On Wed, 29 Apr 2020 02:57:44 -0400, micky
wrote:

In alt.home.repair, on Tue, 28 Apr 2020 21:15:16 -0400, Clare Snyder
wrote:

On Tue, 28 Apr 2020 19:39:07 -0500, dpb wrote:

On 4/28/2020 3:14 PM, wrote:
On Tue, 28 Apr 2020 01:17:21 -0500, dpb wrote:

On 4/27/2020 7:57 PM, Clare Snyder wrote:
On Mon, 27 Apr 2020 12:48:28 -0500, dpb wrote:

On 4/27/2020 12:04 PM, Scott Lurndal wrote:
...

He's using an ancient adapter for non-grounded circuits. Many of them
predate the wide neutral blade.

The proper solution is to not use those adapters.

Yeah, just cut off the ground prong instead...

Or just replacethe outlet - replace with a GFCI if there is no ground
available and document it as required by code


whooosh...

Sounds like a plumber commenting on electric work.
Clare is right.

406.4(D)(2)(b) A non€“grounding-type receptacle(s) shall be permitted
to be replaced with a ground-fault circuit interrupter-type
of receptacle(s). These receptacles or their cover plates shall be
marked €œNo Equipment Ground.€� An equipment grounding
conductor shall not be connected from the ground-fault
circuit-interrupter-type receptacle to any outlet supplied from
the ground-fault circuit-interrupter receptacle.

double-whoosh...

Don't get a snide remark, do you...

maybe stoopid - but I don't get the "whoosh". Doesn't look like
Fretwell does either - anyone else???

Since you ask: FTR, "whoosh" means "the previous remark went over your
head", and made a whoosh sound as it went quickly over your head.

I guess it's usually used when the previous remark was satire or sarcasm
that was taken seriously.

Maybe we don't think telling people in a home repair group to cut off
the ground pin is funny.
It will be far more dangerous than this virus is for most people.