LMFAO !!!!!!!!!!!!!! with the exception of 1 or 2...... you guys top the scales of nastiness!
It just shows that you had no intention of being helpful from the start. Especially you steptoe - if anyone was going to be a murderer it appears it was going to be you with your intentionally misleading and dangerous instruction in your post. Which of course I saw straight through lol!
The job took 20 mins max. Most of it finding the bits n pieces. - and definitely less time than to write this! Very simple, very safe and very successful!
What drama queens you are!!
1. make a ring out of the trailing socket by using a spring loaded connector block with one end in an adjacent wall socket and the other end in one of the trailing sockets. close the cover to make the circuit. Simple and safe and been used like this for years before Europe made big girls blouses out you all!
2. unplug existing wall socket . Immediately plug into single socket with backbox to insulate.
3. Move insulated 3 pin plug and socket to new location and immediately disconnect the single socket and back box and insert into the new wall socket.
4. lift the isolation cover on the spring loaded connection block, unplug the 3pin plug from the training socket, unplug from the old wall socket. A two-pole switch could have been used as well if the flip top wasn't available. Again total safe and isolated from shocks.
Job done! Easy, safe, quick, no drama!
You guys are just too much lol! No widow maker cables here!
I suppose some thanks are in order to you all really because without your "OMG he's bringing the end of the world" - "you're doing somethig sooo outrageous mr beany" comments I would probably not have isolated the plug when I moved it over and that was a sensible thing to do on my part.
If you guys hadn't been so up ur own a*ses then maybe you could have pointed me in that safe direction instead of taking the p*ss out of a legitimate question and requirement. btw the legitimacy is for me to decide not you. Why I wanted to do it should have been no concern to you. What I wanted to do was not rocket science, not illegal and not unsafe if done properly as i did in the end.
Granted my initial plan was more dangerous than it needed to be and someone helpful with a modicum of knowledge about the subject could have suggested something similar to what I did. That would have helped me. That's why I asked the question. Not to be told I'm an idiot, laughed at and abused. But for someone to come up with a safer solution to a challenge I was facing.
Like I said, in a round about way you led me to a different implementation which was much safer and effective but sadly that was not because you guys are "salt of the earth" and helpful. More that I laughed so much at your narrow-minded "this isn't in my training manual" jobsworth attitude that a more creative solution just jumped out at me.
I'm sure I'll use you monkies again sometime when I fancy a kick in the head for no apparent reason.
Thank you sirs!
PS
MY above comments do not apply to Blue Duck and slipshod & slapdash who's comments were not abusive and although not strictly speaking greatly helpful were I believe made with good intent.
No so with the rest of you!
