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Old 05-09-2012, 09:58 PM   #1
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Found this on a remodel. Anyone ever seen one? Know when they were used?
It's stab in only.

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Found this on a remodel. Anyone ever seen one? Know when they were used?
It's stab in only.

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IIRC, they were used in the late 50's, early 60's. I saw them in an apartment building.

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I liked the Hubble Quad receptacle, came in a bunch of colors and you could get a single gang adapter plate for it.
It's a durable option, used the red one for emergency outlets at a hospital.

It also solves the ground up/down/right/left dilemma.
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Harry posted this in another thread about the biceptacle.

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They show up pretty often. I've generally found them in bathrooms.
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I've never ran into one of those but I did see a Despard receptacle once, with a metal cover plate. There looked to be about 1/8" clearance between the prongs and the plate.
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I've never ran into one of those but I did see a Despard receptacle once, with a metal cover plate. There looked to be about 1/8" clearance between the prongs and the plate.
Drama queen.
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No, if I were a drama queen I would need to have about 3 more paragraphs of drama about how dangerous that wall plate is, and somehow worked in story about the SCE lines that keep failing in front of my house.

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