On 12/16/2004 8:33 AM Chip C wrote:

Mike Rocket J. Squirrel Elliott wrote:

On 12/15/2004 10:27 PM JJ wrote:


On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 12:38:52 -0800, "Mike Rocket J. Squirrel

Elliott"

j.michael.elliottAT@REMOVETHEOBVIOUSadelphiaDO T.net wrote:



Can't get the Leviton site to work for me.

I've just installed their 5225-WSP Combination Switch and

Receptacle.

This is the older, non-Decora, style which fits a normal duplex

outlet

wall plate. This item is a Grounding type, with the third hole in

the

front. The house does not have grounding wires. In California, it

is not

required to upgrade, but you can't use three-hole outlets unless
grounding is provided. Does anyone know the Leviton product line

well

enough to know if they make a non-grounding version of this
switch/receptacle? Or, alternately, whether it is acceptable to

plug the

third hole with . . . oh, I don't know . . . chewing gum or JB Weld

or

suchlike?


Just do it the old fashioned way. Get a grounding adapter.



http://www.cooperwiringdevices.com/c...ategory_id=525

That won't do me any good: The box is non-metallic, there is no

ground

wire, and the wiring is simply Romex (or some earlier cloth-covered
variation).

The problem is NOT that I have a two-hole receptacle that I want to
convert to grounded. I am seeking a two-hole (non-grounding) version

of

the Leviton 5225 combination switch/receptacle in a non-Decora style.

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Cooper lists such a thing as item 798B in Brown, 798V in Ivory. I'm
seeing in in their PDF catalog; go to
http://www.cooperwiringdevices.com/catalog/pdf_cat.cfm and click on
Switches, and see page 24 as Acrobat counts them.
(Thanks to another poster for the link to Cooper's site.)

You da man, Chip! Many thanks!

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Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
71 Type 2: the Wonderbus
84 Westphalia: "Mellow Yellow (The Electrical Banana)"
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