On Fri, 7 Feb 2014 13:05:14 -0500, "Robert Green"
wrote:



Have no clue. Just thought I might try to get some utility out of the
thread and possible pick up some pointers about how to better use these
flexible drills I appear to have wasted money on. I had such high hopes for
them that never materialized. I was replacing two prong outlets with
grounded ones.

In some cases I just settled for installing GFCI outlets without trying to
pull a new ground wire.

Just to remind you, you don't need a ground wire or a 3rd prong for a
GFCI to work They measure the current in the hot and neutral and if
they are not the same, they trip. They don't use the ground at all
aiui.

In other cases I installed completely new outlets -
the old wiring had only two(!) outlets per room. I guess in 1940, that was
"hot stuff."

Darn right. I think of what my brother and had in my room in 1964.
Just a lamp on the desk and a clock radio. And I'd recently gotten sick
of the windup clock I used, because it ticked so loud, and I screamed
at it, and my mother had an unused electric alarm clock all along. (It
might have had a radium dial so she didnt' want to use it until I
complained.)

And a ham radio receiver, but most people wouldn't have had that.

And that's pretty much all I had until I was 24, had roommates, and I
put a tv in my room. Still, two double outlets was enough. That was
until '74.