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Sven:

I never said Italian plugs were easy to wire

I find most schuko rewirable plugs that I've come across horrible to wire compared to UK ones. But then again UK rewirable plugs are huge.


Inside a normal Irish IS401 (BS1363) plug, fused at 13A.


BS546 15A rewirable.. so much space you could park a small car inside!




(this gives you an idea of the size of these things ... look at the cable entering at the bottom in comparision to the plug size!)


Note this plug pre-dates sheathed pins and would be illegal thesedays.



and a diagram of BS1363



[This message has been edited by djk (edited 10-31-2003).]