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Spray Foam For The Win!
second!
What exactly is this? A battery charger? I’m so confused!
hey wat the hell is this
hey wat the hell is this
@Paddy
Power strip,
sensitive to moist.
Fixed with foam.
He must have done this still drunk from the beer!
Plug and Pray.
Plastic beverage bottle + European power strip + expanding foam + ??? = Profit
Yeah, looks like it would float, so it’s probably for a fridge to cool beers in the swimming pool or something. Something I’ve always wanted to try
I don’t get it either
is that some sort of European outlet or something? To me, It looks a lot like a pan to make muffins or something.
It looks like a charger for the battery packs for that drill…I guess? But why so many slots?
It’s a European 4-way mains extension lead. Quite what benefit is gained from foaming it into a plastic bottle I have no idea!
did a google image search for “European outlet strip” and found this http://www.globalspec.com/FeaturedProducts/Detail/European_Power_Strip/21594/0?deframe=1
It appears to be one of the standards over there…. for me here in the US without having ever traveled over there, I wouldn’t have known.
Awesome!
It’s a german outlet.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_outlet
@Joel
My BIL insists that it looks like an old loaf of bread. You might be on to something.
Ah, the power of the internet for random education.
So you in the US call that an Outlet Strip – here in the UK it’s a Splitter Extension. The two-pin format is something you’ll find in Eastern Europe (basically, the former Communist coutries), plus for some reason France.
UK, Germany, and The Netherlands have three pin plugs – except those made before WW2 – not quite identical to the US models I’ve seen.
East Europeans tend to be quite inventive, simply because they have to be, so I’d guess the pic comes from somewhere there.
@Otto
It’s probably a previously BROKEN Euro powerstrip that was revived and armored to live on – rather than throw it out and buy new, which will just break again in a week.
If they insulated the back-side sufficiently, Win. (Spray Foam alone isn’t meant to be an insulator.)
Spray foam is the new WD-40.
Why?
@Powermuffin
More appropriately spray foam is the new duct tape. If it moves and shouldn’t spray foam*. If it doesn’t move and should, WD-40.
*Formerly duct tape.
aaaand YOU FAIL!! of course german plugs / sockets have 3 contacts (wrongly simplified: +_Pol ; -_Pol ; protective line (tins in the socket /on the round side of the plug!! )
or more exactly: Außenleiter, Nulleiter, Schutzleiter . Any questions left??
btw.. I know that this is a PLASTIC beer bottle (Karlskrone). Pisse Wegschütten und die Flasche recyclen. Verteilerdose reparieren. Gutes Bier trinken. Feierabend!!
You meant “hey *watt* the hell is this”@shelby
For many battery drills! @K
Did you say anything about my mother?
@JBD
hey, man trinkt das Bier bevor man anfängt zu arbeiten…
Used my Apple widget translator and still don’t get it… @GreatKatzini
@JBD
translated:
you have to drink the beer before you start working
In Himmel es gibt kein bier, so trinken wir es hier! And this looks like a fast way to get there.
No, actually that should be “glug and pray”..right?
Life would be so much better if everyone would read the other comments before posting.
YES this is a normal western/eastern (whatever) powersplitter -connector -multiplier (what ever you guys might decide on calling it). The ground is not done by a third pin, but by the little metal strips on the sides of the outlets. So sorry Kapitano, that you still are stuck somewhere before wwII and that you americans don’t know much about other countries, but this is a great way to improve one of thos quite cheap outlet things.
I am now actually starting to hate the word fail. Especially when written in all caps followed by an exclamation mark.
Only way it could be improved is if they had filled in the mouth of the bottle a bit so that water could not make its way in there without you realising and giving you an unpleasant electric shock.
@Liz Grey
Hah!
looks messy. nuff’ said.
no, we call it a “power strip”.
And by the way if you say “mains” to an American, we will have no idea what you’re talking about.
Speaking of which, I was once in a really long discussion on some internet board and the Brits were using some term which the yanks had no idea what they were talking about. It turned out to be what we call a dumpster in the states which is a huge metal trash holder (always green for some reason) w/ a metal flip lid. What do they call those in the UK?
@JBD
I’m afraid, no! Or shall I do so??!
@Fashoom
“Mains” = power grid (more or less) if you plug something into a wall outlet, you’re plugging into the mains.
This kind of stuff cracks me up. You don’t even need to be separated by an ocean to have communications breakdown, sometimes a county will do.
I lived most of my life in the northern suburbs of Chicago. I worked with a guy who lived *in* Chicago. I tried to give him directions to my house, and failed immediately. Why? Chicagoans know the major highways by their NAMES. Suburbanites know them by their NUMBERS. So the conversation went something like this:
Me: Get on 94 and go north
Him: Wait… 94, is that the Edens Expressway?
and so on. We had to find someone to translate. Seriously.I wish we had this site available back then. http://bit.ly/ttCu5
/mental wandering.
Followed by the immortal American bravado statement:
“Here, Hold my beer and Watch This!”
(And as soon as this fateful statement is uttered, the sane among the onlookers make sure there’s a big First Aid kit and several fire extinguishers in easy reach, and that they have a phone nearby to call for Emergency Services…)
I live in Korea, and this looks like a Korean power strip. It’s pretty common to see them in bottles for use outside. They are usually just cut across the bottom, and then hung, so that if it rains, they won’t get wet. Of course, there is usually no thought given to pedestrians in terms of power source and electronic item, so it often looks like a garroting waiting to happen.
@Fashoom
I think you mean skip?
Its even more fun when you are Canadian because sometimes we use the US word, sometimes we use the UK word, and sometimes we have a Canadian word.
And in Canada we would call that a “power bar”. And we would call the thing you put the plug into an “outlet”.
FYI in the UK if you ask for lemonade its carbonated.
All that needs now is a little flip lid to protect it against stuff. That wouldn’t work with a British socket, as they aren’t recessed like that and you’d have to be seriously careful with the foam.
@Bruce
What are you talking about? The correct response to “Hold my beer and watch this” is grabbing your cellphone and set it to record video.
I call one of those a “four plug” (I’m British) I’ve been on holiday to Greece quite a few times, and that looks like Greek engineering to me.
You got the “Eastern Europe” part right. Bulgaria to be exact.
The image however was stolen from here:
http://seir.bg/pictures/11889_thumb.jpg
http://www.seir.bg/
Nicely cut though.
In Europe, you get this outlet for 3 Euros or so. Actually, this self-made solution is probably much more expensive than a bought one.
@Jen
I’ll second that one Jen I’m in Korea and saw one of these a couple days ago. And here I’ve been recycling all of my Hite bottles after drinking them.
Or they would have the wrong idea- in the building trades, the mains would be the unfused 220v power where it comes into the breaker box. Turning off the mains would mean to flip the main breaker and cut power to the whole house. Some contractors have special breaker boxes designed to hook into the mains to power tools before the house is wired. After it goes through the breakers and gets cut to 110 volts, it’s called a variety of different things, including wall voltage, circuit voltage, or outlet voltage. 220v power out of the panel is designated by what common appliance it is set up to run- a dryer circuit, or a stove circuit for example.
@Fashoom
“Skip bin”.