The MK Safety plug
Discussion
Plugs are not the most interesting subjects and most people won't give them a second thought but I'm referring to this :
By my reckoning 30+ years old now and still a great plug. At one point it was used by Granada TV as their plug of choice admittedly with a Granada Logo on it (I still have 2 of those bad boy variants)as ell as every device in the kitchen having the standard MK safety plug attached to it
It might be pricey now but those secure screw down terminals and flexible cable clip makes it worthwhile
Thank you
By my reckoning 30+ years old now and still a great plug. At one point it was used by Granada TV as their plug of choice admittedly with a Granada Logo on it (I still have 2 of those bad boy variants)as ell as every device in the kitchen having the standard MK safety plug attached to it
It might be pricey now but those secure screw down terminals and flexible cable clip makes it worthwhile
Thank you
Also - please look at this for dangerous non-complying plug - they have a fake CE marking, but it doesn't make them safe.
http://www.nickhill.co.uk/unfused_plugs_in_uk_deli...
http://www.nickhill.co.uk/unfused_plugs_in_uk_deli...
Alucidnation said:
The MK plugs are, in my opinion, crap, just like the rest of their product line up is nowadays.
Poor quality assembly and materials.
I have stockpiled a quantity of MK plugs that are from the early 90s. I currently have 18 but I also have just won a further 10 on e bay. These have been cut off appliances found in an older persons home. I don't mean that the older person will wake up and find that they were burgled in the night and someone stole their plugs . It looks like the older person has perhaps passed on or moved into a care home. The pictures in the description show a variety of flexes attached to them including some of the cloth type that were in use years ago. I am also led to believe that they contain a variety of different fuses. I am looking forward to removing and standardising the fuses with 13Amp variants. Obviously I will then install a 3 Amp or 5 Amp on a plug by plug basis.Poor quality assembly and materials.
It may well be that the quality has altered but when I see some of the rubbish being sold as plugs these days it fills me with considerable angst.
Edited by anonymous-user on Wednesday 7th December 10:00
Very clever design from the sleeved 'power' pins, to the earth pin that is longer and disconnects last and opens the shutter to the L and N pins.
Plus the slight shoulders that stop you from putting your fingers round the plug to make any contact.
I also like this plug as it allow you to finger tighten the screw thread as well.
Yes, all in a very clever design.
But like people say it's all now made in China for a penny using poor quality materials. I have seen some really poorly plug fitting and have many times re-wired old stuff that has the inner wires hanging out of the plug and the cord grip starting to eat into them. But on the whole it gave some satisfaction putting your own plug onto an appliance.
Wasn't it 'That's Life' that helped bring in the new legislation into all new products having a fitted plug?
Plus the slight shoulders that stop you from putting your fingers round the plug to make any contact.
I also like this plug as it allow you to finger tighten the screw thread as well.
Yes, all in a very clever design.
But like people say it's all now made in China for a penny using poor quality materials. I have seen some really poorly plug fitting and have many times re-wired old stuff that has the inner wires hanging out of the plug and the cord grip starting to eat into them. But on the whole it gave some satisfaction putting your own plug onto an appliance.
Wasn't it 'That's Life' that helped bring in the new legislation into all new products having a fitted plug?
Paul Drawmer said:
Also - please look at this for dangerous non-complying plug - they have a fake CE marking, but it doesn't make them safe.
http://www.nickhill.co.uk/unfused_plugs_in_uk_deli...
Them things are everywhere. Mostly come with chargers for toys and other electronic bits of kit.http://www.nickhill.co.uk/unfused_plugs_in_uk_deli...
Cut them off and bin them immediately.
There exists a patent for a plug that interrogates the load before it allows current to flow. If the load is outside the documented parameters for a human body: resistance, capacitance, etc., it will connect. However if the load it finds could be a human body it remains open circuit. I forget exactly which company patented this except that I seem to recall it is Swedish (surprise!). An Israeli guy came to the company I worked for in the late 1980s trying to sell us this idea as his own, together with a 'safety' light socket that will not deliver mains to an enquiring finger and only switched the power on to the pins if a lamp bayonet is inserted. This, too, is already patented but this time by a UK outfit.
To my knowledge neither invention has swept an astonished world off its collective feet. Cost don't you know..
To my knowledge neither invention has swept an astonished world off its collective feet. Cost don't you know..
mybrainhurts said:
I grew up with the round pin plugs.
Once touched a pin as I was pulling it out.
Never knew flying lessons were so easy. I think I almost made it across the room...
So was I. Even in the 90s my parents still had round pin plugs.Once touched a pin as I was pulling it out.
Never knew flying lessons were so easy. I think I almost made it across the room...
Seems to have returned in the world on theatre. 15 amp I think.
Morningside said:
mybrainhurts said:
I grew up with the round pin plugs.
Once touched a pin as I was pulling it out.
Never knew flying lessons were so easy. I think I almost made it across the room...
So was I. Even in the 90s my parents still had round pin plugs.Once touched a pin as I was pulling it out.
Never knew flying lessons were so easy. I think I almost made it across the room...
Seems to have returned in the world on theatre. 15 amp I think.
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