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If we have "Plug Tops" why don't we have "Socket Bottoms"?

As per the Subject really. This expression "Plug Tops" has puzzled me for years.


I can understand confusion with D-Sub Connectors where the Plug has a Female Body and Male Pins and vice-versa. Trying to describe a D-Sub Gender Changer is like explaining the Rules of Cricket:-

"You have two sides, one out in the field and one in. Each man that's in the side that's in goes out, and when he's out he comes in and the next man goes in until he's out. When they are all out, the side that's out comes in and the side that's been in goes out and tries to get those coming in, out. Sometimes you get men still in and not out.

When a man goes out to go in, the men who are out try to get him out, and when he is out he goes in and the next man in goes out and goes in. There are two men called umpires who stay out all the time and they decide when the men who are in are out. When both sides have been in and all the men have been out, and both sides have been out twice after all the men have been in, including those who are not out, that is the end of the game."


Clive

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    And you think you've got problems - I'm a Welshman, living amongst the heathens - and they simply can't understand that we do do that, Mun or I'll do in now, in a minute. Asking what's occurring or describing something as cowing tidy (or lush) is often a moment (or several) of total incomprehension. DFUQ is wrong with these people


    I have to make regular trips back to the land of dragons just to reset the system ? - not so much down south more "gone east" for me. As my old mum used to say, trust no b***** north of the M4 and East of the M5.


    It's not so difficult once you understand that plugs go on the wall and on the end of the flex - if you need more granularity, the plug on the end of the flex is a plug top and the plug on the wall is a plug socket - simples. Unless of course it's a plug that goes in the light (usually for the iron), then it gets messy.


    Regards


    OMS




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    And you think you've got problems - I'm a Welshman, living amongst the heathens - and they simply can't understand that we do do that, Mun or I'll do in now, in a minute. Asking what's occurring or describing something as cowing tidy (or lush) is often a moment (or several) of total incomprehension. DFUQ is wrong with these people


    I have to make regular trips back to the land of dragons just to reset the system ? - not so much down south more "gone east" for me. As my old mum used to say, trust no b***** north of the M4 and East of the M5.


    It's not so difficult once you understand that plugs go on the wall and on the end of the flex - if you need more granularity, the plug on the end of the flex is a plug top and the plug on the wall is a plug socket - simples. Unless of course it's a plug that goes in the light (usually for the iron), then it gets messy.


    Regards


    OMS




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