being able to wire up the 13 amp plug at home is a very useful skill to have
and it's very easy to do too you simply need a flathead screwdriver some wire strippers
some wire snips or side cutters and not 100 necessary but it can make life easier sometimes
some bent nose pliers so take the cable and your wire strippers just take the end off
and then you turn the cardboard from the 13-hand plug which you'll notice has the cable
drawing the lengths so you just line up
your flex in their appropriate place you take your life which is the brown
and you cut that to length
similarly with the earth
which may be there already and the neutral
sometimes be a little bit fiddly
now we take snip signal and just take off the ends and then a few
millimeters then just twist the core together
if you have any ferrules now is a good time to use them but i don't expect any of you to have them
right onto the plug so just open up the plug obviously you can use a flip
screwdriver for this i'm just being lazy because the flathead will do all of it
and also release the screws for the cable clamp i generally take one of these out all together
and then just loosen off the other one just enough so that i can move it out of the way
like so so here we have the live neutral and earth so we just have to undo the
grub screws take it almost all the way but obviously don't take them all the way out
do this for all three
now taking your cable generally easier to start with the live and just slide it in
and then do it up don't over tighten them
but at the same time give it a little tug just to check that it fits okay
and now then if you find that it's a little bit short or a little bit tight
you take the bent nose pliers
and you can just offer it into position like so
it's like having a small child at hand to get to those tight corners
do the same thing again with the earth
now the best thing about ferro is if you have been able to use them is that you don't get any thread
cable so you just need to check that nothing's come out when you've done it if not you need to
undo it retwist it put it back in again also as a rule of thumb if you're wiring this up to a light
for example you need to change the fuse to a 3 amp or a 5 amp but if it's a kettle or a toaster then
a 13 out is fine it also depends on the size of the cable in this case i should downgrade
the fuse to at least a 5 amp because the cable in this case is too small for the 13 amp fuse
once the cable is in just put your tank back on put the screw back in
tighten up the clamp again you want it tight enough to hold the cable
but not too tight that you end up crashing it
so just like that put the back cover on
make sure it's done up
and you're ready to plug it in so there you have it it's as easy as that please give us
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