My friend Mike’s brother is an electrician. He also likes donuts and is in training as a nuclear power-plant operator. Does that help?
Isn’t escocheon Portuguese for ‘trench’?
Aiiee! I think that inverted my power! I feel like it’s never going to end!
:: looks at tab of browser ::
Oh, wait a minute. It’s looping. Thank Og that was only twenty minutes.
Sure. Donuts always help. You can hand a few out to the cops who respond if you’ve forgotten to turn off the power.
No, it’s Portuguese for skin of a potato tool substitute.
Be careful, or you’ll shoot your eye out.
Jokes aside, it’s standard practice for electrical work to leave three layers of protection, any one of which would be sufficient. That is to say, using an insulated tool should, by itself, be enough protection. Turning off the switch should be enough protection. Turning off the circuitbreaker should be enough protection. But any of these methods could fail. Your hand holding the tool could slip and bump something. The house might be wired incorrectly. Someone could wander along and absent-mindedly flip the switch. You could accidentally get the wrong circuitbreaker. But even if one of your layers of protection might fail, it’s highly unlikely that all three would. So use all three.
So what you are saying is make sure the power is off before using the Super Duper Dopr Tuber?
Say mate, would you have a whiff of this power? It smells off to me. :dubious:
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Turn off the switch, or the breaker if you really don’t want any excitement in your life,
bust the bulb, and using needle nose pliers, bend the metal sides inward all the way around, and yank that sucker out! Potatoes? carrots? C’monI This ain’t Hints From Heloise.
But what if I happen to have a zombie potato sitting around? Can I skip the power off step?
One of the more sensible comments I’ve seen in SD, and always a propos.
Using needle-nose pliers, you can simply grasp the edge of the metal base and turn it. No need for destruction or force.
Why didn’t you come up with that answer 7 years ago? The poor guy’s been sitting in the dark all this time and nobody cares!
Bing!
So would a non-contact voltage tester identify this prior to sticking pliers into the socket? That’s how I always have done it- turn the switch on, verify that it’s indeed hot, turn it off, verify that it’s cold, and then use the pliers to remove the base.
If you’re not in a hurry, make a thick dough-ball (flour and water and salt). Pack it onto the bulb casing like a poultice, give it a day to harden.
Or, two screwdrivers, or one with a wide flat tip, rammed up through the base, should also do the trick.
This only has to be done once in a lifetime, after which one learns not to put them in so tight.
This is probably up-thread somewhere, but Im not going to search 134 posts to look for it.
zombie or no
the problem with deactivating a convenient nearby switch is that it is a convenient nearby switch.
it is easy that people there while working on the bulb extraction could accidentally bump the switch on. it is also possible that in a moment of non-clear thought that someone purposely (though stupidly in this situation) turns the switch on; that is something done many times a day and can be done easily, especially in a 3-way or 4-way switch situation. turning off the breaker/fuse is a purposeful distant action that has to be undone by a purposeful distant action.
very good on using a noncontact voltage testing and checking the wires before touching no matter what you have switched off.