[Shop-talk] kid safety & outlets (was: 110vac outlet question)

[Ron Horwitz]

> However, the thing I'd like to have would be something
> to prevent a child from partially unpluging something
> that's already plugged in, then getting their fingers
> onto the hot.
> 
> Does something like that exist for common 110vac outlets?
> 

I don't know, but it didn't exist in about, oh, 1971-72 when I did this.  I still remember the hot tingly feeling.  Unplugging a lamp that was behind a nightstand, pulled the plug partially out, leaned to get my then short arm a better reach, and still remember it to this day.....

Ron