Wall Cleat
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For mooring the many ropes of technology.
What use is an electrical plug when your not plugged in? Two simple tabs on the ends of a standard cover plate increase its function.
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Very cool.
It only holds one plug and it might look odd when there’s no cord wrapped around it, but it’s still cool.
Cool idea… BUT a problem waiting to happen:
1) The screw opening in the cover plate does not have sufficient strength to accept the likely loads.
2) The receptacle body where it accepts the cover plate’s screw plate does not have sufficient strength to accept the likely loads.
3) The attachment straps on the receptacle outlet (which attach the receptacle to a metal or plastic electrical box) have insufficient strength to support the likely loads.
4) Often, the attachment of the plastic or metal electrical box (to which the receptacle outlet is attached) to the wall does not have sufficient strength to accept the likely loads.
For these reasons (and a few others), it’s *highly* unlikely the product could receive a UL listing, which means that it would be illegal to install it almost everywhere in the US.
Yeah, it would have to be stronger… I don’t know what the “likely loads” are, but I don’t think it would take that much.
…unless you are using some sort of ultra-high density electrical cords that weigh a ton…
The wound cord would probably not weight much more than say, a power adapter that you might plug in. Why then would it be too much for the plate to hold?
simple and functional, some glue and reinforcement would get rid of any weight load issues
fery good idea!
Michael Thomas +1
you’d have to rethink the attachment… perhaps have it attach directly to the wall via corner screws rather than center screw