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That would be a "screwed cover which belongs to a plug top" you are thinking of Winston
You and BAS can like it or lump it, but plug top is a perfectly accepted term to most sparkies and wholesalers etc.
It also avoids confusion with the thing that fits in the bottom of a hand basin!
You and BAS can like it or lump it, but plug top is a perfectly accepted term to most sparkies and wholesalers etc.
It also avoids confusion with the thing that fits in the bottom of a hand basin!
Better calling it a plug top (I have no problem with this btw) than calling a socket a 'plug socket'
That's it! - no wonder my water always runs away.
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Wrong both you and wholesalers. A plug top IS the screwed cover, it does not have another one. It's amazing that wholesalers don't know what they are selling!
I have a transformer here, its got a tap on it
I have to say that I'm the other way around. "Plug top" is just silly and meaningless, and I can't imagine how on earth it came into being. However, even though the meaning of "socket" will nearly always be obvious because of the context, at least qualifying "socket" with "plug" removes theoretical ambiguity - since what goes into a socket could be a plug, but could, for example, also be a soil (or other) pipe, a bolt head, nut or screw, the stump of an amputated limb or countless other things.
Kind Regards, John
I will have to try to find it, in one of my 1930s electrical magazines I'm sure I saw an advert for plugs (sockets) and plug tops (plugs).
Quite. The term just suddenly seemed to appear out of nowhere, for no particular reason.
And just because many electricians and wholesalers might use the term, that doesn't make it right. How many computer stores will sell you an "RJ-45" patch lead for your network connection, or a "DB9" serial cable? Both have come into common usage, and both are wrong.
In the trade, they are called plug tops.
And so that's what you ask for, otherwise it turns into a Two Ronnies sketch.
Nobody knows why they're called that, but they've been called that for many, many decades.
As regards to the original question. It's an 80s house, no doubt quite small and thrown up in a few weeks.
If the circuits aren't
Cooker 30A
Sockets 30A
Immersion 15A
Lighting 5A
I'll eat my hat.
And so that's what you ask for, otherwise it turns into a Two Ronnies sketch.
Nobody knows why they're called that, but they've been called that for many, many decades.
As regards to the original question. It's an 80s house, no doubt quite small and thrown up in a few weeks.
If the circuits aren't
Cooker 30A
Sockets 30A
Immersion 15A
Lighting 5A
I'll eat my hat.
I have never, ever, in all my years called a BS1363 plug anything but a plug.
Even the desription pariah B&Q do not use "top" in their listing of the devices.
http://www.diy.com/departments/bq-13a-plug/753985_BQ.prd
Shouldn't that be called "hatbrim"?
No, I don't think so.
Which trade?
Quite. On the same basis, plugs are not plug tops.
Maybe not, but that's what many people in the electrical industry making, selling and buying them would call them. Same with colleges.
I didn't name them that,but that's what people called them.
I didn't name them that,but that's what people called them.
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