Old Creda 790550 storage heater not working

[Jazsnap]

I have an old Cread 790550 storage heater which has never worked, I have checked the fuse in the wall socket & on the fuseboard & both are fine.

After unscrewing the wall socket it seems to be in very bad condition & could possibly be the problem, as a quick check can I wire the flex from the storage heater straight into a 13 Amp plug, just for purposes of testing?

TIA, Jase

 

[ericmark]

A wall socket has a maximum of 3kW or 13A in most cases this is also the supply used for storage heaters and so you could test it in 13A socket but some of the older ones were 15A and would overload the circuit and also they do take some time to react I used one to test the iron ore concrete blocks and I was surprised on both how long and how much water the blocks contained and there is an issue with electric and water and the plug and socket do not have as good of an earth connection as directly wired in so some care must be exercised.