Why in this day and age does crap like this still exist?
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Dennis 'd Menace
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Ardvark
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nice receptacles
tamper resistant how? can't turn it right side up?FYI - America now has Tamper Resistnat Ones MANDATED in new construction..
neevo
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Welcome to 1971weights and measures is pretty standard except for the US, but UK still uses crazy stuff like stone and troy ounce, and their pints aren't a pint.
In 1972 we went metric every inch of the way
Anyway, our plugs are the correct ones as we invented electricity. Also our plugs are harder to pull out accidentally, hence they are the safest. Ours are switched too but the switches are off the area shown
Jap SUVs are great, I agree, esp as they have the steering wheel on the correct side
Ardvark
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little platic thing inside, they call them shutters
you have to push in both slots at the same time
i guess alot of kids got hurt by pusshing something into one side
more than doubles prices
Guess I will have to put boxes of recepticals alongside my boxes of incadescent bulbs in the bunker. Fawk the .gov.FYI - America now has Tamper Resistnat Ones MANDATED in new construction..
3-prong. 
I spent an entire day swapping those out of my brother's new house after the electrical inspection...those and the new circuit breakers...damn things have their own safety-trip switch and something as simple an turning off the vaccuum or a hair dryer would trip the breaker safety.FYI - America now has Tamper Resistnat Ones MANDATED in new construction..
After the inspection, we swapped them all out and sold them back to the contractor.
New breakers? Expensive? No more $3 Murray ones?
neevo
Limey Hippo
Or the drill has a fault that the breaker is reacting to and which will get worse so that one day...
I used residual current circuit breakers when I electrified all my windows where I lived before. The burglars got a warning shock but not enough to kill them, or worse, cause a fire and burn my place down. One belt and they decided my place wasnt so appealing
Doubtful. Brand-new Milwaukee bought just for the job.Or the drill has a fault that the breaker is reacting to and which will get worse so that one day...
you mean like afci breakers?
I'm not positive but I think if I did that here to my brothers house after the inspection and his house burnt down due to electrical, his insurance would not pay him. He'd be fawked.
We exclusively use tamper resistant duplex recepts and I have never heard of this.
Not my decision to make.
I never heard of them either until he had his house built last year.
My parents' new house has them too. The little door thingys jam up sometimes so plugs dont go in smoothly. They didnt have the new circuit breakers though...