told my mum i would replace the plug on a lamp she’s had for 50 years because it has the old-style unsleeved pins.
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told my mum i would replace the plug on a lamp she’s had for 50 years because it has the old-style unsleeved pins. i get it home and holy shit. i actually found one in the wild. incredible
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it seems it has been like this since before she got the lamp in the mid-1970s
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thinking about the 32 A main circuit going through that
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anyway, when you see something like this, it's a sign that someone was cheap enough to not buy a fuse 50 years ago, and/or, there's an intermittent short somewhere in the appliance that kept blowing so they just bodged it. the upshot of all of this is that since it's basically an ornamental thing with an additional lamp sticking out of it, I Am Now Decommissioning The Lamp and it will live out the rest of its life as an inert, non-electrical object
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@jk it always fascinated me that UK plugs have fuses inside them... and that the plugs are big enough to smash someone's head in
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@kwramm @jk well, UK plugs have several safety features:
- fuse
- earth connection
- the sockets have internal covers on the live lines which are opened by pushing the earth pin into the socket
- the active pins have insulation on half the length of the pins so with the plug partially inserted in the socket the still-physically-accessible part of the pin is insulated not metal
- hard and heavy enough to double as a blunt force weapon for home defense -
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Agnieszka R. Turczyńskareplied to josef last edited by
@jk It's non standard. May not be able to sustain 250A, as per following specification.
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