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Old 26th Jul 2021, 4:39 pm   #15
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Default Re: Faulty mains plug?

When I was at university in Birmingham in the 1990s, there were always loads of pristine MK Toughplugs to be salvaged off scrapped medical equipment in the (QE) hospital skips.

The reason for their fitment to everything, apparently, was that hospital policy dictated that moulded-on plugs were unreliable and couldn't be visually inspected internally, so they had to be chopped off and replaced with a "traditional" plug.

How daft, I thought! Moulded plugs never go wrong! I also assumed that the wires would have been soldered to the terminals. But this forum has taught me otherwise.

Either way, 25 years later, I'm still using (and re-using) the plugs I salvaged, many with "Hospital Property" embossed into their tops.
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