We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember Owain saying something like:
I recall coming across many of these things in the 60s and 70s, fitted in houses as extensions/repairs to mains wiring (probably by house owners). I don't recall any sparks using them, but it was possible some did.
Just to add - as with many things which went illegal when this happened, probably no one decided to make them illegal, but the manufacturer would have had to generate a BS to keep them legal, and didn't do so.
Fine by me. It seems like they may have been more common up north though.
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