Back box earthing

[Foxy787]

Probably a bit of a noddy question but I am bringing my TV aerial cable into the house which I have already done. Now I want to fit a TV socket to the wall to tidy it all up.

I have purchased a metal back box with a plastic TV coaxial faceplate.

On the metal back box there is an adjustable lug for an earth. Do I need to install and earth from back box to faceplate or should it be fine without?

If so can I use any wire as an earth?

 

[richy3333]

that's nothing. i had an Asian lady customer name Alka. sent her a text and the phone called her Alka Seltzer.

Bet she was fizzing about that mistake!

 

[pirate]

Ye cannae throw yer jelly pieces frae a twenty storey flat...

 

[GeorgeCooke]

Here is some pics of socket and back box

That coax socket is useless as it is not screened. Bin it or take it back and buy a screened one.

Like this:

screened coax socket

 

[littlespark]

Ye cannae throw yer jelly pieces frae a twenty storey flat...

The original lyrics did not mention the jelly... it was just pieces....

From the same composers as “you cannae shove yer granny aff a bus”

 

[pirate]

My bad...as the youngsters say!
but, for accuracy...ye actually can shove yer granny aff a bus...however I would not condone this...apparently this is rather non-PC...IIRC, it was envisioned that you could indeed shove your Granny off the bus, but not your mammie's mammie, but rather yer daddie's mammie...
I do feel that this distinction is unlikely to receive judicial approval in these enlightened times ...

 

[ipf]

My bad...as the youngsters say!
but, for accuracy...ye actually can shove yer granny aff a bus...however I would not condone this...apparently this is rather non-PC...IIRC, it was envisioned that you could indeed shove your Granny off the bus, but not your mammie's mammie, but rather yer daddie's mammie...
I do feel that this distinction is unlikely to receive judicial approval in these enlightened times ...

….Time for you to walk the bleedin' plank...…….

 

[pirate]

agreed!

Walking that way now...




SPLASH!