What the Heck?

[Freddie]

While cleaning out a toolbox, we came across one my Dad's ingenuity thingies

What do you think it is?

 

[JimL]

Is that a fuse in the lower socket?

 

[Freddie]

Is that a fuse in the lower socket?

Nope. No fuse.

Hint: the upper part would be screwed in to a light bulb socket (pig tail)

 

[Greg a]

THAT is in the fire hall of fame as a GREAT cause of fires .....takes a simple light socket and becomes TWO light sockets and TWO electrical outlets especially fun at Christmas when powering a red flood a green flood and two strands of lights .....can get BETTER with screwing in two more splitters for four floods and four strands .......the possibilities are endless

 

[Greg a]

OOPS had been looking at it on my iTouch and didn't notice that it was in fact four pieces ...the top section took a light socket and created another socket with two outlets then dad added a device to split that socket into TWO more sockets and added screw in plug outlet.......Freddie are you sure yoou were not in MY dad's tools

 

[Bina]

We own a similar item.
On our front porch there is a wall mounted light and we needed an outlet for the strand of Christmas lights.
Voila, this combo item solved the dilemma.

 

[epstns]

That is right up there with the famous stack of "cube taps" that turns one outlet into many. Allows you to overload a circuit with no effort at all!

Sure is a good thing that they can't screw pennies in behind circuit breakers like they did with the screw-in "plug" fuses.