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G4WYW > INFO 26.07.02 13:14l 29 Lines 1078 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
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Subj: Iron in a Light Fitting!
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From: G4WYW@GB7SOU.#48.GBR.EU
To : INFO@WW
Ian, G0TEZ mentions, "People often plugged electric irons into them
even though they were rated at 3A max."
This reminded me of when I was young and my Grandmother would do her
ironing with a 2 pin plug fitted to the electric iron lead which, in
turn, she plugged into a Bayonet Adaptor that plugged into an overhead
light fitting!
Such an adaptor resembled the bayonet, two pronged section of a bulb that
fits into the overhead bulb holder, but made of hard bakelite instead of
brass coated steel. Where the glass envelope of a bulb would normally be,
this was terminated by a two holed female socket.
I recall that this would have been rated at 5 Amps or less.
The upside of this was that the irons' lead would be suspended high up
out of the way. The downside was that a lot of extra strain was being
placed on the ceiling rose and twin flex coming from that to the bayonet
holder and there was no earth!...
73 - Mel, G4WYW @ GB7SOU.#48.GBR.EU
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