Other way round! It's a "common" trick to fit a EuroPlug into a UK socket. This comes up when you run short of the appropriate type of kettle lead :-)
The preferred method of doing it is as follows: - Take N-way mains adaptor - Remove N-way mains adaptor from mains - Insert flat-head screwdriver into mains pin on one of the sockets on the N-way - This removes the sliding blanking plates from the live and earth pins... ... at which point the Euro-plug fits into the square UK socket with a shove - Remove screwdriver - Put N-way mains adaptor back into mains 1: DO NOT DO THIS TO A LIVE SOCKET :-) In fact, don't even do this to a socket "turned off with switch". You should only ever do it to something disconnected from the wall. 2: Where possible, use UK plugs! One of the reasons that the UK has so resisted the Eurosocket is that we have far fewer electrical fires - because all our plugs and sockets are earthed as standard! Mark Ian Pascoe wrote: > You connect a 13 amp plug to a european socket with a pen knife? Isn't that > a bit, um, dangerous? > > <giggles manically> > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Paul Sladen > Sent: 28 June 2007 11:03 > To: British Ubuntu Talk > Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dell & Ubuntu - gradually looking more hopeful > > > On Thu, 28 Jun 2007, Kris Marsh wrote: > >> Most PSUs these days seem to be rated 100-240V 50-60Hz, so [..] all you >> need is a plug converter/travel adaptor. >> > > Changing countries is even simpler; just replace the cable that goes from > the wall-socket to the "cover-leaf" IEC C7 or "figure-of-8" IEC C5 socket on > the PSU. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEC_connector > > I carry a single Europlug->Modified C5 cable for both laptops and electric > shaver---considerably smaller than the suppiled cables and easier to force > into more socket types (all of Europe + British 13Amp with a pen{,knife}). > > -Paul > -- > Why do one side of a triangle when you can do all three. Helsinki, FI > > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/ > > > > -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
