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  • #2
    Avns1s
    Registered Users Posts: 3,422 ✭✭✭Avns1s


    ronoc wrote: »


    and Why does this plug have round holes?
    http://img484.imageshack.us/img484/4745/dsc00063dh4.jpg


    any ideas?

    5 Amp lighting socket I would say.

    Is there a prize? ;)


  • #3
    Jayden Little Smallpox
    Posts: 0 ✭ Jayden Little Smallpox


    Butt plugs for really tight arses.


  • #4
    The Real B-man
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 3,731 Mod ✭✭✭✭The Real B-man


    Its a Type D Socket used to be the standard back in the day still used in india third world countrys ya still find them in Hotels etc my grans gaff is full of them :eek:

    http://users.pandora.be/worldstandards/electricity.htm


  • #5
    Fanny Wank
    Registered Users Posts: 1,288 ✭✭✭Fanny Wank


    we used to have round sockets in our house years ago.


  • #6
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 3,621 ✭✭✭[Deleted User]


    Avns1s wrote: »
    5 Amp lighting socket I would say.

    Is there a prize? ;)

    No :)

    What is the point of them? Why not just use normal sockets?


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  • #7
    MagicMarker
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 32,865 ✭✭✭✭MagicMarker


    first pic looks like those things that you take out of a new washing machine, they keep the spinner inside in place so it doesn't break in transit.

    Then again i could be completely wrong.


  • #8
    Pherekydes
    Registered Users Posts: 16,109 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    ronoc wrote: »
    and Why does this plug have round holes?

    any ideas?

    To take a round pin plug.

    Did that ever occur to you?


  • #9
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 3,621 ✭✭✭[Deleted User]


    Slow coach wrote: »
    To take a round pin plug.

    Did that ever occur to you?

    So its for alternative lifestyle electricians?


  • #10
    SQDD
    Closed Accounts Posts: 79 ✭✭SQDD


    It's just a standard, over in canada they have special plugs for washing machines and for tumble driers, it's only Ireland and Uk really that have the regular 3 pin plug you're used to!
    The second picture is screws with rawl plugs over there so they'll stay stuck into what ever they're being screwed into


  • #11
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 3,621 ✭✭✭[Deleted User]


    SQDD wrote: »
    The second picture is screws with rawl plugs over there so they'll stay stuck into what ever they're being screwed into

    They are about 7'' long just for an idea of the scale.


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  • #12
    TJJP
    Registered Users Posts: 1,523 ✭✭✭TJJP


    Avns1s wrote: »
    5 Amp lighting socket I would say.
    The Real B-man wrote: »
    Its a Type D Socket used to be the standard back in the day still used in india third world countrys ya still find them in Hotels etc my grans gaff is full of them

    Avns1s is correct, they are 5 amp lighting sockets, lower rated for lighting. Were all the rage in the 80's (well almost) rarely used now. Were cost saving as thinner cable was needed to install and therefore cheaper in a copper price crisis (80's), all in all pointless though.

    They are not 'type D' though. Type D is 15A and an altogether larger socket...


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