Really? Guess you've never driven in my areas, I'd say it's the norm, not
the exception here! :) TTYL

> 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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