Yeah, that sure looks like a piece of #18 gauge lamp cord spliced to the romex and plugged into a triple cube tap that goes to the receptacle on the porcelain lamp fixture. Then there's another cord with a black round plug connected to that that thing (towards the top).
Porcelain ceiling lamp fixtures like that are still made with either grounding and non-grounding receptacles on the side. The pull-chain switch only controls the lamp and the receptacle stays on.
I'm sure, however, that the manufacturers never intended them to be used like THIS!!
Also, look at how the lamp cord connected from the screw-shell adapter is wrapped a few times around the ceiling and then goes to the little rubber connector that has the ground-cheater adapter and the black three prong cord hooked to it. Gotta give the genius responsible some credit here, at least he thought about providing some strain relief! Hahahaha! :-D
Where do all these wires go to anyway???
[This message has been edited by SvenNYC (edited 09-05-2002).]
