I would agree it might be useful to rig up some customs leads and boxes using off-the-shelf parts

You miss the point, here.

I do not want to make a project out of this. I just want to buy the little two-pack of glow-lights for $1.59, and stick one of them into the cube tap on the end of my extension cord.

NAPA sells an in-line light (the same thing that's built in to the "lighted" extension cords discussed above) for a couple of bucks, I'll just get one of those and plug it into my cube tap.

On the very remote chance that anyone is interested... I won't use it in-line, because it is made of some sort of rubbery plastic stuff that turns rock hard at any temperature much below zero, and is very difficult to plug into. My cube tap is the hard plastic variety and plugs/unplugs quite easily -- just like plugging something into a wall socket. It is epoxied onto the end of the extension cord that is semi-permanently plugged into the wall at work.

I'm kind of surprised that nobody was familiar with the little G.E. glow lights -- I was halfway hoping that someone here would have a couple kicking around that they'd part with. But I guess it's kind of an Alaskan thing.

tanstaafl.