Re: FYI: Home Depot Good buy on conns/cables 20' 3...

--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@egroups.com, ballendo@y... wrote:

> <snip> (and are less expensive than their British counterparts)
>
> With their size and structure, its amazing your(UK) plugs are even
> affordable at all :-) Glad I don't live in a house with those
> large,blocky,fused plugs. Having 220 at EVERY outlet, tho...
>
> Ballendo

When I was over in CA last year I had various sorts of gear like
camera's and a laptop I had to keep charged. I had all the right
leads and plugs but some were long with having an adaptor fitted. The
problem I had in all the hotels was that with the two blade plugs
having vertical blades the weight of the plug and lead just levered
it out of the socket.
I had to go around for three weeks with a stack of books just to hold
the plug up and stop it falling out. One instance I can put down to a
bad socket but not at about 8 different hotels.
What is the normal way of stopping this. The nearest I have seen to
the US bladed plug is the Australian one but theirs has horizontal
blades so it can't lever it's way out.