Pat test

Sparkingchip:

There’s one of those with the matching element in my wall paper stripper, they aren’t obsolete and still get used in specialist equipment, such as the decapping trays that bee keepers use.


As Legh says they probably don’t comply with current standards for kettles and any kettle having one will be a “retro item” that needs to be used with care as it may not cut off automatically when the kettle boils, so if left unattended presents a higher risk than a modern kettle.


Not a kettle that is suitable for today’s teenagers or millennials or generation Z for that matter.


Those of us used to using tea urns should be savvy enough to use them reasonably safely, unlike those brought up with “boiling hot water taps”.

That's cool well they are still made and known as catering kettles now hence the biggest danger with these was the cord being grabbed by little hands pulling the kettle and it's contents (possibly scalding hot) over themselves hence still allowed in a responseable adults environment only problem is testing the lead separately as per requirement due to the fact these like there newer iec (kettle lead) where quite cross compatible so have to be treated as a detachable power cord I may end up making a test adapter using another old element used by these kettles minus the kettle potentially 

Sparkingchip:

There’s one of those with the matching element in my wall paper stripper, they aren’t obsolete and still get used in specialist equipment, such as the decapping trays that bee keepers use.


As Legh says they probably don’t comply with current standards for kettles and any kettle having one will be a “retro item” that needs to be used with care as it may not cut off automatically when the kettle boils, so if left unattended presents a higher risk than a modern kettle.


Not a kettle that is suitable for today’s teenagers or millennials or generation Z for that matter.


Those of us used to using tea urns should be savvy enough to use them reasonably safely, unlike those brought up with “boiling hot water taps”.

That's cool well they are still made and known as catering kettles now hence the biggest danger with these was the cord being grabbed by little hands pulling the kettle and it's contents (possibly scalding hot) over themselves hence still allowed in a responseable adults environment only problem is testing the lead separately as per requirement due to the fact these like there newer iec (kettle lead) where quite cross compatible so have to be treated as a detachable power cord I may end up making a test adapter using another old element used by these kettles minus the kettle potentially