That is logical, and reasonable, but ...
... is neither logical nor reasonable. That would be like ('lazily') shortening 'pipe socket' to 'pipe', or 'eye socket' to 'eye' - either of which would be pretty ridiculous
Kind Regards, John
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Kind Regards, John
John just has.
As a matter of interest, was that when you had a different persona? Chunky19 has only posted 6 messages, and none of the other five has anything to do with this topic.
Kind Regards, John
Thanks for clarifying - that's not really what I thought 'here' meant
I don't really understand what you are apologising for - what have other forums I may have visited got to do with anything?
Kind Regards, John
Shan't! So there.
Everyone really does know that a 'plug' mates with a device known as a 'flex'.
The one I unscrew to drain oil from the sump of my car's engine doesn't (at least, not when I'm looking)
Kind Regards, John
So basically you don't have a clue what you're talking about.
Nor this: https://www.tlc-direct.co.uk/Produc...B8TtiNOsKGO70Ht4KC_alv9wOe_jUEDkaAry_EALw_wcBThe one I unscrew to drain oil from the sump of my car's engine doesn't (at least, not when I'm looking)
Kind Regards, John
I must say that I find it fairly 'inappropriate' ('wrong') to refer to a static ('mounted') 'male' inlet connector as a plug - so would tend to refer to it simply as an 'inlet connector'.
In that sense I suppose I'm sort-of agreeing with charliegolf - in that I intuitively/subconsciously think of a 'plug' as something 'trailing', connected to flex, which I 'plug into' something static.
Kind Regards, |John
I call them plug tops. That's what they were and are frequently called in the trade.
Why it's called a plug top, I don't know - but it's an old term.
The only possible theory I can come up with at the moment is that the very old wooden plugs of 100 years or so were shaped like a top, or a spinning top. They were round, and a had a knob as a handle, so very much like a spinning top or top.
Possibly a name that never went away.
Why it's called a plug top, I don't know - but it's an old term.
The only possible theory I can come up with at the moment is that the very old wooden plugs of 100 years or so were shaped like a top, or a spinning top. They were round, and a had a knob as a handle, so very much like a spinning top or top.
Possibly a name that never went away.
In my experience over the years, the only people who used the name 'plug top' were handymen who felt that they needed to show their superiority by using a (technical) name different from everyone else. A kind of inferiority complex. Of course these days the internet encourages the spread of bad usage. I note with pleasure that at least one respected English dictionary has never come across the *******ised term.
So on that basis, do I take it you would describe these as an 'outlet connector' and not a socket?
Further to your statement, would a male connector coupled with something non static such as this
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Nothing to do with it being Half of a Plug.
A socket is useless if you have nothing to insert into it,
Therefore to "Top off something", make it complete, hence "Plugtop"
A socket is useless if you have nothing to insert into it,
Therefore to "Top off something", make it complete, hence "Plugtop"
accordingly does it follow that a plugtop is useless if you have nothing to insert it into,
Therefore to "Bottom off something", make it complete, hence "Plugbottom"?
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