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Trouble finding sideways receptacle

4everRS

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Hi all. I'm fairly new here but am greatly enjoying reading through various threads.

Anyway, I am looking for what is turning out to be a fairly unique receptacle. Pic below:

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As you can see the plugs are sidways, or 90 degrees compared to normal. This is a receptacle in a home. I would like to find one or 2 to purchase. Search several websites and local hardware stores. Nothing.

Any help or input would be greatly appreciated.
 
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Steevo

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There is an architectural salvage place in Minneapolis that has lots of older style receptacles and lighting switches, etc.
They also have so much stuff you could spend most of a day there looking at it all.
It is called Architectural Antiques and is at 1330 Quincy St NE in Minneapolis

That said, what you have appears to also have a circuit breaker built in.
I think that for safety reasons, I'd replace that with a modern GFCI type.
 
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Charles (in GA)

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That said, what you have appears to also have a circuit breaker built in.
I think that for safety reasons, I'd replace that with a modern GFCI type.

That is a GFCI he shows in the pic. I have two of them, I installed them in '97 when I moved in the house, and later removed them. The contacts inside are not very strong (the plug pulls out easily) and they are wired using pigtails from the unit, rather than screw terminals on it.

I also do not think they meet current GFCI requirements which (going from memory here) mandate that they cannot be reset if there is no power to the receptacle and that they illuminate a warning indicator light when they trip. I do not think they are as sensitive as newer ones.

Charles
 
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4everRS

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Thanks for the response guys. There has obviously got to be a reason they aren't available anymore. The reason I was looking for this in particular, was that I am hanging a flat panel tv and mounted a recessed electrical box and need to make all the plugs fit in there. Unfortunately, some of the plugs are those blocky ac adapters.

I ended up finding this:

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Don't need gfci here anyway as there is already one at the end of the series. These are rotating plug in's, so it will be even more versatile than my pic posted previously.
 
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