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[YouTube]: American is impressed by sensible British mains plug design
themadhippy:
For all you lovers of the uk plugs, a question.Do you prefer the Mk loop it around the terminal or the more common poke the wire through the hole ? For me ,if im not paying its mk, yea there a bit more fiddly to get a neat job with no stray strands poking out, but thats outweighed by the wing type cord grip.The worst are those dam rubber plugs were you need to slide the top up the cable before you fit the plug.
Monkeh:
--- Quote from: themadhippy on October 25, 2022, 11:19:37 pm ---For all you lovers of the uk plugs, a question.Do you prefer the Mk loop it around the terminal or the more common poke the wire through the hole ? For me ,if im not paying its mk, yea there a bit more fiddly to get a neat job with no stray strands poking out, but thats outweighed by the wing type cord grip.The worst are those dam rubber plugs were you need to slide the top up the cable before you fit the plug.
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Personally I prefer the hole, because I use ferrules. I also like the old fashioned two screw grip, it's rather reliable - as long as the plug isn't so cheap the base bends when you tighten it.
Dundarave:
You know, the fact that there are 5 pages (and counting) of comments on British plugs is, in itself, a commentary on the utility (or not) of something so ubiquitous and prosaic in our modern world.
It would be not even be worth talking about the (by comparison) tiny North American plugs if the British plug didn’t exist for contrast! I guess the Brits can add that to the list of their plugs “superior attributes”, lol.
BrianHG:
The real reason the US Nema plug power cords still have holes in them. Here is what a production line for them looks like:
It allows for a cheap plastic injection molding holding the pins perfectly level during injection.
In the really old days, some plugs were a bent sheet of metal to thicken the plug pin with a hole on one side of that metal making a dent, but the hole would not go completely through.
PlainName:
I'm more inclined to think that they use the hole because it's there rather than putting the hole in to help them. After all, if it were just for manufacture then some parts would have the hole, some not, and some have a differently sized one in a different position, and that could make socket contacts very variable in function depending on plug.
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