West Coast Resale NEW 2 Prong/Socket Aftermarket TEAC Reel to Reel POWER CORD

hi this is Mark here at Gary's guitars and this is tube tuck part 5 today we're going to talk about prong las' not prawns prongs so vintage amplifiers will often you'll see something that looks like this this is a two prong cable it has no ground prong and it's also nonpolar meaning both sides are the same width so if you imagine what a and outlet looks like with the three prong one side is wide and one side is narrow so usually even if you're using a two prong plug you can't plug in an upside down but these are meant to be able to switch the polarity on the amplifier so they were made to plug in either way now for reasons I don't understand as electricity in North America was developing in the first half of 20th century grounding wasn't a thing and also polarity wasn't really a thing a lot of things that would run in a house over a non polar so AC synchronous motors on vacuum cleaners