On Sun, 16 Dec 2007 12:10:53 -0500, Terry
wrote:

It is not news to anyone that does a little reading that those stabs
are unreliable and crap.

The ones that get heavy use will eventually cause problems.

Yep, In the last house I lived the wife always used the same
receptacle to plug the vacuum into. I plugged something in one day
and a heard what sounded like a spark/sizzle sound. Pulled the cover
plate and receptacle too find burn marks at one wire on the back stab.