Touchwood
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- Aug 23, 2011
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- Compass Avantgarde 140
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- 5 years and learning
For some time I've been meaning to sort out my EHU socket on the MH - it has always been a struggle to unplug the cable from the socket and had to be "wiggled" extensively to unplug it, not something I was happy about as inevitably something is going to loosen or break eventually.
I've just taken it all to bits, and found the problem. The earth pin socket is a brass tube with four longitudinal slots in it, on the end of the tube there's a spring steel collar which acts to reduce the diameter of the tube by compressing it and closing up the slots. It seems to me that the collar is too tight, I can see why it's important that the tube grips the pin securely but it's so tight it's a problem getting the pin in and out. (All the sockets are the same, but the earth pin seems to be the tightest)
Problem is, I can't see any way I can fix this without just removing the collar altogether, which I'm reluctant to do. I've tried WD40 to lubricate the pin and tube but it doesn't really help.
Also, I found when I opened up the plug on the end of the EHU cable that one end has the live and neutral transposed - is there any reason this should be so, and should I correct it when I put it back together or leave it alone? (As it all seems to work OK)
All advice welcomed as usual
I've just taken it all to bits, and found the problem. The earth pin socket is a brass tube with four longitudinal slots in it, on the end of the tube there's a spring steel collar which acts to reduce the diameter of the tube by compressing it and closing up the slots. It seems to me that the collar is too tight, I can see why it's important that the tube grips the pin securely but it's so tight it's a problem getting the pin in and out. (All the sockets are the same, but the earth pin seems to be the tightest)
Problem is, I can't see any way I can fix this without just removing the collar altogether, which I'm reluctant to do. I've tried WD40 to lubricate the pin and tube but it doesn't really help.
Also, I found when I opened up the plug on the end of the EHU cable that one end has the live and neutral transposed - is there any reason this should be so, and should I correct it when I put it back together or leave it alone? (As it all seems to work OK)
All advice welcomed as usual