Electrical funny

RESLLS · Aug 11, 2016

This past weekend I did some wiring work for my daughter. She sent me this today.

Elmo · Aug 11, 2016

There are really people like that out there!

jeffcat · Aug 11, 2016

You betya. I know people who would believe that. There is a way to find the breaker and it works very well with 120 volt and 120 volts going in both directions. 240. I used to take a piece of 064 solder, make a horseshoe of it and stick it in the socket with a pair of really well insulated plyers. The solder melts in an instant and nothing gets hurt. Have found many un- marked breakers that way.

coshoo · Aug 11, 2016

Another easy way is to plug a radio into the socket and turn it up loud enough that you can hear it at the breaker panel. Flip breakers until the radio goes off.

in-too-deep · Aug 11, 2016

That's how I do it. Or a vacuum cleaner.

4520BW · Aug 11, 2016

Can you pinch it off with vise grips like a heater hose in the summer on my old truck?

old-9 · Aug 11, 2016

My co worker and I were working in a house and he tried that trick with the radio. Except it was my radio and he did not know it was battery back-up. Realy had him going for a while untill he told me what he was trying to do. Fun on the job. joe

Texasmark1 · Aug 11, 2016

This is cute, but on the water and electricity thing, I find that referring to water, of which most are familiar, is a perfect spring board to teaching electrical physics. But obviously bending the wire is not part of the tutorial.

Tech 7 · Aug 11, 2016

The radio thing made me laugh. I was working on a house that I lived in a bunch of years ago and had the clock radio plugged into the outlet I wanted to isolate. I shut off breakers one at a time and the radio kept playing. I finally Opened the main breaker and the radio STILL played! What the........?????????
Went upstairs to the radio and upon looking saw two words on it I had never seen before....Battery Backup.
At least my wife wasn't there to label me as an idiot. (that time)

rustyfarmall · Aug 11, 2016

If you kink it tight enough, that method might actually work, but then the circuit path would be interrupted and would never be functional again.

Tim in OR · Aug 12, 2016

When I was little, My Dad was building a new house for us. He had an extension cord hanging from the ceiling joist with a knot in it (to shorten it enough to keep from walking into it). I asked him why it had a knot it it. He simply told me it was to keep the JUICE from running out.
Tim in OR

Geo-TH,In · Aug 12, 2016

That's definitely qualifies as the funny for the day. I can't help but thinking this is BUBBA's safety idea. Bubba might use vice grips, attach wire to metal load center to ground it.
thanks, geo.

Texasmark1 · Aug 12, 2016

Cute. We refer to electrical current as JUICE too down here.

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