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



But let's keep it in scale. �If you are not wearing seatbelts, eating right, and
controlling weight and blood pressure, ground pins are the least of your
troubles.

-- Doug


all of these just endanger you, whereas a hacked wiring system can
endanger others, even years after you sell your home. if the bad
wiring isnt found and fixed

anyone including a child can get badly shocked. children can get
killed when shocked, where a adult would survive

perhaps I am sensitive to this since i very nearly got killed by
stupidity.

a customer nothed exposed wires on a radio plug and taped them up with
masking tape. i reached around to unplug radio touched a radiator and
the plug with exposed wires and ended up 20 feet away on my back, got
bad shock.

after recovering i cut the plug off the radio so the jerk wouldnt do
it again. a teacher could of easily killed one of her
students..........

i asked customer what were you thinking and showeed it to the
principal suggesting teachers should get a basic safety class.......