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The adaptors plug should have been properly rated for 13amps. Or an internal connection failed and arcing started. All the same the plug top should have been able to resist the max current draw of the fuse.
Second look, I guess it could have been arcing on the line connection, maybe copper hardening due to heating up and cooling down.
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I was lucky. Best of it was it happened on 22 December - not the best time to buy a new tumble drier and my wife refused it as a Christmas prezzie!😁
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It looks to me like the adapter has melted but the socket is fine. 13 amp fuses produce a lot of heat at high current draw, so if the adapter wasn't made of sufficiently heat resistant plastic...
TGR
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Tumble drier and an adaptor. I still have no idea why the adaptor was plugged in but it was. I didn’t notice anything as my sense of smell is really bad. Wife and daughter complained of burning smell over a few days. I then looked at the socket and found it as per the pic with the adaptor burnt and melted into it. Dodged a bullet - big time!