An old electric heater came into us a few weeks ago. It was beyond repair. A pile of rust and chrome with an unsafe bimetallic thermal cut out switch. But the real horrors started with the plug.
Opening it up, we found scorch marks, a part from a different plug providing the live clip to hold the fuse, however this part was too big and moms power was arcing from the live pin bypassing the fuse. Wiring was shot too.
This was a fire hazard and I was surprised it hadn’t gone on fire.
It pays to open up and inspect plugs every time. If wires are wrong, you could potentially have a live chassis, or missing earth, etc
Oh wow, that’s … impressive? Impressively bad anyway.
I don’t recall the exact details but we did have one of those cheap Christmas decorations that move & play tunes catch fire in the repair hub while we were doing initial tests on it. @kim was that one of yours?
