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EddieM
So, (just to annoy BAS) I replaced the snapped pull cord in our bathroom this weekend. I was wondering what the purpose of the toggle was these days, when the cord is nylon?
So I don't understand so could you explain why toggles so need not be used with nylon cords so I may give you an answer so you will know .
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EddieM
So, what advantage to they offer?
What are you calling a toggle? The grip at the bottom?
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EddieM
No, the toggley plastic bit at the top of the cord, presumably in the past when the string was, err.. string?
Cord between switch and toggle is stronger than the cord from toggle to hand. Hence when the children to a Tarzan swing the cord below the toggle breaks, thus no need to replace the whole switch.
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EddieM
Ah, yes it's so you can replace it easily, not only if broken but it gets grubby after a while.
I suppose you could even take it off to wash it.
I suppose you could even take it off to wash it.
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EddieM
Easily?! apart from when you cut the knot off it frays into an "afro" that is anything but easy! I guess the alternative is more work though. I thought originally it might have been due to electrical isolation of potentially conductive string... Maybe not.
No, that's the point of the cord - not conductive.
You can of course take the switch apart and install a new cord doing away with the unsightly 'toggle' - or if the top bit breaks - but that is not as (not 'not so') easily done.
You can of course take the switch apart and install a new cord doing away with the unsightly 'toggle' - or if the top bit breaks - but that is not as (not 'not so') easily done.
How pathetic.
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EddieM
Indeed you can be.
So did I, but the old MK ones have brass toggley things.
And can't not be...
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Moi, je suis un skinflint. Je lave mon pullcord a bleach.
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