Hoover Turbopower U2332
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nice vac Emma
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Vacuumlover, I thought maybe not - it was such a long time ago when it all became a requirement for sleeved pins. With the style of plug you have on your cleaner, it is possible for anyone who unplugs it to touch the pins as it is unplugged. This isn't quite the probelm when it is plugged into a standard UK wall socket, but smaller surface mounted sockets do exist, as do of course adaptors and extention leads. One has to take great care when plugging and unplugging into these as the pins of the plug sit much closer to the edges of the socket area, thus can be touched much more easily.
With sleeved pins, only the insulated section would even be exposed if the remainder was sufficiently deep enough into the socket for the pins to still be live.
Another problem it solved - when UK appliances were not supplied with plugs, it was not uncommon (though highly dangerous) to find people were using the appliance by wrapping the bear wires around the pins of a plug attached to something else, and plugging in. The reasons for this were two-fold; either through laziness / an inibility to fit a plug, or because in days gone by when homes had more than one style of plug & socket an portable appliance was needed to be used in several different locations, thus one plug would not fit in all sockets. We really don't know how lucky we are with our wiring standards compared to how it was only a matter of years ago!
With sleeved pins, only the insulated section would even be exposed if the remainder was sufficiently deep enough into the socket for the pins to still be live.
Another problem it solved - when UK appliances were not supplied with plugs, it was not uncommon (though highly dangerous) to find people were using the appliance by wrapping the bear wires around the pins of a plug attached to something else, and plugging in. The reasons for this were two-fold; either through laziness / an inibility to fit a plug, or because in days gone by when homes had more than one style of plug & socket an portable appliance was needed to be used in several different locations, thus one plug would not fit in all sockets. We really don't know how lucky we are with our wiring standards compared to how it was only a matter of years ago!
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i have
seen some atrocious plug arrangements over the years indeed my own parents would regularly poke the bare ends of cables into sockets and secure them with a couple of match sticks and my dad would constantly be taking a plug off one thing to put on another and yet sometimes i wonder have we really progressed that much with our trailing bar sockets .I was in a house last week that had one of these in the kitchen with a washing machine .a toaster and an electric kettle and a microwave all plugged into it .I had been called out to the brand new washer the customer said it was blowing fuses all the time [i wonder why]trying to explain to this person that there was nothing wrong with the washer [and everything wrong with the plug arrangement ]was like trying to knit treacle .the odd thing was the house had recently been rewired and there were sockets everywhere so after some rearranging i managed to convince the customer that everything would be OK so back to what i said earlier have we really progressed from the old three way adapter at least you could only put three plugs into one of them and you didn't have that yard or so of flex to contend with
seen some atrocious plug arrangements over the years indeed my own parents would regularly poke the bare ends of cables into sockets and secure them with a couple of match sticks and my dad would constantly be taking a plug off one thing to put on another and yet sometimes i wonder have we really progressed that much with our trailing bar sockets .I was in a house last week that had one of these in the kitchen with a washing machine .a toaster and an electric kettle and a microwave all plugged into it .I had been called out to the brand new washer the customer said it was blowing fuses all the time [i wonder why]trying to explain to this person that there was nothing wrong with the washer [and everything wrong with the plug arrangement ]was like trying to knit treacle .the odd thing was the house had recently been rewired and there were sockets everywhere so after some rearranging i managed to convince the customer that everything would be OK so back to what i said earlier have we really progressed from the old three way adapter at least you could only put three plugs into one of them and you didn't have that yard or so of flex to contend with
