John, first off, there's a date on the back of the wall to 1955, and a new sheet on top dating to 1990. (Of course for some reason the old sheet chipped away near the boxes, as can be seen in the picture.)
What I'm trying to point out here is the recept. was being held up only by the painted on-cracked-in-my hands wallplate.
Since they have no plaster ears (right word? Remember I'm the resident idiot.) they were help up by the plate, and would fall back when you plugged anything in. Almost every outlet in the house (kitchen and guest room excluded) is like this.
Plus, the darned outlet just needed replacing.
I know the phone cable wasn't always quad. (Thank you VDV Forum!
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Ian A.
[This message has been edited by Theelectrikid (edited 02-28-2007).]
