Managed to buy a device that didn't arrive with the unnecessary 3 pin plug protector attached !!!!

And guess what?

The solid square brass pins of a British Standard 3 pin plug appear to have survived intact !!

Maybe it was just an oversight

I'll plug it in tomorrow and do a bit of Dysoning. My neighbours might get upset if I fire it up right now

No evidence of tarnishing or impact damage whatsoever, just hard brass electrically conducting pins that mate with your british standard 3 pin power socket.

I don't know how this might have happened

I'll update you in the morning as to whether the power plug functions successfully without being shipped with it's protective plastic sheath attached.

Fingers crossed.

Wish me luck


Dave

Dave good luck and double fingers crossed!! Access To Birth Control Is A Fundamental Component Of Climate Survival

By Brad Johnson on Feb 10, 2012 at 3:28 pm

Any morally acceptable pathway to prevent catastrophic global warming includes broad access to affordable birth control for the world’s women. The conservative war on birth control is a war on women’s rights, and thus on the rights of us all. Manmade global warming is one of the most troubling symptoms of economic and social injustice around the planet, and the ”countries in the developing world least responsible for the growing emissions are likely to experience the heaviest impact of climate change, with women bearing the greatest toll.” Researchers have found that empowering women to reduce unplanned pregnancies is one of the most cost-effective ways to combat greenhouse pollution, as UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson discussed at the Durban climate conference last December: http://thinkprogress.org/green/2012/02/10/423...imate-survival/?mobile=nc

Did you hear the one about the Seals?

http://www.sci-tech-today.com/story.xhtml?story_id=0220018F25XS

Dave i know but this is a dangerous situation--you could have spent days looking for the pin protector--- “To ensure the safety of young children it is of considerable importance that the contacts of the socket-outlet should be protected by shutters or other like means, or by the inherent design of the socket outlet.”[2] This requirement for a new system of plugs and sockets led to the publishing in 1947 of "British Standard 1363 : 1947 Fused-Plugs and Shuttered Socket-Outlets".[3]---Just think--they are definitely looking out for you--

Gerald

Despite the best Nanny State and inherently safe design concepts, such as having slack in the netural and earth so the live disconnects first if the cable is yanked from the plug.......They are agony when you tread on them

They lie there flat on their backs 3 pins pointing skywards with the earthing pin longer than the rest (So that the appliance is earthed before the live and neutral make contact)

Agony when pitted again a bare sole

I been in some places along the way and the British system of deploying household power is by far the most substantial. In Belgium when you unplug a plug most of the socket seems to follow it. Rarely, if ever, are other countries plugs fused. This is down to UK Ring Main distribution rather than Star from the Fusebox

None are quite so painful to stand on as a BS1363 3 pin plug. Especially in the dark.

Even if they had the pin protectors fitted serious hopping around the room and much cursing is essential to ease the pain I'd provide a link to the science behind this but I'd get nelsoc'ed

Pretty sure absolutely no CO2 is generated by the Dyson (in the near vicinity) and the air it expels is cleaner than when it was first dragged in and whirled around - so they tell me - courtesy of a HEPA filter http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HEPA#Vacuum_cleaners

http://www.cleanairgardening.com/houseplants.html these are the ones you need in your house. I must get The [ex] Mother-in-Law's Tongue

So far our February here in the UK has the distinction of being the coldest since the month I was born back in 1966

I suspect this has peaked for a while at least http://www.theglobalthermometer.com/solaryear.png

Some days all you have left is a sense of humour

Take care

Dave