European to UK rewire

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Wife has bought a light from France, with a European plug, obviously! But it's some weird massive plug. Question is, can I just chop off the plug and rewire into a UK plug. Photo attached.
 

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The thing in your picture is not a "plug."

It is a power supply.

It appears to provide 4.5 volts down the cable to the lamp.

You can't cut it off and put on an ordinary plug.
 
amost looks too wide for one of them, but I guess it can't be.

Maybe use a shaver plug adaptor.
* waits for sometime to tell me the pin allignment is incorrect to use one of them
 
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Hasn't anyone noticed that the "plug" concerned is actually a "power supply" with an output of 4.5 V a 1000 mA - virtually, a USB power source?
The thing in your picture is not a "plug."

It is a power supply.

It appears to provide 4.5 volts down the cable to the lamp.

You can't cut it off and put on an ordinary plug.
Well, you could cut it of and put on an ordinary plug but the result would be the destruction of the device concerned when the device was plugged to any operative socket outlet.
I suggest that the term "should not" instead of the contraction of the term "can not" (can't) should have been used.
 
I tried to google USB plug but all I got was adaptors to USB, it seems you can't buy USB plugs!

That is a German plug not a French one, the French plugs have a socket for the earth pin. These
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are made and will hold the power supply reasonably firm, this is better as there is no weight from the power supply on the socket outlet however at £29 rather expensive, when in Turkey I bought an extension lead then cut it in half, put British plug on sockets, and British socket bar on the plug so I have one half I use in UK to power items with German plugs, and other half when I go abroad to power British items.
 
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Thanks all for your comments (some of which were rather amusing). I've ordered an adapter off ebay, the kind that plugs in the bottom since it's a bulky "power supply"!! I'm using a shaving adapter in the meantime (yes apparently that does work).
 
What you need is this item,charger adapter(CPC-PL09958).jpg which is manufactured specifically for European-style power supplies. It has a locking screw to prevent the item being pulled out without the adapter. Its part number from CPC Farnell is PL09958 and is also available in white, PL09959. The price is around £2.25 + VAT (Other suppliers may be available
 
Edit: I obviously didn't read all the way to the end before I posted, yes a properly designed shaver adapter should work but a lot of the older versions may not.
would one of these be better as the weight of the PSU is not left sticking straight out of the adapter but is hanging down closer to the wall

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This is the right adapter:
https://cpc.farnell.com/powerconnections/bca-wh-3a/battery-charger-adaptor-3a-white/dp/PL09959?scope=partnumberlookahead&ost=PL09959&searchref=searchlookahead&exaMfpn=true&ddkey=https:en-CPC/CPC_United_Kingdom/w/search
I have used several of them and they include a clamp to lock the foreigner in. It does mean the PSU will stick out a long way though.
 

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