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In homes grounds down except for the switched recept to identify it as switched.

(A friend of mine used to identify them as smiling faces or frouning faces).

Here's a two wire receptacle I bought last year in the store across the street from where I live.

It was on the display board, and the store owner said it was hanging there for over 20 years!




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Martin & Jones Hardware is a local store that has been in business since the late 1800's. They reportedly have a cowbell there that has bee there since then!

I've seen all sorts of treasures there, and I've bought some old 2-wire recepts there too, brand new, in the box, with the price on the box of ten somewhere around $2.00.

I think I'll go down during lunch next week and clean out some stuff they've got.

Who knows what I'll find!



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OK, just in case--don't forget to fill us in on your finds, '66wv...

It appears that Leviton still makes a non-grounding outlet in their "combination line", #5222:




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