[Boatanchors] Broken Octal Keyway

[Donald Chester]

> From: Rob Atkinson <ranchorobbo at gmail.com>

> I do this on the hot spade on power cord plugs. After I have gone
> through a piece of equipment and overhauled it, if the power cord is
> good and not a three prong, I find out which blade on the plug goes
> directly to the on/off switch and I use a marker to put a small H on
> it so I know that blade goes into the hot slot on the outlet.


I don't know how many others are like me, but with those two-prong polarised plugs with one wide prong and one narrow that will fit the receptacle only one way, I get it wrong on the first attempt at least 90% of the time and nearly always have to flip it over before I can plug it in.  I would think it would go in right about 50% of the time, but it just doesn't work that way for me. A classic case of Murphy's Law.

Whenever a device is something I use frequently that doesn't matter which way it is plugged in, I file or grid down the wide prong to the same width as the other, so it will insert either way.