On Sunday, July 28, 2019 at 11:50:26 PM UTC-4, micky wrote:
In alt.home.repair, on Sat, 27 Jul 2019 15:31:46 -0000 (UTC), "Arlen G.
Holder" wrote:

From the US homeowner's perspective of working backward from a wall outlet
o What is the difference between ground and neutral in the US?

A friend is debugging why the washing machine metal case is hot only when

BTW, there is suppposed to be a separate wire from a cabinet screw in
the washing machine metal case to a ground, often clamped onto a cold
water pipe (assuming they aren't plastic. It has to be cold, not hot,
which wends its way through the water heater.).

This seems to me like the part of installation easiest to forget,
because there is no jack for that wire in the machine and no wire
dangling from the machine until you attach one.

We are supposed to believe that all the washing machines being sold are
supposed to have an additional ground wire run over to a cold water
pipe, that the install instructions tell you that, but no connection
for it is provided by the manufacturers?
WTF? Maybe that's how the lady screwed hers, she ran a drill through
the case and into the wiring.




And lots of people
install washing machines without reading the directions.

And some people claim there are things in the instructions that are not there.





But I'd make sure it's there and I'd put it on if it's not. I don't
know what happens when there is already a problem and the missing wire
is installed,

That's for sure. You've made several posts now, but completely
ignore the essence of the questions asked, which go to the fact that aside
from some apparent fault in the washing machine, it is clearly not properly
grounded. And no, that's not because of some missing wire from the washing
machine to a water pipe. There is either a serious problem with the circuit
wiring or with the cord being grounded to the washer metal case.




but that's the way it should be.

No, according to code for a very long time, AFAIK forever, it should not be.
And if you did, it could extend the hot case of the washing machine to
your faucets and bathtub.