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Post by naughtyfox on Apr 22, 2018 14:03:40 GMT
Are these plugs hard to get hold of? I need one for a new light that is to go above our cooker in the kitchen. It will get plugged into the socket the fridge uses - we hardly ever use the fridge anyway but even so I don't want to have to pinch the plug off the fridge. If you find one (if they are rare?), perhaps you could buy one for us and post it and I can repay you? Wikipedia states the 2 amp plugs look different from these - this shape should be 5 amp. Either will do for a little LED light (I guess!?). It's for 12 volt electricity anyway.
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Post by deadly on Apr 22, 2018 14:07:49 GMT
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Post by naughtyfox on Apr 22, 2018 14:17:36 GMT
Thanks, deadly, I will cancel my request for help and turn to Amazon - didn't think of Amazon. We have looked for them in chandleries (where we bought out first three plugs) but are usually met with a blank stare.
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Post by deadly on Apr 22, 2018 14:27:41 GMT
I'll confess to being a "plug geek", I have a collection of rare and obscure mains connectors which my old boss started from his radio shop in the 1950s. There's probably a couple of 2a round pin in the box somewhere, but they're likely to be ancient bakelite ones. If you'd wanted a 5A or 15A I'd be offering to send you one free, got literally dozens.
by the way, I didn't "think" of Amazon either, just typed "2a round pin" into google and it gave me Amazon and CPC/Farnell as first results. Farnell is a pain to deal with as public unless you're in Leeds and can attend the trade counter, even then I seem to recall it's a £5 + vat minimum order.
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Post by Andyberg on Apr 22, 2018 14:50:40 GMT
Probably all made in China nowadays👍
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Post by deadly on Apr 22, 2018 16:34:51 GMT
Probably all made in China nowadays👍 Definitely all made in China, I can confirm that for the brand stocked by Amazon and the 3 brands stocked by Farnell. There is one obscure "security" variant of the 13A rectangular pin plug which is still UK made, occasionally found in computer server rooms and hospitals to distinguish stabilised power from ordinary mains, and was used in a prison during the 1990s to stop inmates introducing their own equipment. As far as I know all others are now Chinese with the exception of some of the Clipsal stuff used in caravans. The socket in the original picture might be a Clipsal judging by its styling, in which case it just might be Australian made. ok, enough geeking out on mains connectors, I should stop before everyone falls asleep.
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Post by thebfg on Apr 22, 2018 16:53:53 GMT
Pretty sure I had some of those in my shed on wheels.
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Post by naughtyfox on Apr 22, 2018 17:33:20 GMT
Probably all made in China nowadays👍 I remember vaguely asking about MK plugs/sockets on Canalworld, perhaps 3 years ago and was told they are now Made in the People's Republic of Crap. They were a good make in 1986 when I renewed all the sockets in our new house. Bear in mind this is our first boat, and I don't think I have seen plugs like that before. As I said, you go to a chandlery asking for such, having bought the previous three in a chandlery, and they look at you as if you must have found the previous three on Another Planet. We've had the same experience with weed hatch tape - chandlery people looking at us as if we've made it up.
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Post by JohnV on Apr 22, 2018 19:19:10 GMT
Probably all made in China nowadays👍 I remember vaguely asking about MK plugs/sockets on Canalworld, perhaps 3 years ago and was told they are now Made in the People's Republic of Crap. They were a good make in 1986 when I renewed all the sockets in our new house. Bear in mind this is our first boat, and I don't think I have seen plugs like that before. As I said, you go to a chandlery asking for such, having bought the previous three in a chandlery, and they look at you as if you must have found the previous three on Another Planet. We've had the same experience with weed hatch tape - chandlery people looking at us as if we've made it up. B&G of Telford manufacture the old round 3 pin 2 amp plug and socket, there are still some electrical wholesalers who stock their range. eta I think I might have one in my stores but I can't look until tomorrow. will pm you if I find one
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Post by naughtyfox on Apr 22, 2018 20:23:34 GMT
Thanks John - if not, I can get one via Amazon. I have no idea are these things 'old' or are these plugs & sockets still 'nowadays'. We have 3 on our boat - one for the fridge (which I'll use for the new light - and we can plug in the fridge when we're on the move and not using the light) and there are 2 by the head end of our bed which I'll use for two new bedside lamps.
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Post by Gone on Apr 22, 2018 21:10:55 GMT
Lots on eBay as well, so should be able to get one within a couple of days
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Post by Mr Stabby on Apr 22, 2018 21:58:46 GMT
We had plugs like that in my house when I was a kid. I vaguely seem to remember that the live pin was actually a screw-in fuse.
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Post by patty on Apr 23, 2018 4:49:18 GMT
We had plugs like that in my house when I was a kid. I vaguely seem to remember that the live pin was actually a screw-in fuse. First house we brought in Scotland only had these 3 pin round plugs, my dad came up and changed the lot.
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Post by naughtyfox on Apr 23, 2018 6:45:42 GMT
Knowing nuffin' about boat electrics, I assume this is what everybody has for things that need to be plugged in to the 12v system? We have 3 sockets like this - 2 up front by the cratch wall, 1 in the kitchen. We also have three double-sockets for the 240v system, for when we can get shore power, but that's a completely different circuit.
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Post by Mr Stabby on Apr 23, 2018 7:19:09 GMT
Knowing nuffin' about boat electrics, I assume this is what everybody has for things that need to be plugged in to the 12v system? We have 3 sockets like this - 2 up front by the cratch wall, 1 in the kitchen. We also have three double-sockets for the 240v system, for when we can get shore power, but that's a completely different circuit. I don't know about other boats but on my boat the 12v fridge is hard-wired using a chocolate box connector, and the 12v sockets are car cigarette lighter types. I would imagine that is more common than using three-pin mains sockets and plugs, also I think an electrician would be fairly horrified by it.
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