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Default Electrical Outlets Upside Down? Code?


Ed Pawlowski





8:26 PM (1 hour ago)


















On 10/3/2016 9:27 AM, TimR wrote:

It was silent for a second then someone from a far corner of the build site
called out "He cut the cord." The echo chant now changed from "Don't cut the
cord!" to "He cut the cord.", "He cut the cord.". The timing was perfect and
we ending up laughing so hard it hurt.

Cousin I-Cut-The-Cord Monster


Is there anyone here who has NOT cut the cord of his hedge trimmer?



Define cut. Clear through? Nope, never did that. Lets not get into
details such as cutting through the insulation and other meaningless
trivial facts.


You don't have to cut clean thru to have a problem, just severing one of the two/three conductors will stop things pretty effectively. I have been known to repair that type of failure by inserting a bare copper wire a couple of inches long into the two cut ends to reestablish conductivity for that conductor, and then taping over the whole thing. That works fine as long as the insulation over the unsevered conductor(s) is/are intact, and the cord is not flexed too much.