Are the pins of an electric plug solid brass?

[Blundstoned Love]

Does anyone know?

If they are, is brass easy to work without heat?

Could a plug pin be beaten into something useful or ornamental?

 

[nephilim]

I believe they are solid brass...but don't know if they can be beaten and worked without heat easily.

 

[Macaroon]

Brass goes hard very quickly and shatters and splits when hammered without heat; but even a heat gun will give you enough heat if you don't knock it about too much.

 

[cbrdave]

Yep, most are solid brass, Ive got a load from old plugs cut off broken electricals, made an air rifle trigger a while ago for a falcon fn19, as said earlier a heat gun would be enough to allow bashing about, was thinking about using them for knife pins or some sort of handle decoration.

 

[nephilim]

Knife pins isn't a bad idea if you can get them rounded...oblong ones whilst unique...would look odd.

 

[cbrdave]

Knife pins isn't a bad idea if you can get them rounded...oblong ones whilst unique...would look odd.

yeah would look a bit odd, was looking at filing them round.

 

[nephilim]

Well Hamerton them to be octagonal and then see how they are...that would be cool.

 

[cbrdave]

Well Hamerton them to be octagonal and then see how they are...that would be cool.

Like the sound of that, would look nice i reckon.

 

[Buckshot]

Drilling the matching hole would be interesting!

 

[nephilim]

Yeah it would, but I suppose a circular hole just smaller than hammer it through would work.

 

[cbrdave]

Been thinking about drilling the hole slightly smaller and filing the hole to suit, sold my mill and lathe last year so cant use them, bummer, should have bought a bigger shed to allow space in the workshop for them.

 

[bilmo-p5]

Keep an eye out for old plugs; they had round pins.

 

[dean4442]

You can still buy the round pin plugs for use with lighting, I know that means spending money but some people might chuck them out.
Colin

 

[brancho]

You can still buy the round pin plugs for use with lighting, I know that means spending money but some people might chuck them out.
Colin

You can 1 meter of 6mm brass rod from B&Q for £8.48.