Socket orientation

[JohnW2]

I was assuming you meant correctly wired ones, since the discussion was around conformity to the standard. If not correctly wired then all bets are off, as idiocy has no limits.

Quite. As I wrote ...

A valid point, but how far can/should one go? It is not impossible that a plug could be sufficiently 'clumsily wired' that there was "a loop of bare conductor lying outside" (or sufficiently close to the outside so as to be touchable by a finger tip).

Kind Regards, John

 

[ban-all-sheds]

Yup - this is true - I didn't think about the "reductio ad absurdum" clumsy wiring possibilities - maybe I was too surprised by stillp's insouciance about sticking an uninsulated probe into the innards of a plug....

 

[stillp]

stillp's insouciance about sticking an uninsulated probe into the innards of a plug

The construction of the plugs I looked at prevents "sticking a probe into the innards".