How Do You Wire A UK Plug?
This wikiHow will teach you how to put together or fix a UK three-pin plug (I hope). Warning: This can go quite wrong if wired incorrectly, and death/serious injury can occur. • Strip the end of the thick cable coming from the appliance into the plug, using wire strippers. Take off roughly 3cm of white covering, leaving you with three thinner cables. • Undo the Philips screw in the centre of the plug, on the side with the three pins poking out. • Take the back off of the plug (the part you loosened by undoing the screw). • Leaving the plug on a desk/table/floor, take the stripped end of the thick white wire and separate the three wires inside it from each other, so each one is relatively manouverable. • Strip roughly 0.5 to 1cm off of the end of the blue, brown and striped wires, so that the copper insides are clearly visible. • See the diagram below, in the External Links section for a clearer view. • Put all three wires through the cable grip, along with the thick white cable, until
• Strip the end of the thick cable coming from the appliance into the plug, using wire strippers. Take off roughly 3cm of white covering, leaving you with three thinner cables. • Undo the Philips screw in the centre of the plug, on the side with the three pins poking out. • Take the back off of the plug (the part you loosened by undoing the screw). • Leaving the plug on a desk/table/floor, take the stripped end of the thick white wire and separate the three wires inside it from each other, so each one is relatively manouverable. • Strip roughly 0.5 to 1cm off of the end of the blue, brown and striped wires, so that the copper insides are clearly visible. • See the diagram below, in the External Links section for a clearer view. • Put all three wires through the cable grip, along with the thick white cable, until the cable grip can be securely tightened onto the thick white cable. The cable grip may have to be loosened with a Philips screwdriver in order to fit the cable underneath it.
