Equally worrying are the French adapters that have been "Germanated" to fit a regular Shucko clasp-earth style socket by the wholesale chopping out of lumps of insulation from the plug bit of the adapter,
Makes you wonder why somebody would go to all that trouble when it would likely be much quicker to just fit a replacement plug!
Most such appliances coming into Australia with US plugs are bought from duty free shops in South East Asia
My brother has a small 220V toaster oven with standard LPT type cord (no ground) and U.S. plug. It came back from the Philippines.
