Lengthening a plug cable?

McKneff

Why not just move it 6 inhes closer when in use and then move it back when ouve finished

Ectophile

If you are competent to do basic DIY electrics...


You would need a plug, a bit of flex of the correct rating to match the appliance (hint: look carefully at the existing flex - it's probably marked with the cable size in square millimetres), and an inline flex coupler.

unrecordings

+1 for Shaun & Whitegoods advice - there's probably a number of good (yet admittedly annoying) reasons why the flex is quite short. It's going to be 16A cable for a start which is a !!!!!! to wire safely & neatly without any experience.

Robin9

There's a reason why these cables - like those on kettles are short.

It follows a safety campaign on the Watchdog TV programme. That campaign led to manufacturers selling kettles with shorter leads. Cables had previously been long and would often hang down over the edge of kitchen cabinets, within reach of small children who would pull them and risk being scalded by hot water.

Find a place where you can plug your fryer in permanently and don't change the lead or use an extension.

SHAFT

unrecordings wrote: »

+1 for Shaun & Whitegoods advice - there's probably a number of good (yet admittedly annoying) reasons why the flex is quite short. It's going to be 16A cable for a start which is a !!!!!! to wire safely & neatly without any experience.

What do you find difficult?

unrecordings

SHAFT wrote: »

What do you find difficult?

I was referring to the OP (sorry OP if that's a poor assessment on my part)...
Over 30 years in the music industry and I've seen some horrific plug wiring from self proclaimed experts