Competition! How many separate parts in the illustrated BS1363 13A double socket?

[zap]

As there's a discrete number of parts only one guess each (your first).
Winner gets a Like :waving:

 

[telectrix]

176.....but who cares as long as the kettle works when you plug it in.

 

[zap]

176.....

close tel...

warming those beans again?

 

[Brightspark2]

56....

 

[zap]

:nopity:sorry...

 

[telectrix]

148....

 

[Silly Sausage]

136313250.

 

[zap]

If I hit it with a 14lb sledge hammer you may be correct. However, the competition is limited to one attempt per spark. :laugh3:

 

[Richard Burns]

76 if it is switched and if soldered contacts only counts as one.

 

[telectrix]

zap, you do realise that in the end, we insist that you strip it down and count all the component parts, with photographic evidence.

 

[zap]

I've done so but I was wondering if there're others with a similar perferse curiosity as I.

... or shall I just spoil the party and cut to the chase?

 

[Richard Burns]

I have just found it takes about 20 mins to put it back together!

 

[telectrix]

go on, i'm dying to know this so that i can leave the pc and go for some more beer.

 

[zap]

I have just found it takes about 20 mins to put it back together!

< 5 mins

 

[Richard Burns]

< 5 mins

Not when you undo the screws and shake it!

 

[zap]

go on, i'm dying to know this so that i can leave the pc and go for some more beer.

I'll leave it a bit longer 'cos the rugby don't start for another hour and I'm not allowed any beer until then!

 

[Richard Burns]

Ah damn I have had to go and get a beer now!
:54:

 

[zap]

Not when you undo the screws and shake it!

good point. I once dismantled an IBM 101 keyboard. Well, I twisted the metal containers and PRANG bits all over the place. There was a spring, contact, key and pivot for each key. Hundreds...

Did you know that the springs were tensioned depending on the finger used to press it. That's why, in the early 90's they cost over £100 - research and development. I did get it back together but the springs, who knows.

 

[telectrix]

ah, rugby and beer. a combination to be savoured. come on wales!!!!!

 

[zap]

ah, rugby and beer. a combination to be savoured. come on wales!!!!!

arn't they bloody great fish?