Knightsbridge ST6ABK 6A DP Inline Cord Switch, Black

Great replacement. works a treat.

These are well made and conform to their rating. They are rated at 6 amps and can just manage 0.75mm flexible cable. They have reversible cable clamps and female screw terminals.I have just wired two of them with 0.75mm cloth covered cable, one modern double sheathed and fatter, one vintage. They are two pole isolating switches, ideal for vintage toasters and things with accessible live parts. (which of course, should not exist!). They have earth feed through.No sign of overheating with 2A current: I do wonder if 6A might be. little ambitious. They are small and quite fiddly to wire: the secret is to get every wire exactly the right length and stripped precisely. Those two pictured took me 90 minutes in total, but I did have to use heat shrink sleeving to avoid the fabric covers from unravelling.They do the job well, are small and neat and well designed, but you do have to be very careful and very patient!

The housing and switch action are all good. Inside the housing, the space available for routing wires is barely sufficient. It can be wired up correctly but everything must be cut precisely, no excess length, and care must be taken to press wires into the channels without damaging the sheaths. Would benefit from being 1-2mm wider and longer.

My ageing 90s Hi-Fi switch has been failing randomly turning off etc and no amount of contact cleaner was working and couldn't find the replacement part. So I ended up bypassing the system power switch so it is always on and bought this inline switch for power on and off.The switch is well made and was easy to install on the power cable for the Hi-Fi. I recommend measuring & cutting cables and stripping the ends before clamping down as it can be a little fiddly if you have one side connected then have to work on the other given you have less movement available.Great for low Amp devices like lamps & HI-FI's etc - always check power/amps requirements before doing something like this as if requirements are to high switch would become dangerous.

Nice compact switch, not overly easy to wire up, but I've had worse!Works nicely and does what its supposed to.

The casing is good and the unit looks good and stays like that once assembled BUT ….undo the screws and the issues were many. Inside the area to work in is tiny and it feels flimsy and you are scared you will break it. On mine the switch was misplaced to one side and off its rocket setting causing it to come off completely during the tight set up. This caused the brass rockers to fall out . Im not an electrician and I have big fingers and I had to work out for myself how and where they sat and then refit the switch all the time worrying I would break its seat. I got lucky but it shouldn’t have to be like that with a switch designed for you to fit. All in all , it now works but was really troublesome and someone less confident and with any less practical ability would have binned it.

Whilst on a tour of the SW of France I wanted to recharge our phones, cameras, computers etc in the places we stayed. Some only had two pin electrical outlets. Back at home I had a lead with a two pin plug which had been on a table lamp which I could fit with a double socket. However, it only had a single pole switch so if you put the plug into the wall socket the "wrong way" round the attached sockets and the plugged in equipment would still be live even when the switch was off.Thus I was looking for a double pole inline cord switch which seemed to be quite rare. Many offerings didn't make it clear how many poles they had. I finally came upon this one. It is a quality product, well priced and genuinely a double pole switch. Should you be wanting to switch a 3 core cable the built in earth connector is a real bonus.

Does the job nicely