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   From: charles@charleshope.demon.co.uk   
      
   In article <9osdhoF80aU1@mid.individual.net>, David Looser   
    wrote:   
      
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   > BTW did anyone here ever come across the alternative design for a UK   
   > fused plug? I only met one once, it had round pins and looked fairly   
   > similar to the old 15A plug, but the live pin *was* the fuse. The fuse   
   > had a threaded stud on one end and simply screwed into the face of the   
   > plug to form the live pin. I guess it was a different designer's take on   
   > the same design brief that lead to the BS1361 plug.  At least if we had   
   > gone with that design it would have been much harder to bypass the fuse!   
      
   that was the one made by D&S.  It was only the size of an old 5 A plug.   
   the BBC used them for "technical supplies" - to stop cleaners plugging   
   vacuum cleaner in - amongst other things.  They were replaced by ones made   
   by Walsall which look like a standard 13A plug - at a first glance - and   
   then you see the pins are rotated by 90°.  There was also anthor one which   
   the NSHEB adopted originally - about tehn size of a 15A plug with a round   
   earth pin and rectangular ones for the live & neutral.   
      
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