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The fella who fitted that,is more concerned about who moved his jigsaw,in the common room...
 
Seems to be an increasing number of plug pins burning recently , even on kettles. Must be more rubbish mains plugs being turned out.

Coincidentally, only yesterday I noticed the flex was worryingly warm after one boil at the grip of our new kettle's moulded plug and the neutral pin was hot. 1mm2 flex and 2.5kW element. Not the socket - same heating problem wherever I plugged it in. Cut it off for a wired plug.
 
I had similar last week with a Bosch washing machine. approximately 2 1/2 years old. used pretty much daily. Had burning and melted socket/plug on the live terminal. the socket was fine on the rear but the terminal inside was completely melted and blackened

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Oh look, this time it's the live connection that has failed...
 
Coincidentally, only yesterday I noticed the flex was worryingly warm after one boil at the grip of our new kettle's moulded plug and the neutral pin was hot. 1mm2 flex and 2.5kW element. Not the socket - same heating problem wherever I plugged it in. Cut it off for a wired plug.
So I'm thinking what does my photo background BYB say on this? The rating of 1mm flex from Table 4F3A is 10A so 2.4kW at 240V. Hmm. So what's my kettle then? Base says 3kW at 240V so 12.5A - also supplied with 1mm. No signs of distress yet, except in me. I'll check it with clamp meter - hopefully they are Chinese Watts :) .
 
No paid jobs today, so results were that current measured from 12.1 to 12.3A, depending on clamp meter positioning (well, nobody's perfect) and 233V. The pic shows an happy accidental av of 12.19A flowing through the 10A BYB rated 1mm flex, giving about 2.8kW of Tea Power.

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never had a problem with our kettle:
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or the washing machine:
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I really like your upright washing machine
 

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