Removed Socket - Connections

[Ampimpaired]

Thanks guys, I will try and trace the cable back up above the ceiling, if I find a decent void space above I will move the two Junction boxes into it and run new lengths of cable to my first new socket, failing that I will keep tracing it back to the next socket or the CU.

Thanks for all your help! (although I still think there should be a purpose designed piece of kit for safely joining a hidden or buried cable!!!)

Phil
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P.s, yes there was already a box in the wall, ideally I did not want a blanking plate but I would have done that if I had too, problem is a 20amp JB will fit in a double metal box but a 30 will not - and I had 2 of them to go in! This was b4 crimping was mentioned, but that again brings me back to there being a lack of kit for this situation, a replacement metal box with connectors in it or a blanking unit with terminal connections on the back of it would have made the job so much easier!!

Looking back it may have been best to leave a double socket there - halfway up my wall!

Cheers again!

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please note 10a

 

[Agile]

There is or at least was an MK three terminal in line three terminal brown connection strip which looked like 30A and which could fit inside a 25 mm box.

I have not seen one for a while but would have thought they are still available.

Tony

 

[securespark]

clush......mout......wallpaprered.....cyt......qall...sitck....fluhed

breezer has been on them again...!!

 

[breezer]

i blame my keyboard, i type the correct letters, but they come out in the wrong order, or not at all

 

[Ampimpaired]

bet his invoices look the same!

 

[kai]

What is wrong in using 30amp Choc-blocks in joining a 30amp Ring Main, inside an Earthed Steel Box, with a white plastic Blanking Plate Cover on top?

 

[breezer]

nothing, but crimps are better.

but poster wants to extend cable, less or same number of boxes, not more

 

[Agile]

I have just been looking at the MK web site and the connector I was describing seems to have been ceased.

The current equivalent is apparently the 1130.

This is a pretty useless item for most practical purposes as its a rectangular surface mount item and not size compatible with metal boxes. It seems to have little application because it does nothing more than the round 30A connection box.

The one I refered to was a stand alone connector which could go inside a metal or plastic surface box and gave a good quality connection using the same wide screws and in the round box.

Tony Glazier