Socket Brands

[MrBenn]

I was just wondering as i am looking at socket brands, which branding you normally use?

the company i work for normally use mk logic, and never had a problem with the 1000 odd that ive connected

whats your prefrence? or had any problems with other brands?

 

[NozSpark]

Knightsbridge have to be the worst of the worst .... IMHO

I use Click Mode now,,, very well made and are a fair bit cheaper than MK

 

[Steve3948]

MK Twin Socket £2.40 how much cheaper do you want them to be  :innocent

 

[batty]

You haven't fitted many MK three gang sockets then.

 

[samson337]

MK to, but if I'm honest marbro are a good cheep option

 

[steptoe]

Knightsbridge have to be the worst of the worst .... IMHO

I use Click Mode now,,, very well made and are a fair bit cheaper than MK

deffo, a builder I work for sometimes has those,  :shakehead

terrible,

and in my opinion, MK arent much better,

 

[Steve3948]

Never had a problem with MK to be honest, cannot remember that last faulty unit it was that long ago.

Tried almost all other brands and it always boils down to the range, I hate mixing because a manufacturer does not do a full grid range for instance.

Currently installing Forbes & Lomax Invisible range and hate it, but clients love it.

 

[steptoe]

anyone remember the RPP [i think] range, I think they were CEF own brand,

total and utter rubbish!!!!!!!

little coloured terminals that struggled to get one 2.5 into,,,,,  :shakehead

 

[Steve3948]

Yeah Redditch Plastic Products made by CEF at their factory.

Got invited there for the day many years back, they owned the whole industrial estate, had a look at the cable making also, but the RPP was utter rubbish.

 

[NozSpark]

TBH I used to quite like the coloured terminals on the RPP double sockets... 2 separate terminals for each conductor!

However the face plates were quite thin

 

[steptoe]

TBH I used to quite like the coloured terminals on the RPP double sockets... 2 separate terminals for each conductor!

However the face plates were quite thin

yer,

unless you had a spur off, or a 4mm radial!!!  headbang

 

[NozSpark]

What were you doing that you can't get 4mm in them???????.. I never had a problem

 

[M107]

I'm currently using BG Nexus.

 

[steptoe]

FFS, the ones we got barely took a 2.5!!!!

maybe Im just useless,?  :C

 

[Zeespark]

Hager Sollysta, enough said

Andy Guinness

 

[SLIPSHOD & SLAPDASH]

The Marbo cheepie range from Screwups seem very  good to me. I buy the box of 30. The worst ever which I refused to fit were the ones from Toolstation, I think CEO or CED  brand ?

I hate MK now, overpriced . I don't like the  angle of the terminals and also find the screws binding most the time.

 

[sprocketflup]

Cant remember which make it is, but I used some a while back that came out of the box with the terminals screwed up so tight, it was a job in itself just to get them undone without damaging them

Would probs have saved a days work just there if they came out the packet already undone

 

[Theorysparky]

toolstation  individual sockets are great,,,,,

but its the contractor multipack of 5 which is total pants different type and cheap

 

[m4tty]

toolstation  individual sockets are great,,,,,

but its the contractor multipack of 5 which is total pants different type and cheap

+1 the 5 pack is utter poo. I quite like Knightsbridge lol why do you hate them nozzer ?

 

[steptoe]

The one thing Id say about knightsbridge is that the terminals are great on them,

I get them supplied on some council work I do, but they are cheap and nasty,

I deffo wouldnt use them on my on jobs.