In rec.woodworking, -MIKE- wrote:
On 1/2/18 10:29 AM, DerbyDad03 wrote:
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.

I've swapped two light fixtures in December with power just shut off at
the switch. I try to treat the wires as live all the time.

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.

Just the opposite for me. I want people around, but I tell everyone what
I'm doing.

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.

Man, I'd be so happy with a ground to every box. I still have tube and
post in places, with zero slack making changing switches or outlets a
real excercise. I don't know what the code was when the building was
last sold (~35 years ago) but I question how well it was inspected even
then. When the wiring went in, it was run alongside the gas lines for
gas lighting. Instead of a box, I end up hanging lights off the pipe
coming out of the ceiling. (One grace is that those pipes have all been
disconnected from the gas supply.)

Elijah
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would have to move the asbestos insulation to get at some of the wiring