DP has just broke my dryer

Lol we both were taught / remember the same way .

@Pinkdreams, if nobody has ever shown you then it's understandable that you don't know , it's not fair that people are giving you a hard time on here.
But as pp say it is easy to change a plug , just make sure the little brass screws are tight and there are no stray bits of wire poking out.

WTF. How has the human race survived so long?

I’m 36. I was taught in primary school and also in brownies for one of the badges. In Scotland if that makes a difference.

I reckon my Mum still will somewhere “just in case” 🤣

DS2 is 28. He was taught to wire a plug at school, and at home I might add, because it’s a life skill.

We did it too when I (54) was at school, I’m sure it was in some of our science exams.

To be fair, I'm in my early 50s and when I was young, no electrical device came with a plug, so you had no choice but to be able to wire up a plug. I think they changed the law years ago (probably in the 90s) and made it so they had to be fitted by the manufacturer, so I do think it's one of those lost skills. But it takes about 10 mins to do.

Having said that, it's so easy to Google these things now so I'm surprised that anyone wouldn't be able to figure it out.

I was never taught it at school. I think I looked it up in a DIY book.

Not everything has to be taught at school.

you're not an idiot and shouldn't feel like one. People rarely learn it anymore and outside the UK, I don't think most countries (any?) do it either.

My children definitely haven't learned in school and their foreign mother hasn't taught them (nor has their British father who has not had any call to do it in the two decades I've known him).

The plastic plate? If so, you only need to take the plate off another unused plug & replace it, assuming it's not a sealed, rubber unit?

I'm 35 and I would have to ask someone aswell! I didn't get taught this at school, I don't think I know anyone under 50 that did!

It's fine for your dad to change them, anyone can, just need to turn the electrics off :) I thought you were saying you could do that but saw the plug as the dangerous bit & that threw me.

YouTube for the plug (though really it's just a diagram you need), dead easy. Though you've not said exactly how it's broken?

Changing a socket is fine, I've done it - just be sure to turn off the mains first.

You don't need to turn off the mains to replace a broken plug, it's really easy, so you can just Google how and follow the instructions.

@Pinkdreams it's a case of live and learn.some responses have been less than kind but hey now you know.
Knowledge is power.👍

It has been on the school curriculum for decades. At least twenty five years.

They are exactly the same. Just a standard 3 pin plug. A tumble dryer will need a 13 amp fuse but that's the most common, anyhow.

Changing a plug is a very basic life skill.

For a PP you can even change a plug socket without an electrician so long as you're not putting a completely new power point in. Generally, if you replace, it's a DIY job, if you make a new one or significantly move something it at least needs an electrician to sign off the work.

For absolute clarity - the socket is the thing into which you put the plug.

The plug dangles at the end of the cable. The socket is literally wired into the very dangerous mains.

And everyone had spare fuses in the random draw!

Google how to replace a plug. I think I was about 12 when I did it first back in the days when you needed to use an encyclopaedia. You’ll be fine.

Rewiring a plug

bRown to the Right
bLue to the Left
Green/Yellow - earth in the middle.

We always had to rewire as kids as fuses were always blowing.

I wonder how many lives have been saved since moulded plugs? 6?

You honestly could have googled how to fix this in less time than it did to make this post.

Stripe the wire back carefully, get a screwdriver and rewire the plug making sure you put the wires in correctly.

It is really easy to do, my dad taught me many moons ago.

Do you mean the plug at the end of the wire, or the actual wall socket? Because the wall socket is a bit more complicated (and dangerous).