Advice please re shaver socket

[NoisyParkser1]

I've put up with this problem for 25 years (sorry !!!) and its about time I did something about it (although when two electricians have been here to do other work, they have both looked at this and said 'can't see anything wrong'):

When I plug my razor into my bathroom shaver socket, it won't work if I push the two-pin plug all the way in; the only way it will work is to tilt the plug so that one pin is almosty completely in and the other about half in!!! this sometimes gives off little sparks, but it then works ok until the plug moves and I have to adjust it .....
The original socket (with transistor) was installed when the house was built; after about ten years I got fed up, bought a new socket and installed it - and the same thing happened! It has been like that for the past 15 years. I am now even more fed up and have decided I must get it sorted out. My razer works in every other socket I use it in, home and overseas.
Was I just unlucky and got two duff sockets, even the new one which I bought and replaced? Or is the wiring incorrect - it is basically live, neutral and earth going into the box. Like I say, two electricians have said it looks ok and the box must be wrong....... I think it is something more than that.
Can anyone help???

 

[Chri5]

Have to checked the razor ply and made sure it hasn't splayed inward or outward ?

Sometimes they get crushed and since the prongs are not true, the contact is poor.

Pushing and fiddling the way you have done to get power won't have done the shaver outlets springs and contacts any good- I'd replace the existing one, and renew you lead if the prongs don't look square / parallel with each other.

 

[ban-all-sheds]

My razer works in every other socket I use it in, home and overseas.

Does it work in other shaver sockets, or in ones which look an awful lot like shaver sockets but aren't?

Do you have any other razors in the house, or could you get a mate to bring his over and see if he has the same problem?

Have you been plugging anything other than a razor into that socket?

 

[NoisyParkser1]

Yes - it works in other sockets.
Yes - have tried other razors in there and they do the same.
No - nothing else has been plugged in there.

I'm guessing I'll try the wires as suggested above, but then buy another unit and hope that works

 

[stem]

Shaver sockets in bathrooms are fitted with isolating transformers. They provide mains voltage (and sometimes 110v as well, I suppose in case you have visitors from the USA) but there is no direct wired connection to the mains.

Transformers are not quite 100% efficient and so waste some energy as heat. To prevent this waste occuring and also shortening the life of the transformer by it being on when the socket is not being used, many shaver sockets are fitted with a microswitch that turns on the supply to the transformer when the shaver plug is inserted. The actuator of the microswitch could be worn, or the contacts may have pitted, or it may have moved slightly.

 

[ban-all-sheds]

Yes - it works in other sockets.

Are they other shaver sockets, or ones which look an awful lot like shaver sockets but aren't?

Basically I'm wondering if, somehow, you haven't actually got a shaver plug on your razor.