Handy little adapter - comments please!

[alasdairp]

Another New Year post. Not a video this time!
A really useful bit of old kit for 'old boys' like me... Used by me as a child and still useful at times this year. Is it legal or not? Starter for 10 points...
Q1/. would it still be legal if it had never been unplugged?
Q2/. Is is legal to use it / them now? For double insulated appliances...

 

[SJD]

I have one of these for plugging in my iron into the lighting circuit!

And a bayonet splitter, so I can continue to use the lamp whilst ironing.

 

[static zap]

Iv'e used one.
Bakelite reminds me of my AVO.

 

[snowhead]

I remember them.
They were 1950's Smart Technology. (may have been earlier but I was born in the 50's)
Power anywhere in the room without trailing leads across the floor.

 

[telectrix]

careful with the pics. we'll have pete having a heart attack.

 

[HappyHippyDad]

I've just rewired a house and one of the things I found was the use of one of those. In total it was supplying the under cabinet lights and cooker hood fan!

 

[Strima]

I have one of these for plugging in my iron into the lighting circuit!

And a bayonet splitter, so I can continue to use the lamp whilst ironing.

It was only twenty odd years ago when my mum got rid of hers. Only because the iron finally went pop due to the cotton insulation on the flex wearing out...

 

[ruston]

I remember those too , also the round two pin plugs that the pins slid in to trap the wires . I still remember the smell of my first Hornby train set..

 

[Silly Sausage]

I remember those, me mam taking the parlour light bulb out and plugging the iron in.
BS52, good enough for me, but it has been replaced 6 times so far ...
BS 52:1963 - Specification for bayonet lamp-caps lampholders and B.C. adaptors (lampholder plugs) - https://shop.bsigroup.com/ProductDetail/?pid=000000000010003547
follow the trail

 

[Silly Sausage]

And a bayonet splitter, so I can continue to use the lamp whilst ironing.

Tsk, bloody posh people!

 

[Deleted member 105166]

I remember these at my late grandmother's house, they were often used with a 2-way BC adaptor, so you could use the light and an appliance together (the link is to images on JW's site)

 

[freddo]

I remember those too , also the round two pin plugs that the pins slid in to trap the wires

Clix made those, I'm sure I have some here somewhere.
I also have an adaptor that allows a bayonet plug to connect to a 2 pin socket outlet.

 

[Deleted member 9648]

I've just rewired a house and one of the things I found was the use of one of those. In total it was supplying the under cabinet lights and cooker hood fan!

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Sorry mate but that's the worst rewiring I've ever seen......

 

[Squid]

I have one of these for plugging in my iron into the lighting circuit!

And a bayonet splitter, so I can continue to use the lamp whilst ironing.

I remember those from way back, usually in rentals for lodgers.

 

[pirate]

I remember them too...they worked!
Nobody died...

 

[SparkySy]

I still have some of those bc adaptors kicking around, I put had a pair of test leads connected to it from days before the break out adaptors for lights were invented!

 

[freddo]

Anyone got a link to that old video where a frayed pendant flex shorts and blows the fuse when the toaster is plugged in, then the whole family help to repair the fault?

 

[pirate]

Was that the one where Mr Cholmondely-Warner said "Lucky escape you had there!"?

 

[freddo]

That rings a bell!

 

[pirate]

This was my absolute favourite, from many years gone by!

I never forgot
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and I must have been about 12...