Changing/wiring a plug

I've had to look this up enough times that I thought I'd blog about it so it'll be easy for me to find next time I need to look it up.

When wiring a standard electrical plug–

• The white wire goes on the silver terminal, which in turn goes to the wider of the two prongs on a polarized plug.  The white wire is the neutral wire.


• The black (hot) wire goes to the brass colored terminal, which goes to the narrower of the two prongs.

Source: http://www.ehow.com/how_117563_fix-electrical-plug.html