Not to mention two wire lamps. A grounded outlet does nothing to prevent the
hot leg from chaffing and causing the metal body from becoming energized



"Harry K" wrote in message
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On Oct 7, 6:18 am, George wrote:
HeyBub wrote:
abby wrote:
Hi,

My daughter rented an apartment in an older two
family house.
The receptacles are all two prong except two.
What is the safest
way to use three prong appliances with this
wiring?

The bathroom, believe it or not, does not have a
outlet!
How difficult (egg, expensive) would it be to add
a GFI outlet?

The "safest" way is to not use them at all.

The most practical way is to buy a mess of 3-to-2 adaptors. The
consumer
world existed for 80 years without ground plugs and modern electrical
equipment is scads better today.

Good plan, why bother with nuisance tripping of circuit breakers or
GFCIs if the frame of a metal appliance should become energized. With
the adapters if there is an internal fault that can never happen.- Hide
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Only if the box itself is grounded and the pigtail wire is installed.
Plugging 2 to 3 adapter into an ungrounded box does nothing at all to
protect against shorts in an appliance.

Harry K