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03-28-2009, 10:06 AM
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Duplex Outlet No box
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03-28-2009, 10:08 AM
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I don't get it. You have a loose device that's not hooked up to anything. I see two holes in them for mounting to a box.
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03-28-2009, 10:10 AM
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I am not sure what you can use these for but there is a back plate that is made that will adapt a cover plate to a standard box. Will that work? Actually it looks like a standard box holes will work.
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03-28-2009, 10:38 AM
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The holes are at standard box spacing but there is also a little Bakelite cover that covers the terminations, and holds the metal parts in place.
They were used in a plaster and lath wall with 3 neat little intersecting 1 in dia holes bored in the wall. No box.
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03-28-2009, 10:42 AM
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typical knob-and-tube device. They didn't use boxes in them days. 
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03-28-2009, 10:51 AM
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The one of the left of the second pix looks like it would be for an antenna outlet, not line voltage.
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03-28-2009, 11:06 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by 480sparky
The one of the left of the second pix looks like it would be for an antenna outlet, not line voltage.
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That is the same as the device on the right just with the terminal cover still on.
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03-28-2009, 11:40 AM
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03-28-2009, 11:52 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by MDShunk
That looks like the forerunner to the very similar mobile home receptacles that they still make and install today.
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But I see no way to mount them to a wall surface, save to anchors or toggle bolts. They still look like ordinary covers to me.
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03-29-2009, 02:51 AM
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The bakelite cover is the box. I'm sure that wood screws held those to the plaster lathe behind the wall.
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05-17-2009, 12:22 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by 480sparky
But I see no way to mount them to a wall surface, save to anchors or toggle bolts. They still look like ordinary covers to me.
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Looks like you wood screw them right to the lath
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