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Old 2nd Sep 2020, 2:16 pm   #72
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Originally Posted by G6Tanuki View Post
I'm sure that in the past some of you have come across 3-pin sockets (either round-pin or 13A) connected to bayonet lampholder-plugs.
When I met my Wife she lived with her Grandparents in a Leeds council house. It had those oddball sockets so beloved of Councils. As plugs were hard to find for some reason, the ones they had were wired to bayonet sockets and various things had bayonet plugs attached. I sourced some plugs and did the sensible thing as soon as practicable. No worse than changing a bulb, but in a dim corner of a room it really did constitute a bodge (of the household wiring variety)
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