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Went to a house today where nearly all of the non-moulded plugs had neutral/earth reversal.
I do work for Age Concern (or rather the elderly on their books), and this serbian guy rang up to say that some of his appliance plugs were getting "a little warm". Found a combination of loose plug-top connections, loose socket connections and elderly sockets (1951!) You know the type, you plug stuff in and there's no resistance at all....and when it's in it slops around like a ***** in a ****** ******* (leave that bit to your extremely fertile imaginations!)
I'm not sure what the colour code in Yugoslavia was in the 1940's - there probably wasn't one (he came here in 1946) but he is sure getting the conductors muddled up!
I do work for Age Concern (or rather the elderly on their books), and this serbian guy rang up to say that some of his appliance plugs were getting "a little warm". Found a combination of loose plug-top connections, loose socket connections and elderly sockets (1951!) You know the type, you plug stuff in and there's no resistance at all....and when it's in it slops around like a ***** in a ****** ******* (leave that bit to your extremely fertile imaginations!)
I'm not sure what the colour code in Yugoslavia was in the 1940's - there probably wasn't one (he came here in 1946) but he is sure getting the conductors muddled up!