On 1/2/18 10:29 AM, DerbyDad03 wrote:
On Tuesday, January 2, 2018 at 11:11:51 AM UTC-5, -MIKE- wrote:
On 1/2/18 8:16 AM, Unquestionably Confused wrote:
On 1/1/2018 9:05 PM, DerbyDad03 wrote:
On Monday, January 1, 2018 at 9:47:43 PM UTC-5, -MIKE- wrote:
On 1/1/18 7:38 PM, DerbyDad03 wrote:
On Monday, January 1, 2018 at 7:52:56 PM UTC-5,
wrote:
I've been working on the power in my basement (adding a
couple of circuits and lights for the shop) and have been
using a new wire stripper. The thing is really slick for
stripping NM cable and working inside boxes. I've had
some others that work OK, until they're dropped or are
used to try to bend wire. Once they get whacked, they're
never the same. These are strong enough that that
doesn't happen. Nice!
https://www.homedepot.com/p/Milwaukee-NM-Wire-Strippers-48-22-3070/206865418
Nice! I love the "live circuit" warning on the pivot point. ;-)
I have an expensive set of pliers/wire cutters that I used to
wire my house, 25 years ago. I still have them. But when I
was cutting through a run of romex in the attic that I
"swore" I switched off power to... well, let's just say that
after a pop and a puff of smoke, I turned them into 12ga
wire strippers. :-)
Well, that's one way to put a "notch" in them. ;-)
Hate it when that happens, -MIKE-. I imagine you may have
altered your skivvies as well. 
Ha! It happened too fast for any reaction, really. It wasn't until
I tried to move the pliers that I realized what happened. They were
"spot welded" to the wire a little bit. When I wiggled them off
the wire, that's when I saw the perfectly round notch in the
cutter.
Thanks God for circuit breakers!
A bunch of years back a neighbor asked me to change the fixture
outside the side door of his house. Before I started working I asked
him if he had turned off the power. Based on his "Yes" I started
working. I had to cut some old wires, strip stuff, etc. I finished
swapping out the fixture and told him to turn the power back on.
He opened the screen door, reached in and flipped the wall switch.
I guess his idea of turning off the power was a little different than
mine. Luckily for me the original fixture (in a very old house) had
been wired correctly enough that the wall switch actually killed the
power to the fixture. I gently explained the difference between
shutting off the fixture and turning off the power. He was a little
embarrassed and I learned a lesson as well: Trust, but verify.
True, very true.
I will often swap light fixtures that don't have the power in the box,
only at the switch. But I only do that if I'm alone and there's nobody
around to mistakenly flip the light switch on.
BTW, the days of switched-wire-only to the switch box are numbered.
New electrical codes require common and neutral to all boxes. There are
so many new switching devices which require a complete power circuit
that new code is requiring all rough electrical to have the neutral run
to every box, even if it's just in a closed loop. That way, it's there
for future modifications and upgrades.
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