Dave,
After doing that little experiment, I'm convinced that our Electrical Regs are barking up the wrong tree here.
I busted open one of them Over-current devices on an imported multi-box that Brian XXXXX a local Inspector and I bought from a local Big Box store here.
Brian managed to get 56A out of the box before it exploded.
{Get 2 Radio Hams in a place like the PoCo workshops, there's bound to be something blown up!}
But all I found was a 240C Micro-temp, hardly good enough for a plastic bodied (appliance?), the spring and button was just for show.
Paul,
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Many of the older 1960s strips were far superior in construction, with a line of individual panel-mount BS1363 sockets fitted into a solid metal enclosure
That could be said of a lot of Electrical products these days, cheap stuff makes more money.
But I don't think we'll be going back to Bakelite switch plates or Lead-Sheathed cables. [Linked Image]