Replacing socket?

[blup]

So I’ve taken off the socket & removed the back box & need to put the electric back on. I’ve bought the connector strip as you can see, basically which wires am I putting where & how many connectors should I use?
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That’s where wagos help, the conductors go in the same side.

Blup

 

[EFLImpudence]

So can connector blocks but you have no choice with Wagos or similar connectors.

You might not want all of them in the same side.

 

[ben100]

I’ve got this earth wire at the top but as you can see the end is on a bend & it feels hard & I don’t want to break it can I use something like pliers to straighten it out?

 

[terryplumb]

Straighten it with pliers

 

[opps]

I am not an electrician, and so am happy to be corrected by the professionals answering... nevertheless, in my non professional capacity, I look at the likes of Wagos being safer when removing and rescrewing face plates. It would/might be fairly easy to make a plate fixing screw accidentally hit a screw in those terminal blocks.

 

[EFLImpudence]

It would/might be fairly easy to make a plate fixing screw accidentally hit a screw in those terminal blocks.

W------e------l------l - possibly but surely not if you don't position them under the screw-hole.

 

[opps]

W------e------l------l - possibly but surely not if you don't position them under the screw-hole.

True, but I recently worked in a house where the fixing screw cut through the insulation on the switched live (thereby tripping the RCD whenever you tried to turn the light on).

That said, the above is not directly applicable to the outlined scenario.

There have been times though when I have removed the fixings screws for the purpose of wallpapering and the screws were 50mm long. It is quite easy to make the screw deviate when putting it back in.

Nevertheless, point taken, tnx.