"The Great Debate" - Plug Top or just Plug?

[Dustydazzler]

plug top or just plug

 

[telectrix]

it's a plug. a plug fits into a socket. if it were a plug top, a socket would be called a plug bottom. end of debate.

 

[sarky spark]

Plug.

 

[buzzlightyear]

plug top ,answers on a post card to Tele co electrical forums @knotty ash jam butty mines Liverpool Uk earth the universe .some where in the distant galaxey .

 

[telectrix]

plug bash st kids - Google Shopping

 

[buzzlightyear]

yes lord snotty beano .lol.

 

[Spoon]

Plug

 

[rapparee]

it's a plug. a plug fits into a socket. if it were a plug top, a socket would be called a plug bottom. end of debate.

You mean a socket bottom ?

I'd just call it a plug.

 

[buzzlightyear]

when me goes to holly salers me asks for one of those thingmy jigs that hold the cable and put in a wall fixing plate called a three hole thing .

 

[rapparee]

View attachment 50177yes lord snotty beano .lol.

I'll call you Chubsy Ubsy instead.

 

[buzzlightyear]

You mean a soggy bottom.

boys

 

[Pete999]

it's a plug. a plug fits into a socket. if it were a plug top, a socket would be called a plug bottom. end of debate.

Does it really matter we are all grown up and know what a plug top is for Gawds' sake

 

[Zdb]

I call a plug a plug top and a socket a socket outlet.

 

[buzzlightyear]

any body seen my pug top for me table lamp.

 

[telectrix]

plug top went out the door with eebads and ring main. get a grip lads.

 

[ruston]

plug top went out the door with eebads and ring main. get a grip lads.

Is that a plug grip or a cord grip?

 

[Pete999]

plug top went out the door with eebads and ring main. get a grip lads.

Lost the will to debate TEL

 

[Pete999]

Is that a plug grip or a cord grip?

Just a plug top Mate, reckon we ought to give up o/if we are arguing about this.

 

[Zdb]

Old habits die hard

 

[telectrix]

is this a plug or a plug top?

 

[Dustydazzler]

Wtf

Shut the front door ......

When the heck did eebads go out the window

 

[ruston]

Wtf

Shut the front door ......

When the heck did eebads go out the window

When the clamp fell of the metal frame .

 

[telectrix]

When the clamp fell of the metal frame .

 

[Dustydazzler]

Plug Top

Fused 3 Pin Plug Top

This three-pin plug top comes complete with a 13A fuse, giving you a powerful current capacity that suits extension cables and household electrical devices.The 13A plug is manufactured to British Standard BS1363, conforming to the requirements for safety, construction quality, testing and...

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[buzzlightyear]

are you there slack Alice ,lol.

 

[Deleted member 26818]

It’s a bulb.

 

[Dustydazzler]

It’s a bulb.

Planted a load of those yesterday

 

[ipf]

is this a plug or a plug top?
View attachment 50179

…..need three of those for a socket......one for each plug hole...

 

[Charlie_]

AC power plugs and sockets: British and related types - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

 

[static zap]

Aged 15 , I discovered its a "Plug Top" in the electrical trade !
(but I do have a family member who grows Bulbs)

 

[buzzlightyear]

but I do have a family members who grows Bulbs

I see you do,lol.

 

[telectrix]

flobadobadob. weeeeeeed:

 

[ipf]

View attachment 50184 I see you do,lol.

You should be strung up, buzz.....ask tel about the Woodentops in Scouseland.

 

[rapparee]

Is this a commando plug top?

 

[ipf]

flobadobadob. weeeeeeed: View attachment 50186

Tel loves his gardening...……..or pot smoking, weeeeed?

 

[telectrix]

You should be strung up, buzz.....ask tel about the Woodentops in Scouseland.

in Scouseland , Woodentops were beat cops with pointed helmets, and quick to belt us kids round the ear hole if we misbehaved.

 

[telectrix]

Tel loves his gardening...……..or pot smoking, weeeeed?

gardening my arse. my ideal lawn is green tarmac.

 

[buzzlightyear]

Woodentops were beat cops with pointed helmets,

 

[Deleted member 26818]

gardening my arse. my ideal lawn is green tarmac.

Paving slabs, so the oil from the motorbikes can slip down the joints.

 

[ipf]

in Scouseland , Woodentops were beat cops with pointed helmets, and quick to belt us kids round the ear hole if we misbehaved.

We had 'em too, mate but, as expected, you told 'em

 

[ipf]

gardening my arse. my ideal lawn is green tarmac.

Surprised Bill and Ben weren't banned for promoting pot and weed...…?

 

[GeorgeCooke]

Any electrician or anyone else who refers to a plug as a plugtop is not very bright.

 

[Deleted member 26818]

I tend to use 3 pin plug, or 13A plug.

 

[ipf]

Any electrician or anyone else who refers to a plug as a plugtop is not very bright.

They were marketed as plug tops, years back.

 

[buzzlightyear]

gardening my arse. my ideal lawn is green tarmac.

yep,laid by green men.

 

[Risteard]

Any electrician or anyone else who refers to a plug as a plugtop is not very bright.

Calm down Winston.

 

[telectrix]

fuse board, ring main, bulb. plug top, conduit pipe, light switch socket, earth wire, choc block, trip switch..... wash my mouth out with carbollock soap.

 

[Lucien Nunes]

On another forum, we tried to unravel the history of the term 'plug top' and while it wasn't very conclusive, it confirmed what I've always believed.

100 years ago, when electrical installations were mainly for lighting, both portable appliances and socket-outlets were few and far between. Often, a socket would be installed specifically for one appliance that needed connecting, not as a general purpose point as we think of it today. A house might have one for the standard lamp, one for the iron, and then when an all-electric wireless was purchased, another point had to be put in for that. Appliances came with bare ended flex, so for every socket-outlet bought, a plug would be needed too.

Therefore, wholesalers often stocked and sold a matched pair of plug and socket as a single item, i.e. a complete pluggable means of connection, under the term 'plug' or 'switch plug'. Many catalogues of 1900-1930 list them as such; contractors, architects, engineers, reference books all commonly referred to the combination of plug and socket, and by extension the socket alone when the plug was removed, as 'plugs', 'wall plugs' etc. The term 'plug top' evolved to mean just the detachable part of the complete 'wall plug'. At the time, 'socket' seemed to be more commonly used to mean specifically the female contact, i.e. the opposite of 'pin'.

What needs more research is what the IEC had to do with it, and with the modern usage of 'plug' and 'socket'. As early as 1906, the IEC wanted to standardise electrical terminology amongst other things, and had done that in many languages before WW2.

 

[telectrix]

a dedicated socket for the iron>>>> luxury. my old mum was gobsmacked when dad bought her an iron that did not have to sit on the fireplate. it came with a bayonet plug annd dad bought a splitter so she could plug both iron and light bulb into the sitting room light. wireless (8 valves) came without a plug, so it was wires shoved into 15A round pin socket with the fire plug.

 

[Lucien Nunes]

OK yes, iron probably wasn't a good example as they were so often connected to lighting points. OTOH, in the time period I was thinking of, there was no TV.