Most of us who lives in United States/Canada in a house built in a past decade or two will have bunch of three prong grounded duplex outlets. Is any of your outlet completely loose to the point it won't work, one of two plug doesn't work or simply a bit too loose? My cell phone's battery charger fell off the wall about once a week so, I took today and checked every outlet's in the house. There was quite a few loose and defunct outlets and in the end, I replaced eight outlets today. By the way I bought a ten pack for $4 at Lowe's, so it couldn't be built too well...
I took apart one of the old outlet I took out and I was very amazed at what I saw inside. There is no spring in there like many of us would probably speculate it. There was two pieces of brass, each weighing about 1/6 oz. One served the left side, other seved the right side and ground brass was attached to the backplate. No wonder these are 39cents each!.. They can do wonder in cutting every corners possible without making it too obvious from outside :Q
Seems to me that houses are built with cheap ass materials like this that looks just like a quality counterpart with an assumptions that the buyer will live for a few years and sell the house relatively soon. Some parts such as outlets are disposable and designed to last a few years before needing replacement. Would you say this is the result of American's evergrowing desire to go with "alright looking", but sloppy low initial cost products? I'm not being stereotypical, but it is a well known fact that many American consumers don't think about durability, long term costs, jumps for cheap-ass low initial cost items. This probably has alot to do with brand name companies making crap products in order to compete as well as being forced out of business by Taiwan giants.
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I took apart one of the old outlet I took out and I was very amazed at what I saw inside. There is no spring in there like many of us would probably speculate it. There was two pieces of brass, each weighing about 1/6 oz. One served the left side, other seved the right side and ground brass was attached to the backplate. No wonder these are 39cents each!.. They can do wonder in cutting every corners possible without making it too obvious from outside :Q
Seems to me that houses are built with cheap ass materials like this that looks just like a quality counterpart with an assumptions that the buyer will live for a few years and sell the house relatively soon. Some parts such as outlets are disposable and designed to last a few years before needing replacement. Would you say this is the result of American's evergrowing desire to go with "alright looking", but sloppy low initial cost products? I'm not being stereotypical, but it is a well known fact that many American consumers don't think about durability, long term costs, jumps for cheap-ass low initial cost items. This probably has alot to do with brand name companies making crap products in order to compete as well as being forced out of business by Taiwan giants.
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