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I'll risk saying, O.K.
:D

I'm pleased that C&G still do exams for Radio Electronics, I was beginning to think we only had people that called a transistor, "that little black thing with 3 legs". Such joy that there is still training in electronics without it having to be classed as I.T. (They are Nowt but board swappers).
:)

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It was 1987 when I passed both my radio ham exams with distinction in both papers and then class one at Fleetwood nautical College where I went on to pass the day skipper, inshore navigation, VHF and HF marine radio and morse code. Since then I took a refresher at FNC and still enjoy not getting my fingers burnt. I can still solder components onto boards and trace a fault even though I am 72 and use glassed.
Keep up the good work and stay safe mate.

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i knew it, accyweb has officially gone MAD !!!

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Not gone, but it does remain MAD!!!
:D

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indeed Less, indeed

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Can agree more Less, I once tried to mess about with a ceiling light in a suspended ceiling, thought it would be okay just to switch the light of, wrong, It does give you that warm tingling feeling when you hit the deck, since then I have left well alone;)

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The type of earthing pad I might buy (not yet done enough research), will not require me to mess about with the pins of any plug. It comes with a one prong plug that fits into earth hole of a three pin outlet. So all this chatter about 'dont mess with electrickery', although sound advice, isn't relevant to this thread.

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Always remembering that the socket may become faulty:rolleyes:

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Has the earth point of any socket ever been known to become 'live'?

There are items called 'socket checkers' which can detect malfunctions
Equilibra Flexible & Professional Grounding Products

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Safety, especially in a hair brained thread such as this one is paramount when it comes to Electrickery.
http://www.buzzle.com/images/safety-...death-sign.jpg

But of course,as usual you know best.
http://blog.tmcnet.com/blog/tom-keat...-tombstone.jpg

:rolleyes:

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PS - I am not one of those females who has never changed a plug:rolleyes:
....although I do have wisdom enough to know that I'm not capable of any electrickery other than that.

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All it takes for the earth pin to become live is a bad connection of the ring main earths in the consumer unit and an earth fault on an appliance or cable.

I had a metal kettle a couple of years ago that faulted live to earth so the whole metal kettle would be live if the earth had been missing in the socket or consumer unit.

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Thanks for that very useful info.
So I am back to shopping for copper handcuffs :D ie plan A (water pipe connection)

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With fluffy outside covers Margaret:eek::D

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NO - that would inhibit the flow of earth protons into me.;)
....anyone here knows about Schumann resonance?
....I have yet to establish the validity of earth grounding as a health benefit, although there is plenty of anecdotal evidence