Did a bit of rewiring to remove a bypass to an old light socket with exposed live pre-romex wiring. Probably left a few of my own no-nos for future home owners. Forgot to take pictures of the old wiring, but maybe thats for the best, it had been running a freezer for many years. You could just touch it at any time and zap yourself.
If you solved a shocking outlet then that's the most important & dangerous thing put to bed. Kudos & good job. Next time it doesn't have to be an outdoor box, a cheap handy box would have worked. Also if your circuit has yellow (20 amp) Romex then all of it should be 20 amp wire. I just had to fix this very thing in a remodel where I added a couple of outlets. Inspectors jump on stuff like this but you're home free...well until you sell
If this is on a 20 amp breaker, this is a massive fire hazard mixing different wire gauges
If this is on a 15 amp breaker, then you're fine
So why does the electric receptacle have two wires to it, are you feeding another receptacle or something from it?
This is not very dull.
Oh dear. Who's going to tell him?
CFL ✊️
My brain is cooked. I thought that first lightbulb pick was some homemade flashlight device before a lightbulb
the lightbulb made me think of an animal. got to love pareidolia.
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