/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>2806101
>You can't just polarize it?
The thing's fucking ancient. If I'm gonna do anything with it but ignore it until I need that outlet for something it can't service, it's replace it with a power strip. I'm not sticking a new fucking female end on a fucking 60 year old extension cord to save a buck and some light drilling.

To be clear, by non-polarized, I mean it only has 2 tiny holes on the outlets on it, as in you literally can't stick polarized plugs into it because the neutral side is too fat.

>>2806102
>It isn't a suicide cord
It's literally just a fucking extension cord like the orange ones you have in your garage. That's the male end. The other end is female.

>>2806141
Yes, although they're used to hide cords so the other end is more likely to just be connected to the device's cord , not a second extension cord.

Like say you wanted to hang a screen near your ceiling between two outlets. Rather than running an extension cord to it in front of the wall, you install one end of that thing behind the tv, tuck the wires behind it, then install the other end near an outlet, and connect it to an outlet.

I cannot stress this enough, it's literally just a hidden extension cord. It only looks ridiculous cause you're seeing just one end.