Another (clean!) name for three-way block/three-fer?

[Grog12]

As an impromtu QotD What is another name for this device besides threefer?

 

[gafftapegreenia]

Well, clean, I got nothin'


The only other name I know for them makes allusion to an establishment for the solicitation of the services of women of ill repute, certainly not appropriate for a family-centric forum.

 

[derekleffew]

...What is another name for this device besides threefer?

Are you going to share this, alleged, alternate name with us, Grog?

 

[ship]

Are you going to share this, alleged, alternate name with us, Grog?

Think Rubix (sp.)

 

[Grog12]

Nah I like to keep things to myself.

I've actually (right or wrong) heard these called Duck Paddles before.

 

[PezUnion2004]

I've heard the edision version called Cube-taps but i don't know if it applys to stage pin.

 

[gafftapegreenia]

Came across a unique version of a cable mount three-fer block at a local theatre yesterday. I apologize for the poor picture.


This theatre also has their building original trough style striplights leaning in a corner!

 

[Scarrgo]

How about a Spider Block? or am I thinking of something different as the pic is gone from the original post, I am thinking about the one that is a flat, larger version of a Stagepin, with one side male and the other three sides female....brown in color and material...
Sean...

 

[DavidNorth]

Came across a unique version of a cable mount three-fer block at a local theatre yesterday. I apologize for the poor picture.
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This theatre also has their building original trough style striplights leaning in a corner!

Oh wow. Yes, I haved worked with those before. Scary on the inside and make for very interesting cabling on the electric. Gross!

 

[len]

Triple Tap.

 

[lipinski]

....splitter?

 

[Namlit]

Came across a unique version of a cable mount three-fer block at a local theatre yesterday. I apologize for the poor picture.
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This theatre also has their building original trough style striplights leaning in a corner!

I guess what matters is the male end of this device. Where I have seen these, the male end has been a 60 amp stagepin, with the 60A circuits being run by 6,000 watt dimmers. Works great electrically for plugging multiple lights into a 60A circuit...except for the lack of 20A protection.
Unless I was in a theatre with 6000 watt dimmers, I'd use the pictured "three-fer block" with a 20 amp male stagepin plug only.

 

[Kurt]

I've always called the two-fers "y-splitters" regardless of how incorrect that may be. I'm wondering if we can't come up with a clean name for the device because of the nature of it or simply because we aren't mature enough XD. all jokes aside, maybe call it an "x-splitter"? Not that it really looks like an X but it would certainly indicate a difference from the "y-splitter" assuming you are using that term as well

 

[derekleffew]

We already have Y-cable, Y-style, V-style, and W-style. Three-way block or three-fer are perfectly acceptable, descriptive, and "clean" names.

Let's not compound your "mistake" further by adding a non-industry standard term like "x-splitter".
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