Swap Single Pole sockets for Double pole Sockets

[darkan9el]

I know I'm resurrecting an old post of mine but I thought it worth doing from a quality/reliability point of view.
A few people commented about the questionable quality of the Volex Sockets but I can tell you that they are still working, still look just as good and I haven't had any trouble with them.

 

[securespark]

Great!

 

[deadshort]

Hmm Volex.
Lovely
Quality




NOT

I think that volex range has crabtree insets !

I bought a dimmer switch in that range and it was crabtree module.

DS

 

[Taylortwocities]

Its all interwired!! Doyle & Tratt = Varilight and IIRC Crabtree badge Doyle & Tratt dimmers as their own.

As for Volex themselves, well, it is now a budget range. Some of my house sockets and switches are Volex, and working just fine.
But they date from the late 70's, when quality was something that could be found in many products made in the UK (with the exception of the motor industry!).
Since then, quality has fallen. Last year, I had the mispleasure of having to add a couple of circuits to a Volex consumer unit, what a pile of poo.

 

[securespark]

Volex, Crabtree Marbo.... all Electrium.

 

[securespark]

Last year, I had the mispleasure of having to add a couple of circuits to a Volex consumer unit, what a pile of poo.

Poolex?

 

[Echo the husky]

I had the mispleasure of having to add a couple of circuits to a Volex consumer unit

Is that the one with no room at all above the MCBs where all the cables terminate, but oodles of it below where only the busbar needs to fit?

 

[Taylortwocities]

That's the one. RCBOs.not!

 

[Echo the husky]

I can't find the photo now, but I have one where someone had cut the plastic rail that holds the N+E bars and pushed them out of the way in order to fit an RCBO!