Has anbody ever used any of these? It is made of Brass.





Roger

Is that 2-sided?

I have never used one or seen one.

My guess is that is made for an old in floor duct system like Walker duct.

Is that what it is Roger?

Bob

I'd agree it looks like a floor monument, but I've sure never seen one like this! Is it old?

Bill yes it is, here is the other side.



Bob, I don't know. They were mounted on 3/4" ridgid stub ups under tables, these stubs terminated in receptacles in adjacent walls.

Roger

One up and one down

Bill, LOL I wasn't going to bring that up.

Electure, I'm not sure, it came out of a university renovation project. The building (part of which was a lab area) was probably 50 - 60 years old but the devices are grounded type and parts of the building had been renovated in the last 20 - 30 years.

Roger

DARN! we are never going to solve the which way up problem.

They where just as confused 50 or 60 years ago.

FLASHBACK!!!

Elementary school library...

"Stop kicking them!"

Roger,

I wonder if one-up and one-down was done purposely.

From the first pictures posted I could tell the ground was up in the top picture and down in the second picture. Funny what details we notice, eh?


Bill

"I wonder if one-up and one-down was done purposely"

I would guess that it was done on purpose. In order to make manufacturing easier. The unit is to small to have wires between the two opposite receptacles. There would probably be three small/solid busses (with two female ends) between the receptacles. Keeping both grounds in the same position would be too commplcated to manufacture.

Not to mention, too complicated to spell

Cool find. Were there lots of them?

How do wires attach to this thing? Does it have terminal screws, pigtails or push-in terminals?

Gotta admit that the first picture threw me off. I saw "receptacle" in the title and saw a piece of pipe and thought someone had goofed and gotten pix mixed up.

Crash, isn't that how those cube triple-taps are made? The contacts are all stamped out of a flat sheet of brass or steel or whatever that is then shaped to fit the recesses of the plastic housing. Wouldn't it have been easier to have all the conductors go "straight through"?

[This message has been edited by SvenNYC (edited 11-27-2003).]

Yes Sven. The cube triple-taps would be manufactured in almost the same way. In this receptacle it looks like the hot and the "neutral" go straight through, if the hot and the "neutral" go straight through, then the ground cannot go straight through.