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So THAT'S what those little holes in those boxes are for!

So were those wires live ? ? What was that box supplying and why would those wires be sticking out like that ? ? With wire nuts on the end ? ?

If you'll look closely, you can see that there's an additional 2 screw clamp fitting coming from the top of the box. Also, what looks like a cord is fastened to the post in the background, and was possibly connected there.

It looks to me like this is an abandoned connection of some kind, the guy that disconnected it was bored and had a little too much play time on his hands.

Some of these boxes have a pair of ~5/32" holes on all 4 sides. I don't know just what these holes are really meant to be used for (obviously not this). They don't make very good attachment points for the box. They've just always been there.

Receptacle? What receptacle?



[This message has been edited by electure (edited 05-08-2005).]

electure,
Please bear with me while I learn my third language in 5 years - good ol' American English!

receptacle = socket
box = surface pattress


Alan

Alan,

Actually, that would be your fourth language, to wit, "NEC English." To that part of the US population who doesn't read the NEC in their leisure time, a "receptacle" is known as an "outlet", or a "socket." With a few illiterate types who call them "plugs." (To the rest of us, a "plug" is the male connector on the end of a cord.)

Regards,

Solar




[This message has been edited by SolarPowered (edited 05-09-2005).]

Oh yes, I'm well versed in the dangers of translation, like a pencil 'eraser' is not the same as a 'rubber', a 'fag' is not a cigarette, and a 'faggot' is definitely not a economic sort of meatball or a bunch of twigs to start a fire with! I've done it here too, most famously when I told the Maire's wife that my friend's new puppy, (son chiot) had eaten his slipper. Only trouble was, I pronounced the final 't' in chiot, thus saying that it had been eaten by his sh**house! You've never got a camera when you need one. And not to mention asking someone in the cafe to "Pass me a spoon, if it pleases you", and actually asking (in the local patois) for a certain spherical object, a part of the male anatomy!
Alan