Any advice on how to earth appliances in a country with 2 prong sockets?

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Any advice on how to earth appliances in a country with 2 prong sockets?
I get a tickle every time I absent-mindedly rest my arm on my PC case and its starting to annoy me.
 
Attach a thin electrical wire (a length of cheap speaker cable should suffice) from the PC case to a known good earth... A bit of bare metal on a radiator pipe or something will probably do the job.

Although you really shouldn't be getting zapped by your PC case.. It suggests that there may be a short somewhere unless it's somehow building up a static charge.
 
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mattyfez said:
Attach a thin electrical wire (a length of cheap speaker cable should suffice) from the PC case to a known good earth... A bit of bare metal on a radiator pipe or something will probably do the job.

Although you really shouldn't be getting zapped by your PC case.. It suggests that there may be a short somewhere unless it's somehow building up a static charge.
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Don't have any radiators or any "known good earth", I'd have to create one, which is what I'm asking - we've got metal desks or a big set of metal doors, would that suffice?

All 3 PC's and my laptop screws do the same thing so it's not a fault of the PC, the microwave does it too
 
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theone8181 said:
Is there no earth around the socket, I thought some did?
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no here there isn't no

anyway, I've just tried the door frame and that seems to be working, so I just need to work out a way of permanently connecting an earth wire to the door frame so depending on whether I can find drill bits or a soldering iron I'm calling that a job done
 
I just hope there is a RCD (probably a GFCI in that case) or similar at the supply point :s
 
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Rroff said:
I just hope there is a RCD (probably a GFCI in that case) or similar at the supply point :s
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Does a TJ6310S count? That's the only thing between the main breaker and the rest of the house as far as I can see
it definitely tripped when I connected a faulty power supply anyway (it didn't survive the plane trip)
 
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andybird123 said:
Does a TJ6310S count? That's the only thing between the main breaker and the rest of the house as far as I can see
it definitely tripped when I connected a faulty power supply anyway (it didn't survive the plane trip)
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Appears to be an MCB so good luck with not dying... I tried to Google for specs on it and weirdly it just brings up weird dating related Reddit threads... (and the sales product page but that doesn't have much detailed info).
 
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Rroff said:
Appears to be an MCB so good luck with not dying... I tried to Google for specs on it and weirdly it just brings up weird dating related Reddit threads... (and the sales product page but that doesn't have much detailed info).
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RCD's need earthing, which as previously discussed at length, this country does not have by and large, so its what I'm stuck with until we get approval to build on our land

It was only 2008 that they became mandatory in the UK, so most properties in the UK that haven't had a new consumer unit probably still don't have them either
 
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