On Jul 3, 2:28*pm, wrote:
On Thu, 2 Jul 2009 21:55:19 -0500, in alt.home.repair, "HeyBub"

wrote:
WhiteTea77581 wrote:
I thought it might be entertaining to see posts of your favorite
experience with someone else's "Handiwork."

Two of my favorites.

1. My brother and I found voltages of 33 and 66 volts at a house that
someone was fixing up to sell.
2. Telephone wire used to wire up a fluorescent light in a restaurant.

At work, one of our computer labs was recently remodeled and got these nifty
new computer tables with built-in power and network outlets. *On one of
them, our professional commercial electrical contractor managed to connect
the table's ground wire to the hot supply....

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Many years ago in rural territory here hard drawn twisted copper pair
telephone drop wire (about 12 or 14 AWG) was a favourite for 'a couple
of lights in the barn'.
Then telco started using copper coated steel drop wires. It didn't
like a couple of amps for two 100 watts light bulbs! One story is that
it burnt off spectacularly!
But have never bothered to work out the resistance, voltage drop and/
or current carrying capacity of say, one hundred feet of steel drop
wire to see if there could be any credence to the story!