Replacing a plug!!!!

[cress]

Hi all,

I have just dicovered that the black and decker drill i have been using has a 3 pin plug adaptor on it as the original fitting is a two pin plug...
Anyways i dropped the drill on the plug which ripped it off the wall and revealed this...

My question is, can i replace the two pin with a proper 3 pin plug..??
The wires inside the cable are brown and blue???

thanks in advance for your help

 

[rebuke]

This is an increasingly common thing to see now, equipment that's manufactured for europe is given a european plug, and then they just pop an adapter on the end for the UK market.

You should be fine wiring a normal UK plug on to the end, with the obvious colour coding (brown = live, blue = neutral). Make sure you put an appropriate fuse in the plug (there should have been one in the adapter so you can probably just carry that over).

 

[JACKC]

your B & D is probably double insulated so doesn't require an earth wire, should be a symbol on the label with a square within a square to confirm this.

 

[cress]

Thanks..i'll pop a plug on then...

It did contain a 5amp fuse in the adaptor..

Should I replace with 5amp fuse or should i use a 13amp fuse....

 

[rebuke]

5A should be correct, as long as you don't have some ridiculously powerful drill (i.e. anything above about 1.1kW) - if it's a standard ~650W or whatever then it'll be fine...