Fan has two pin plug

[Harry Bloomfield]

Where the plug is polarised that is generally so - however vast numbers of appliances sold in huge swathes of the world have 2 pin unpolarised plugs, so it would be impossible for any switch to be in a specific conductor.

I have never seen such an appliance, which uses such a plug, have a built-in switch.

 

[Why Not Indeed]

31 ****ing posts on the fitting of a plug. Sheesh.

 

[SUNRAY]

31 ****ing posts on the fitting of a plug. Sheesh.

32 33

 

[Munroast]

I have never seen such an appliance, which uses such a plug, have a built-in switch.

I have been searching around the house and so far you seem correct - (apart from stuff where the appliance switch is at the low dc voltage side of a transformer)

of course all these non polarised plugs are also double insulated (the double square box symbol) so I guess which side is switched off is less relevant as the much lower likelyhood of getting a shock ?

31 ****ing posts on the fitting of a plug. Sheesh.

may be - but there is some other interseting stuff arrising that us non-sparkies would like to explore

 

[morqthana]

I'll see your 33 and raise y....

Oh maybe not.

 

[SUNRAY]

I'll see your 33 and raise y....

Oh maybe not.

At least I got a pair and in cribbage and that's worth 2 points and the thing about a non polarised plug or socket is the 2 points are non polarised...

 

[morqthana]

2 points?

I got 19!

 

[Taylortwocities]

At least I got a pair and in cribbage and that's worth 2 points and the thing about a non polarised plug or socket is the 2 points are non polarised...

Plus one for his nob?

 

[robinbanks]

Reminds me a bit of calling a socket a "plug socket".

Which reminds me of Michael McIntyre's sketch about American English

Horseback riding
Eye glasses
Sidewalk
Waste-paper basket

It's in case the Merrcahns forget what the thing does/where it goes/how it is used

 

[robinbanks]

And how do I determine which is N and L?

Same way you determined it when it still had a two pin plug on and you were plugging it into an adaptor that would accept the plug either way up

 

[ebee]

Which reminds me of Michael McIntyre's sketch about American English

Horseback riding
Eye glasses
Sidewalk
Waste-paper basket

It's in case the Merrcahns forget what the thing does/where it goes/how it is used

Yes, one of my customers was telling me he had been in hospital for an operation on his "scrotum sack" , he used the term a few times to me and other people too, he probably thought some people might not know what a scrotum was!

 

[SUNRAY]

Which reminds me of Michael McIntyre's sketch about American English

I know he bandies these about as comedy but it wasn't that many years ago we british used the expression

Eye glass

as anything to do with assisting sight, especially: Magnifying glass & monocle.

I and my peers have always used the term

Waste-paper basket

Or waste paper bin for an office type situation.

At least

Sidewalk

is descriptive whereas ours are not.

 

[SUNRAY]

I know he bandies these about as comedy but it wasn't that many years ago we british used the expression

as anything to do with assisting sight, especially: Magnifying glass & monocle.

I and my peers have always used the term

Or waste paper bin for an office type situation.

At least

is descriptive whereas ours are not.

I've just asked Mrs Sunray where they put their rubbish in the classroom, her instant reply: "Waste paper basket and in the playground in the waste paper bin".

 

[ebee]

Yes the English language has some weird quirks and that`s only if we stick to usual conventions, we use local or county or Norf/Sarf conventions too and even down to family level, the we let other countries conventions slip in by the back door (USA for example) and we follow lots of Greek/French/Germans and ancient Italians deliberately in part.
And that is purely considering folks speaking English as their first language.
It is quite amazing that anybody actually half understands what anybody else might mean most of the time.
A bloody Miracle I might describe it.
It adds to the rich tapestry of life.


(I just hope somebody understood some of what I just said)

 

[SUNRAY]

(I just hope somebody understood some of what I just said)

Eh dinnae ken