[SOC] Need advice from SOCs

[Carl Strode]

Clipping off the neutral prong love handles will definitely not burn 
your house down.

  I can attest to that since the handy homeowners that wired, re-wired 
and "improved" my house over the years swapped hot and neutral 
connections with reckless abandon in almost exactly half of the outlets, 
sockets, etc, in my 50-year old abode.  Better yet, I have even 
discovered copper and aluminum cables connected with wire nuts - still 
no fires.

There are still a few outlets that don't work due to corroded or loose 
connections.  I have been slowly remediating these quaint artifacts of 
pure SOC engineering as the lights blink or go out at random.  It was 
scary at first, but now since I've increased my life and fire insurance 
coverage, life is good.

Hope I'm still here tomorrow

Carl
WA7CS

On 12/8/2018 11:02 AM, w7dra at juno.com wrote:
> teh whole world is tryihg to make everythihng idiot proof (why use speel check?) the fat prong is neutral the small one is hot if you use (like i do) transformerless hv power supplies is is best to know where the neutral and the hot reside.........but i digress mike w7dra
>
> ---------- Original Message ----------
> From: Tom McCulloch <thom2 at att.net>
> To: soc at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: [SOC] Need advice from SOCs
> Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2018 13:30:27 -0500
>
> Hi gang,
>
>    Well it's the Holiday season again and once more I've waited until it
> was cold enough to put the holiday lights up outside of the house.
>
> Seeing as though I have had a lot of these lights quite a while, about
> half of them have the older plug and half the newer one (by that I mean
> some have the plugs where both prongs are the same size and some have
> one prong larger than the other ).
>
> I'm not quite sure what you call this phenomenon, but I call it a pain
> in the rear!  Particularity when it comes to trying to plug a new male
> into an old female.  Because the new plug is too large for the older
> receptical.
>
> My solution is to "modify" a newer extension cord by clipping the cord's
> offending male prong down to a smaller size that will fit into the
> female end of older string of lights.  The female end of the extension,
> cord, being newer will accept either a new or old string of lights.
>
>
> So, my question to this learned group is:  Will my house burn down?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tom WB2QDG
>
> SOC# errr, I forget
>
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>
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