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Ralph Mowery

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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.

I bought a new washing machine about a month ago. Looking over the
instructions it mentions the machine is to be grounded . That is by the
3 prong power plug. There is no mention of a seperate ground wire. In
machines of the past there is usually a mention of a ground and maybe
even a clamp of sorts for the cold water pipe. As many homes now have
plastic pipe, it will do no good to put a ground wire to the pipe.

There is one minor mention of a code or permit for grounding. It simply
states to check with a qualified electrician if you are not sure the
washer is properly grounded.