Identify this plug

[bsr]

Hi Guys

Can anyone identify this plug/socket and give me a part number or suggest where I could get another matching plug? It's flush and on a lighting radial. Unlike a normal 3A plug, this one has flat blades.

I tried in the local merchants, but they said they had never seen one.

Thanks in advance
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[Taylortwocities]

Used a lot in the past to power things like mains clocks (remember them?)


EDIT its an MK 993, 995 or 997. Depending on mounting and if flush or surface. Still available

Here's one http://www.tlc-direct.co.uk/Products/MK0995.html

 

[333rocky333]

Not sure they were rated to take a brown 13 amp fuse were they
I thought they were 20mm fuses or maybe its the picture deceiving me

 

[JohnW2]

Not sure they were rated to take a brown 13 amp fuse were they I thought they were 20mm fuses or maybe its the picture deceiving me

They use standard BS1362 fuses, but came/come with 2A ones fitted. I don't know what current they were rated at, but I'm sure there are some here who would argue that since a consumer could (as we've seen here!) easily change the fuse to a 13A one, it should be rated at 13A - although I rather doubt that it is! I once lived in a house (70s/80s) which had a lot of these, used for above-/under-/in-cupboard lights.

Kind Regards, John.

 

[JohnD]

Used to be called a clock connector but obsolete for that purpose.

I'm surprised a brown fuse fits. I have used them for extractor fans, off a lighting circuit, and I think they come with a 2A fuse which is a bit smaller than BS1362.

Not going up in the loft to check, though.

 

[JohnW2]

I'm surprised a brown fuse fits. I have used them for extractor fans, off a lighting circuit, and I think they come with a 2A fuse which is a bit smaller than BS1362.

The MK website says that they are BS1362 fuses (and that it comes with a 2A one fitted), but I can find no mention of the accessory's rating.

Kind Regards, John.

 

[RF Lighting]

IIRC the surface mount version took a 20mm fuse.

 

[bsr]

Thanks Guys. Good point about the fuse - I'll change it.

 

[JohnW2]

IIRC the surface mount version took a 20mm fuse.

The MK website says:

997 WHI
SURFACE MOUNTING
Fitted with 2 amp fuse-link to BS 1362. Terminals will accommodate 2.5mm2 conductors. ......

Kind Regards, John

 

[RF Lighting]

Shows what I know

 

[333rocky333]

I will dig out an old mk book im sure they took 20mm fuses the same as the fused 5 amp plugtops, i vaquely recall the fuses being yellow

 

[RF Lighting]

Now I know for certain the 5A plugs took 20mm fuses.

 

[RF Lighting]

Good call! MK list no. 602

 

[Adam_151]

Think they might have been BS646 fuses

Did you know that a BS1361 fuseboard fuse picked out a toolbox in dim light will fit a fused spur, but result in a call back as the load doesn't work as the fuse is too short to make contact

Still makes a change from the other way around, all those 13A BS1362 fuses jammed in 1361 5A carriers which irratatingly seem to fit and make contact just fine

 

[RF Lighting]

Yeah they were BS646 fuses.

I think I might have been thinking of an old fused spur which had a carrier similar to a clock plug that took BS646 fuses.

I've not seen one for years and years though.

Ha ha never done that, but I've seen plenty of 13A BS1362 fuses shoved into 5A BS1361 fuse carriers