PLEASE HELP PLUG FOUND IN CHIMNEY BREAST?????

[binky]

not seen an electric clock point for years! 

 

[kerching]

not seen an electric clock point for years! 

M mate has just bought a new house (1960 build)

clock,connector in every room....even used to connect fans in bathrooms, toilets and kitchen.  eBay beckons

 

[Geoff1946]

not seen an electric clock point for years! 

When I bought my first old house, in 1972 I found a number of two pin outlets still in place, though by then isolated.

There were 15amp ones, 5amp ones and oddly, clock connectors at the side of each 5 amp one.

On examination the clock connectors had been used as fuses, i.e. the plug shorted, for the 5amp outlet, wired as a spur from a nearby 15.

 

[Evans Electric]

Yes  , long time since I fitted a clock connector  .      We have done a few  new jobs  using  the small 5A   X 3 pin  sockets  ,  for lampshade things  , switched from the  wall , on the lighting circuit . 

 

[Geoff1946]

Why 5 amp, rather than the 2 amp ones which were designed for that job?

 

[Evans Electric]

They were indeed  2 amp  Geoff   not 5A     Its an age thing .      :C  

 

[kerching]

And if my rapidly failing memory serves me correctly MK made a variant of the round 5A 3 pin that had a fuse inside it?

 

[Geoff1946]

SPAM!

 

[kerching]

Luckily, my chimney in Wilmington doesn't have a plug socket. I hope you can resolve this problem soon, dude. 

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