were very hard to screw down, a spark friend of mine has had the same problem with numerous metalclad sockets and I fitted a 5amp socket today that, for some reason, had loctite in all 3 threads. Are they that concerned about them working their way out on their own that they now need to lock them in?
Also binned a couple of Logic 2G socket outlets a few weeks back as the L terminal screws were so rubbish the head sheared right off.
Now, I don't fit that many, people must use them on a day to day basis (or perhaps not so much anymore) and given the problem seems to be across the range, not just a bad batch.
I fitted a couple of gridswitches recently that had part of the screw missing so were very hard to screw down, a spark friend of mine has had the same problem with numerous metalclad sockets and I fitted a 5amp socket today that, for some reason, had loctite in all 3 threads. Are they that concerned about them working their way out on their own that they now need to lock them in?
Also binned a couple of Logic 2G socket outlets a few weeks back as the L terminal screws were so rubbish the head sheared right off.
Now, I don't fit that many, people must use them on a day to day basis (or perhaps not so much anymore) and given the problem seems to be across the range, not just a bad batch.