SHEESH!  When I was 12 my Dad had me rewire the entire second floor in our
house.  It meant removing hundreds of feed of 1930's/1940's era cables and
replacing with modern stuff.

Andy


At 08:17 AM 12/2/02 +0000, you wrote:
>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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