I have not seen switched electrical sockets in North America though it is common in the UK and possibly other European countries. You could change out the box for a double box with a switch in one side wired to the plug on the other side, this is of course almost a very small rewiring job.
Another satisfactory solution might be to make up your own supplementary short extension cord of very heavy duty extension cord (assuming your compressor is a high amperage machine) with a plug, inline switch and a socket. You could even buy a suitable length cord of sufficient gauge with moulded ends and cut it at a suitable point and insert an inline switch. Sometimes finding a satisfactory inline switch can be a challenge, something with big enough orifices to receive the heavy cable. I suppose you could use one of those plastic electrical boxes and a standard light switch, it wouldn't look quite so elegant. I did this some years ago to an extension cord for the Christmas tree since I always seemed to be crawling on my belly under the darn tree to plug it in or unplug it. Dale Leavens, Cochrane Ontario Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED] Skype DaleLeavens Come and meet Aurora, Nakita and Nanook at our polar bear habitat. ----- Original Message ----- From: robert moore To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2007 8:37 PM Subject: RE: [BlindHandyMan] electrical cord This thread got me thinking. Does any one make what looks like a standard outlet like the ones that we see all over our house that you can put into a standard outlet with some type of on off switch on the side or bottome. I have my air compressor unplugged and I have to plug it in every time I want to use it. Not a huge deel but it would be nice to just flip the switch and turn it on and I don't intend on doing or having any one do any wiring in the garage. I could use a power strip I suppose but I was kind of thinking some thing like a power strip only more like a power block. I have seen ones that you plug into a 2 socket outlet that has six sockets but never one with a power on off switch. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Larry Stansifer Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2007 3:05 PM To: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] electrical cord Bill, You might also try craft or hobby shops. I have a collection of 1/18th scale formula one cars in a couple of show cases and they use somewhat the same setup to back light the displays. At 02:07 PM 10/18/2007 -0500, Bill Benson wrote: >Dear List members, > >I have an electrical cord probably six feet long with a standard two prong >plug on one end, an on-off wheel switch in the middle, and a socket on the >other end into which you can screw a night light 7 watt bulb. This is to >put inside various figurines, etc. that then light up. Would anyone know >where I could find such a cord? I don't think Home Depot has them, though >one would think they would. Hope someone can maybe help. >Bill Benson >e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:billben%40sbcglobal.net> > >To listen to the show archives go to link > http://acbradio.org/handyman.html <http://acbradio.org/handyman.html> >or > ftp://ftp.acbradio.org/acbradio-archives/handyman/ <ftp://ftp.acbradio.org/acbradio-archives/handyman/> > >The Pod Cast address for the Blind Handy Man Show is. > http://www.acbradio.org/news/xml/podcast.php?pgm=saturday <http://www.acbradio.org/news/xml/podcast.php?pgm=saturday> > >Visit The Blind Handy Man Files Page To Review Contributions From Various >List Members At The Following address: > http://www.jaws-users.com/handyman/ <http://www.jaws-users.com/handyman/> > >Visit the archives page at the following address > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/> > >If you would like to join the Blind Computing list, then visit the >following address for more information: > http://jaws-users.com/mailman/listinfo/blind-computing_jaws-users.com <http://jaws-users.com/mailman/listinfo/blind-computing_jaws-users.com> > >For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the Blind Handy Man >list just send a blank message to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:blindhandyman-help%40yahoogroups.com> >Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > >-- >BEGIN-ANTISPAM-VOTING-LINKS >------------------------------------------------------ > >Teach InfoWest Spam Trap if this mail (ID 131180396) is spam: >Spam: > https://spamtrap.infowest.com/canit/b.php?i=131180396&m=1a5163834cad&c=s <https://spamtrap.infowest.com/canit/b.php?i=131180396&m=1a5163834cad&c=s> >Not >spam: > https://spamtrap.infowest.com/canit/b.php?i=131180396&m=1a5163834cad&c=n <https://spamtrap.infowest.com/canit/b.php?i=131180396&m=1a5163834cad&c=n> >Forget vote: > https://spamtrap.infowest.com/canit/b.php?i=131180396&m=1a5163834cad&c=f <https://spamtrap.infowest.com/canit/b.php?i=131180396&m=1a5163834cad&c=f> >------------------------------------------------------ >END-ANTISPAM-VOTING-LINKS [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
