On Tue, 4 Apr 2017 09:22:04 +0100
The Natural Philosopher  wrote:

> On 03/04/17 21:27, Folderol wrote:
> > Those blanking plugs are a danger in themselves and should be outlawed.
> > The 'earth' pin easily breaks off in the socket, then leaving live and
neutral
> > exposed.
>
> in 60 years of UK 13A sockets that's something I have never ever seen or
> heard of.

Then you've been very lucky. Having spent many years doing domestic service
work I've seen it a lot. But then again, I've also seen them deliberately
broken off, and inserted so that open wires could be poked in the live and
neutral.

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