Home Wiring WTF
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@FrostCat said in Home Wiring WTF:
Or glass mugs.
Perhaps it has more to do with aliens?
https://i.imgur.com/iLpN1Hp.gif
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@FrostCat said in Home Wiring WTF:
glass mugs
Broke one of those in my hand last weekend. Didn't get very cut up about it, but it was very surprising…
Fortunately, it was before it had beer put in it.
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@FrostCat said in Home Wiring WTF:
Which of the three of you were the slow learners?
The neighbor kid thought being shocked was really cool. My brother was a bit of a dare devil. So... all of us?
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@Yamikuronue said in Home Wiring WTF:
The neighbor kid thought being shocked was really cool. My brother was a bit of a dare devil. So... all of us?
: I intentionally unwound a paperclip for the express purpose of sticking it in a socket (kids, remember?) I stopped doing it when I realized it popped the breaker (kid mind: all the lights in the room turned off! Oh noes I broke the house!) and grandma wasn't pleased (though I'm pretty sure she didn't know it was me that was doing it).
I was participating in TENS therapy before it was decidedly something more potentially useful than killing people!
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The problem with fuses in cords is that they are often cheap. Which usually works in your favor (sort of) and they will fry long before anything bad happens. But because they are cheaply made, you will occasionally find them with the ability to fault open and not closed. So the current will still flow and because of how this occurs, you are actually more likely to start a fire than if the device had just faulted normally.
Switches over plugs have their uses, but their uses are far less than having a double socket. So the double socket is the defacto and the switch/socket is the optional replacement.
@Tsaukpaetra
If your house and wiring is old enough, check the box itself. Some really old designs are box grounded and they used the screws to ground the plate. (or maybe this was just a really bad wiring job, but I have seen two different houses with it)
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@Dragoon Erm, why is this a reply to me? Is it the paperclip thing? Because I 100% assure you my actions were precise and intentional... ;)
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you will occasionally find them with the ability to fault open and not closed.
Got that backward. You want them to open when there is a fault. This is a case in which the hydraulic analogy of electricity breaks down; you close a valve to stop the flow of water, but open a switch or fuse to stop the flow of electricity.
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@HardwareGeek You are right, I reversed it.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Home Wiring WTF:
I intentionally unwound a paperclip for the express purpose of sticking it in a socket
So you and @Yamikuronue are also both menaces who should never be allowed around children or whatever, either.
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@FrostCat said in Home Wiring WTF:
menaces who should never be allowed around children or whatever, either.
On the contrary: I would think our real-world experience would prove useful encouragement to prevent such nonsense in any progeny we would come into contact with. Not that kind of contact.
Engine, you're scaring me with these suggestions recently....
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Home Wiring WTF:
@FrostCat said in Home Wiring WTF:
menaces who should never be allowed around children or whatever, either.
On the contrary: I would think our real-world experience would prove useful encouragement to prevent such nonsense in any progeny we would come into contact with. Not that kind of contact.
Engine, you're scaring me with these suggestions recently....
As an object lesson isn't what I was thinking of. A certain person on these fora freaked the shit out at the news that someone with extensive knowledge of what could go wrong if you weren't careful, did something that had the potential to be mildly dangerous if you weren't careful. And there was, I dunno, an earthquake at that exact moment. And the person who was doing the thing wasn't wearing safety glasses.
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@FrostCat said in Home Wiring WTF:
wasn't wearing safety glasses.
One of these days I'll figure out why people are so averse to wearing them....
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Home Wiring WTF:
@FrostCat said in Home Wiring WTF:
wasn't wearing safety glasses.
One of these days I'll figure out why people are so averse to wearing them....
Without reading the thread:
Why would you wear safety glasses for a blowjob?
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@ben_lubar said in Home Wiring WTF:
Why would you wear safety glasses for a blowjob?
Engine suggests it would... be... easier to.. What? People actually eat... Well, I suppose there are worse things to consume...
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@ben_lubar said in Home Wiring WTF:
Why would you wear safety glasses for a blowjob?
Because you are making a porn movie in California?
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@Luhmann said in Home Wiring WTF:
Because you are making a porn movie in California?
The State of California, of course, knows this causes cancer, and wants you to know that.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Home Wiring WTF:
this causes cancer
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@Luhmann I approve of what they were doing to those bagpipes.
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@loopback0 said in Home Wiring WTF:
And thank %DEITY% for that! Getting clean can be a long and hard processes, especially when that is involved...
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@ben_lubar said in Home Wiring WTF:
Without reading the thread:
Why would you wear safety glasses for a blowjob?
Because you're making a porn in LA, duh.
, dammit.
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@Jaloopa
Negative. Fuses and circuit breakers are mechanical devices and don't prevent a surge. The surge has to produce enough heat within the fuse to melt the conductor which means the surge is flowing through the electronics already. Fuses and breakers are used to protect wiring and/or prevent a fire from overheated wiring, not protect electronics.