Electric Plug Replacement Instructions

Changing a broken euro plug

If your electric plug melts or one of the pins breaks, the replacement technology is as follows:

1. We cut off the euro plug that needs to be changed and remove the outer shell of the cord (about 5 cm from the end).
2. We clean all 3 wires for 15-20 mm. About, how to remove insulation we told in the corresponding article.

   

   

   
   
3. We twist the cores and cut them so that 10 mm of bare wire remains, which is enough to change the plug with your own hands.
4. For better contact with pliers, bend the copper ends, as shown in the photo below.
5. And now the most important thing is connecting the wires. Generally, a cord for connecting a washing machine, refrigerator or other household appliances has 3 contacts: blue - zero, yellow-green - ground, the remaining - phase. To correctly change the plug with your own hands, the "ground" must be connected to the central pin, the remaining two to the pins, here the polarity is not important.
6. Next, you need to clamp the cable (namely it) with a plastic jumper that will fix it in the seat.
7. Lastly, the Euro-plug body is assembled, which is fastened with one screw.

Video replacement tutorial:

This way you can change the plug on the wire yourself. As you can see, the instruction is quite simple, especially in the photo examples each replacement step was discussed in detail.

How to replace an old electric plug?

If you have an ordinary Soviet electric plug that needs to be changed and at the same time the house wiring is not grounded, the replacement method will be slightly different, namely:

• To begin, cut off the failed electric plug and disassemble the case of a working product.
• As in the previous instruction, remove the outer sheath of the wire, strip the ends 15-20 mm and bite off the excess.
• Since the design of an ordinary plug is slightly different - in particular, the method of fastening the cores, make rings from the stripped ends, as shown in the photo below:
• Connect 2 conductors to the electrical plug, ignoring the polarity. We draw your attention to the fact that if you have 3 wires in the cord, yellow-green must be cut off, because it will have nowhere to connect.
• Then clamp the plate and assemble the housing.

You can clearly see how to replace the plug yourself, on the video instructions:

In this way, you can replace the electric plug yourself.As you can see, the most important nuance is to connect the wires correctly, if there are 3 wires. To do this, you need to know standard wire marking by colorso as not to confuse anything. We hope you now know how to change the plug on the wire with your own hands!