110 volt outlet 160 degrees. Is that safe?

A true and enraging story about "back stab" outlets

When I was doing the 911 telco/ radio work for the Motorola outfit in the '90s we had to add some stuff to a place called "Deer Lake Mountain" up by Deer Park, N of Spokane. We had bought what were SUPPOSED to be good quality, all metal case, NAME brand power strips to put into this radio cabinet. There were several components that had to go with this radio, including a backup float charger, a data device, and the radio itself, etc, and outlets at this very small radio building were SEVERELY limited. (I don't know what THEY were thinking, either)

Worse this site is up a HORRIBLE trail that is hard on pickups, with dodging trees and big limbs, rocks, it's a treat. Damage to the truck/ pain/ mirrors almost always happens.

WE HAD of course tested all this in the shop. So I get up to this site, set the radio up on the bench, and plugged it in, all working, fine. And then something quit. Ended up taking the POWER STRIP apart and it is manufactured with---BACK STAB outlets, and one of them does not work, and the way they are daisy chained, I had no way to fix it

We did manage to slide the radio part way off the bench and stretch the power cords to an outlet, but it was NOT pretty

I WAS PISSED. We would have had NO reason to return to that site until part of that equipment developed a problem, and instead, I had to go argue with the Square D supplier in Spokane, and I mean ARGUE as they did not like returns, and then drive all the way up that mess just to replace a power strip that was allegedly "high quality."