This is the exception not the norm.

Justin

-----Original Message-----
From: Wagner Lipnharski [mailto:wagner@USTR.NET]
Sent: Sunday, 1 December 2002 3:20 PM
To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: Re: [OT]: You need a licence Sir


Herbert Graf wrote:
>> I really must get around to accrediting myself a Queensland
>> Restricted Electrical Licence- it would then authorise me to perform
>> some really shoddy and dangerous work legally.
>>
>> Today I decided to install my new porch light (illegally) took off
>> the old bare socket open to the elements to find that the earth wire
>> had never been properly attached, in fact it had been held in place
>> by a  screw applying pressure to the insulation but at no point was
>> bare wire actually touching the ground connection of the original
>> socket. Along with the fact that I have found power wiring just hung
>> over a nail in the skin of the house and a dab of cement used to hold
>> it and the power outlet to the wall.
>>
>> This from a licensed Electrician. Oh yes even if I did have a
>> restricted licence it wouldn't cover me for domestic wiring only
>> industrial and 3phase.
>
>         Well, as I see as proof of this is on the roads every day,
> just because someone has a license to do something means they do it
> with their whole brain (or with 1% of their brain in some driver's
> cases). TTYL


I already got scared many times just looking to the electric mess at the
attic.
Clips holding wires against the wood bins are just to hold and route the
wires in place, not to strangle them and almost cut the outer and inner
insulation, and yes, there was one clip puncturing one wire... do I need a
license to fix all that mess? and do it nicely? if yes, then sue me, since
I already did it.

What really makes me mad, is open a wall switch boxe and find the naked
ground wire just "pushed" to the back ob the box by the "experienced
licensed pro" when assembling the switch or power outlet into the box.  I
wonder how many times the naked ground wire just touch the hot phase and
trip the system.

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