EASY TRAC

Al Carrell: When you move into your new house invariably you're going to find that the electrician didn't put a wall outlet where you wanted one. We have a place like that right here. The nearest outlet is over there. You wouldn't want to run a cord across here, across the cook top. So we have to plug it in back here and as you can see, that's sort of creates an octopus. And when we want to take this out on the patio, it's very inconvenient. There is a way, however. It's a new system called Easy Trac. You don't have to know anything about electricity. You don't have to handle and electricity. It's so easy you wouldn't believe it. We're going to install a new outlet right there and we'll show you how.

This is where it all starts. This is the connector piece that goes into the wall outlet. You have tracks that can be cut very easily with a hacksaw and you also have connector pieces in case you have more than one piece of track you want to hook up them together. All of this is attached to the wall with screws and when you get to the point where you've got it all hooked up and you decide where you want your next wall outlet, you just put it down in place and snap it and it's there. This plugs into a regular wall outlet, but before you do that, you peel off the little tab there so it'll stick in place. Then, after it's plugged in, you remove this part. You have no current to this. It just plugs in like so and then when you remove the outside part, the power is cut off from the strip and it's safe for you to do the rest of the installation. Just fit the wall strips snugly into their connectors and secure everything to the wall with screws.

Then snap the new outlet in place where you want it. And plug the power connector back in at the head of the system. Now, you're practically done. The last step is to snap this cover over so you cover the track up and it's going to be nice and neat. But before we do that, we have to cut it to length.

You can find Easy Trac at your local home store or contact Intermatic at 815-675-2321

Episode 47 1996 - 97 Season

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