Is it just me

[ebee]

Is it just me.

Wiring a Plug,
how many examples shown on the web etc are very poor?
one very basic thing they nearly all seem to miss is stripping back insulation with lengths appropriate to mitigate cable (flex) pull out.
Cord grips should be strong enough for the job but even the best can become slack eventually.
Whatever happened to the practice of arranged lengths so that Lives pull out first and Earth last?
Line and N first (or prefferably Line first then N second) then E last of all.

The E chamber easily allows a longer flex that has to be pulled quite a way to ensure Line and N have already pulled well out and the E is still connected, hence it will be last to disconnect by a fair margain.
Does nobody teach that these days???

 

[pete01]

We all copy the diagram...don't we?

 

[JohnW2]

Is it just me.

Definitely not

 

[JohnW2]

We all copy the diagram...don't we?

 

[mattylad]

No, it is not taught any more (was it ever?) as the majority of appliances sold now come with a molded plug.

 

[pete01]

No, it is not taught any more (was it ever?) as the majority of appliances sold now come with a molded plug.

I was taught it in school

 

[mattylad]

You must be really really old then

 

[pete01]

You must be really really old then

Not really lol under 50, also my next door neighbour is a retired science teacher she told me the once how she used to teach fitting a plug, she's a dab hand at it.

 

[Echo the husky]

This is a plug on a piece of hire equipment, how it was returned by a builder after he had hired it. All I've done for this photo is remove the cover.

This was sent for repair with the complaint of shocks from appliance:

 

[pete01]

One I found recently

 

[ebee]

Yes it was taught in schools.
What I have seen recently is terrible.
Standards have really gone downhill.

 

[securespark]

I've got a kettle lead somewhere from a kettle of a customer.

I looked for it earlier but can't find it. When I do, I'll post pictures here.

It belonged to an elderly lady I visited. Let's just say it was a total death trap and every possible thing that could be wrong and every possible hazard that could be present was present.

It was, quite literally, shocking.

The thing predated moulded plugs and the plug was fitted by the husband, who had since died.

I took the kettle and the lead off her and went out and bought her a brand new kettle out of my own pocket.

I've since used the lead as a teaching aid several times.

 

[333rocky333]

This was done by a pub manager

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[Echo the husky]

I assume he was drunk at the time?!!!

 

[JohnW2]

I was taught it in school

I must confess that I thought you were 'silently commenting' on the fact that the way those cardboard diagrams are attached could be taken by some to suggest that the L pin is the N one and vice versa