Mike Ruskai wrote:
On Fri, 16 Apr 2004 00:34:19 GMT, Joseph Meehan wrote:


Mike Ruskai wrote:


Just use a modern outlet. Screw a ground wire into the outlet box,
and connect that to the ground screw on the outlet (the green one).
It won't be properly grounded (unless the box is actually grounded,
which is unlikely), but there's no harm in wiring it that way. It
won't be any worse for grounded appliances than using those three
prong/two prong adapters.

Yea, that's what Bubal would do. It also happens to be really foolish
and dangerous. They make those rules because people can get killed.


It's neither foolish nor dangerous. It's simply practical, and, as I
said, is precisely as safe as using plug adapters, which is what would
happen otherwise if a three-prong device needed to be plugged in.

"Precisely as safe", huh? I suppose so....it's "precisely as safe" as
some dumbo using an adaptor without establishing that the coverplate
screw is grounded and then connecting the adaptor's ground lug to it.
Three wire cords and grounded outlets were developed to protect users
from internal insulation failures in metal bodied tools and appliances.
They wouldn't have made that transition if there wasn't a growing
history of electrocutions from those kind of failures.

What you've overlooked is this: Someone (Me for example.) who's taken
the trouble to learn and understand why they started making grounded
outlets and tools and appliances with ground leads in their cords could
be snookered into believing they're "protected" when they're not, fooled
by that ungrounded 3-prong outlet you seem to think is no big deal.
That's not quite as bad as knowingly locking a door marked "Fire Exit"
from the outside, but from my point of view it's in the same vein.

Your responses lead me to the inescapable conclusion that your entire
alimentary tract has somehow become reversed...You'd profit from having
that condition corrected.

Jeff

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Jeff Wisnia (W1BSV + Brass Rat '57 EE)

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