OP
neil2jo
Are you an electrician? I don't think so. I will try to explain WHY my suggestion is perfectly acceptable. Take off the high level socket front. Crimp ONE LEG OF THE RING and extend it to the next socket. bring the return leg from the new socket back to the high level one and re-terminate.
This is how you extend a ring. If you want to have more sockets, simply take the crimped extended leg to the new furthest pint and work you way back.
Is this simple enough for you?
And Miketwinny, I suggest you learn to read before liking dumb posts.
your actual original post reads
'why not keep the original socket and make the others part of the ring. you only have to extend one cable then.'
therefore only extending '1' part of the ring is to in affect make a radial/spur from the ring
as you rightly state extending both cables to open the ring is fine...but is not what you originally wrote!!
However no where have you wrote that you should check its a ring as this could be half way through a radial, or check demand etc etc etc
In answer to your question yes I am an electrician and one of the first registered with NICEIC scheme back at part P launch plus time served way before the scheme, not that has anything to do with getting it right or wrong
However it would seem your use of English and gramma when forming sentences, is mis-leading therefore asking the question 'did you go to school'...i dont think so!! lol