Pat Testing - If there's no earth on the plug, is it a fail?

[telectrix]

i can just see my missus lugging an isolation transformer onto the kitchen worktop to use her 47 year old electric carving knife.

 

[Andy-1960]

I recently repaired my mothers 1960's Kenwood Chef food mixer and was staggered to find that this also was wired with a 2 core flex.
As the body of the machine was die-cast aluminium, (I did not really think it could be classed as double insulated!!), I felt this was not safe, so changed the 2 core for a 3 core and bonded the body of the machine.

 

[The Ghost]

some of the older instruments like that can fetch money on ebay, check first before throwing!

 

[telectrix]

reminds me, we got an old dansette auto-change record player (c.1962) in the attic.

 

[westward10]

some of the older instruments like that can fetch money on ebay, check first before throwing!

We do a lot of charity shops and a couple are on the ball with online and eBay. Anything out of the ordinary is put to one side, assessed and if worthy put online it is highly unlikely a record player is of great value.

 

[The Ghost]

Yeh just thought I'd mention it as my brother put an old gerrard turntable on ebay and got a few hundred for it from a guy in china who even sent a courier to pick it up as he was a member of the Gerrard firm and was putting together a collection of their historical items.

 

[Specialist]

reminds me, we got an old dansette auto-change record player (c.1962) in the attic.

Your old Dansette could be worth a few Bob tel, They certainly sell well.

 

[uksrevivor]

my no.1 bin filler at the moment is peppa pig dvd's. what a load of crap. no wonder youngsters today are stupid.

Dont bin em m8 lol as crap as they are my grandaughter loves them send them to me lol it will make a 2 year old very happy.

 

[Paul228]

I worked with a lady called Patricia Test. I never got the chance to see if she had two squares on her deriair.