Old 2 amp small round pin plug help!

[Simon_]

I've never come across this before, but I've just seen in a house a flat screen tv on a wall with the usual removable mains cable but the plug has been chopped off to fit an old 2A small plug with round pins on and into an a single round pin socket. Surely this isn't safe to run the tv on? Can it be replaced with a standard socket to run the correct mains cable?

 

[telectrix]

You could get her a gas powered one if you do. I heard the old woman talking about one on Steve Wright yesterday.

What? you can get radio 2 in Cardiff now???? next thing is you'll get television

 

[Engineer54]

come on. bet you can't wait to use that lead sheathed twin you've got stashed away in the shed.

Don't knock it, ....that stuff dresses up really nice, perfect for surface work, with buckle clips...

 

[telectrix]

mmm took some outlast year. it was installed 1926. only fault was the vir insulation had perished at the ends. tinplate JBs with the cable clamps providing cpc continuity through the JBs.

 

[Engineer54]

mmm took some outlast year. it was installed 1926. only fault was the vir insulation had perished at the ends. tinplate JBs with the cable clamps providing cpc continuity through the JBs.

Not bad then, for nearly 85 years. ...I've seen many first class lead surface work in industrial type outbuilding installations.

I bet that the insulation further down the cable was almost in perfect condition too, in that wiring you took down last year.... :detective:

 

[Knobhead]

A while back a company a worked for was replacing two 1940’s open slate MCC panels with over 100 drives on each. They had a lot of VIR SWA’s running out in to plant. Samples of the cables were sent to BICC as it was then for testing, because the plant was always cool and the cables over sized they told us to leave them be. Saved a fortune.

As for 2A sockets I’ve used them myself for table and standard lamps. Stopped the wife blowing the dimmer units up plugging the Hoover in them.

 

[Geordie Spark]

What? you can get radio 2 in Cardiff now???? next thing is you'll get television

.................. followed by ..... FLUSHING LAVVIES !!!!

 

[Des 56]

What? you can get radio 2 in Cardiff now???? next thing is you'll get television

In the valleys,we look to Cardiff to show us whats possible for us in the next 20 years, so dont knock it tel
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