receptacles (was IBM 029 Keypunch has arrived)

I am not sure I'd trust anything cheap with mains voltages/high currents. In my case it's my collection that's at stake (I couldn't care what happens to me, there are plenty of good hacekrs, but not plenty of good mahcines). But a good-quality 'power strip' would probably be fine. Or as I suggested earlier, get a 15A 'extension cord' (I believe that's what you call them, over here the word 'cord' is never used for electrical cables), cut off the plug end, and wire the cable (with the socket on it) to the BS4343 plug to fit the power tool transformer. As I suspected, RS (Not Radio Shack, but the company that was knwon as 'Radiospares' years ago -- http://www.rswww.com/ ) do sell US 110V sockets, made by Hubbell. But they are _very_ expensive -- the panel-mouting socket is nearly \pounds 20.00, the cable-mounting one is over \pounds 25.00. If the OP can get them cheaper on E-bay or from the States, then I'd go that route, but if not, it is a source, they will be good quality, and I bet he spent a lot more on the 029 :-) -tony