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Originally Posted by Nickthedentist
You may well laugh, but there was an annoying gang of old men who used go to all the jumble sales in Wimbledon at the time I found the telly (late 1980s) buying up broken electrical gear, just to get cheap 13A plugs. If it didn't have a plug, they wouldn't touch it  |
OK. Going off topic for a second. That doesn't make sense.
I can understand skip-diving to cut the re-wireable plugs off discarded appliances. I might do that if I were on some sort of budget also.
But BUYING broken electrical gear just to get the plug? A 13-amp plug costs anywhere from a quid-and-change to two pounds for a good MK-brand type; to a few pence for those cheap-tat imported jobbies (at least what I've seen on the web).
Even a broken TV set would cost more than a few pence, no?
