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Electronpusher0 · 14th Sep 2020, 7:42 am

Back to badly wired plugs.
I bought a rather nice vintage toaster at the car boot, it came complete with a modern mains lead someone had wired up to get it working.
The toaster only uses a 2 core cable - no earth and exposed filaments - The modern cable was made up using 3 core cable, in the plug the redundant Earth wire is in danger of touching the line connector and at the other end the cut off Earth wire was poking out of the connector and could easily be touched.

All in all a lethal piece of kit.

Peter

14th Sep 2020, 7:42 am	#178
Electronpusher0 Nonode Join Date: Jun 2016 Location: Bognor Regis, West Sussex, UK. Posts: 2,300	Re: Bodges Back to badly wired plugs. I bought a rather nice vintage toaster at the car boot, it came complete with a modern mains lead someone had wired up to get it working. The toaster only uses a 2 core cable - no earth and exposed filaments - The modern cable was made up using 3 core cable, in the plug the redundant Earth wire is in danger of touching the line connector and at the other end the cut off Earth wire was poking out of the connector and could easily be touched. All in all a lethal piece of kit. Peter Attached Thumbnails