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Default switching out 2 pin for 3 pin sockets in my victorian home

bob haller wrote:
Hey be prepared to be sued if your faulty grounding kills someone.
espically a child.

so lets assume a visiting child touches something with the ground pin
cut off and dies.


Balderdash! I want all children to have the same opportunities I had as a
lad.

Besides, a goodly percentage of stuff has double insulation and NO grounding
plug.

If you add up all the probabilities of an improperly wired hot/neutral,
metal cabinet, and internal failure, you're looking at probably no more than
one in a million fatalities. What that means is that, of one million kids
who visit the OP's home and lick the toaster, only one will come to harm.

Those are good odds for any Greek.