Jury-rigging a spur on a 3-pin plug

[Mottie]

Outside the rear of my workshop is a parking space. Old bangers can be parked up for a while and sometimes need a jump start with the battery booster. I have an outside socket fed by a 2' piece of 2.5mm t&e going through the wall that I have a plug fitted to. When I need to use that socket, I just plug it into a socket inside the workshop.

 

[MisterBoy]

Sounds like this is fairly common then, I feel less dodgy doing it

 

[Taylortwocities]

Winston’s regs book doesn’t allow it though. Suppose you get found out by the inspection police?

 

[SUNRAY]

Yes, but you queried Winston saying T&E is not suitable for a plug and then wrote:

Quite so and I have terminated T&E into 13A plugs on a very frequent basis but not all the time [I do quite a lot of temporary work]

 

[plugwash]

In my experience if you are going to put a plug on T&E the most basic plugs are best. Those with a simple traditional cord grip and removable pins/terminals. At least for 2.5mm T&E you want to be able to form and terminate the wires before inserting them into the plug

 

[JohnD]

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[MisterBoy]

In my experience if you are going to put a plug on T&E the most basic plugs are best. Those with a simple traditional cord grip and removable pins/terminals. At least for 2.5mm T&E you want to be able to form and terminate the wires before inserting them into the plug

I'm not going to say how many years it was before I even realised you COULD remove the pins. So many plugs as a young guy, spent struggling to bend the stupid wire and get it in place

 

[JohnW2]

I'm not going to say how many years it was before I even realised you COULD remove the pins. So many plugs as a young guy, spent struggling to bend the stupid wire and get it in place

If one thinks back far enough, I'm not at all sure that many of them were removable. However, in recent decades, have you not had the experience of at least the N and E pins actually falling out when you have 'turned it over' with the cover off? - that's how, very many years ago, I discovered that they could be removed!

Kind Regards, John

 

[MisterBoy]

@JohnW2 probably the same here!