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Originally Posted by Neil
All it takes for the earth pin to become live is a bad connection of the ring main earths in the consumer unit and an earth fault on an appliance or cable.
I had a metal kettle a couple of years ago that faulted live to earth so the whole metal kettle would be live if the earth had been missing in the socket or consumer unit.
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Thanks for that
very useful info.
So I am back to shopping for copper handcuffs
ie plan A (water pipe connection)