More old mains sockets removed

 Workshopshed only thing I can say is thank god I dont live in the UK! 220 mains~ that will kill you if you get wrapped up in it. I have been bitten by US mains (120) and Im still here!! When I lived in Asbury Park I lived in a Victorian, and did rehab on it. First problem was Knob and Tubing, then no safety ground, ouch. This pic from my house in Farmers Branch, North Dallas. The SOB used a doubled up single box and had the wires bare going from one box to another.  Plus the ground wire, bare-bright copper ground never went to the send box. I don't think the switches had grounds. But the use of the two boxes instead of double gang and the stunt with the wires where VERBOTEN!.  

 phoenixcomm Don't forget the shared neutral that was commonplace up to about 2011.  You can still get bit by the grounded circuit conductor - even if the breaker is open - on a shared neutral system. 

 kmikemoo Not in new construction, But it did happen to me twice. once when I lived in Princeton, NJ. the  house used Wire-mold  (metal) all around the house the problem that he assumed the metal stayed a 'good" ground!! when I use the metal conduit or Wire-mold I always with out exception a bare-bright!!! The other time I was living in LA by the beach but worked for Hughes Aircraft. I was doing both sustaining engineer of the Satellite ATE, and support in the High Bay where we worked on the birds there were normally about 8 or so in the bay at any one time  and my lab was connected the high bay they used to come to me with problems, They had a brand new hp spectrum analyzer that was rack mounted and It would not say running it would reboot and when they got it back from test equipment repair, the problem persisted. So I was asked to look at it as they really needed the beast. well I plugged it in put an antenna  on it and listened to FM!! The next day it was still running so I told them to come and get it, and it passed with flying colors. later that day they came back and told me it rebooted again. I grabbed my Fluke and went to the high bay. I opened the back of the rack it was a maze of alligator clips and wire! I basically said WTF! And while leaning on the rack with one hand and the other on the clip. Well I got knocked to the floor. I told them I would return a little later and pulled out the 100a pull-out. I went upstairs to my boss and told him what happened, I told him what I thought was wrong, he promptly agreed.  I grabbed a 100a lock-out device, and called the guy in charge of the gantry crane!  Remember I was doing sustaining? I was for the ATE's Power Controller unit which was under the floor! Meanwhile back on the floor as my jack-stands appeared (floor was about 10x10') and the crane started moving Flight came down to find out what the hell I was doing. as my boss was over flight as we controlled the high-bay I told him to call my boss. At that time we attached the rings to the ATE system and started to lift it. The RF-guy came over and ask the same thing he said I would damage the wave guide. so I told him to uncouple it. I got the box opened up and saw was the ass-holes did. In the Box there Is a 100A breaker, and a 100+A RFI filter. CAN YOU GUESS WHAT WAS WRONG! Should be Pull-Out, RFI  Filter, Circuit Beaker... NOPE they had in Pull-Out, Circuit Beaker, RFI Filter. and one side shorted to ground.. I went upstairs to my office and grabbed out of a new box the RFI-Filter, and Circuit Breaker. Replaced them both and check to system, shut it down and REMOVED THE RATS NEST of Gator Clips!! ~~ Cris BTW each one of the ATE in the bay was Inspected half where wired wrong!!

 kmikemoo Not in new construction, But it did happen to me twice. once when I lived in Princeton, NJ. the  house used Wire-mold  (metal) all around the house the problem that he assumed the metal stayed a 'good" ground!! when I use the metal conduit or Wire-mold I always with out exception a bare-bright!!! The other time I was living in LA by the beach but worked for Hughes Aircraft. I was doing both sustaining engineer of the Satellite ATE, and support in the High Bay where we worked on the birds there were normally about 8 or so in the bay at any one time  and my lab was connected the high bay they used to come to me with problems, They had a brand new hp spectrum analyzer that was rack mounted and It would not say running it would reboot and when they got it back from test equipment repair, the problem persisted. So I was asked to look at it as they really needed the beast. well I plugged it in put an antenna  on it and listened to FM!! The next day it was still running so I told them to come and get it, and it passed with flying colors. later that day they came back and told me it rebooted again. I grabbed my Fluke and went to the high bay. I opened the back of the rack it was a maze of alligator clips and wire! I basically said WTF! And while leaning on the rack with one hand and the other on the clip. Well I got knocked to the floor. I told them I would return a little later and pulled out the 100a pull-out. I went upstairs to my boss and told him what happened, I told him what I thought was wrong, he promptly agreed.  I grabbed a 100a lock-out device, and called the guy in charge of the gantry crane!  Remember I was doing sustaining? I was for the ATE's Power Controller unit which was under the floor! Meanwhile back on the floor as my jack-stands appeared (floor was about 10x10') and the crane started moving Flight came down to find out what the hell I was doing. as my boss was over flight as we controlled the high-bay I told him to call my boss. At that time we attached the rings to the ATE system and started to lift it. The RF-guy came over and ask the same thing he said I would damage the wave guide. so I told him to uncouple it. I got the box opened up and saw was the ass-holes did. In the Box there Is a 100A breaker, and a 100+A RFI filter. CAN YOU GUESS WHAT WAS WRONG! Should be Pull-Out, RFI  Filter, Circuit Beaker... NOPE they had in Pull-Out, Circuit Beaker, RFI Filter. and one side shorted to ground.. I went upstairs to my office and grabbed out of a new box the RFI-Filter, and Circuit Breaker. Replaced them both and check to system, shut it down and REMOVED THE RATS NEST of Gator Clips!! ~~ Cris BTW each one of the ATE in the bay was Inspected half where wired wrong!!