[TheForge] Subject: Re: shop power

[Ron Childers]

I acquired 2 very large stranded 3 wire extension cords with new plugs.
I decided to ohm them before using and both had the wires crossed. If
you aren't certain who wired something better check.

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Sent: Friday, August 03, 2012 12:46 PM
To: Bob Ehrenberger; Blacksmithing List Sponsored by ABANA
Subject: Re: [TheForge] Subject: Re: shop power

It would have blown the fuse probably.
My whole shop was wired with the switches on the neutral. WAY back they
did it that way. It is very common on buildings wired before about 1920.

I am told that it was done because the knife type contacts in the switch
arced on the hot side. This killed the switches and was also a fire
hazard. My building also originally had fuses on both the hot and
neutral sides .

Mike Graf


On 8/3/2012 11:25 AM, Bob Ehrenberger wrote:
> When I lived in St. Louis, the previous owner had hired someone to 
> remodle the basement.  When I went to add a light over my pool table I

> discovered that the whole basement was wired with the hot lead going 
> to the lights and the switch on the neutral comming back. To make 
> things worse they made provisions to add a light later by putting a 
> wire in the suspended ceiling wired the same way, it was not even 
> capped or taped. I hate to think what would have happened if that wire
had touched the frame grid of the ceiling.
>
> Robert Ehrenberger
> Shelbyville, Mo.
> eforge at centurytel.net
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