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Posted Dec 12, 2012

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Swayzey45Original Poster

Dec 12, 2012

I installed 2 dimmer switches naked at my new apt. They turned out ok : )

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Steve
Dec 12, 2012
Oneassumesthat you were wearing at least your insulating footwear ;)
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Tom === Thomas S. Tierney
Dec 13, 2012
I always wear clothes during home repairs. My handy man would be embarrassed if I were nude.
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ManOfWicklow
Dec 13, 2012
People should never do any job without the correct footwear.
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Cheri Donna Dawson
Dec 13, 2012
[quote]I installed 2 dimmer switches naked at my new apt. They turned out ok : )[/quote]

I painted the outside of my house with mostly just sneakers on 3 sides of the house and a long-sleeve tshirt at the front. Glad we've got some trees in the front.

Wearing trifocal (progressive) lenses, it's difficult getting things put into place. The fixture over our guest bathroom needs someone who wears either single vision lenses or no glasses to get it back up. I almost got one screw back in but when trying to get the final one placed, the first fell out. Anyone want to visit Hopkins, SC?!! Hot tub is great.
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Steve
Dec 13, 2012
I was working on a house a while back which had a highly polished hardwood floor and a strict no-shoes rule that applied to guests, the handyman, the furniture movers, everybody. The electricians were the exception; for safety reasons they absolutely would not work without their non-conductive shoes.
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ManOfWicklow
Dec 13, 2012
[img src="http://i.chzbgr.com/completestore/12/4/30/QyThhm3YHU6eG3pBEQXYdA2.jpg">
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womannudista
Dec 13, 2012
I imagine that you snip the electricity just in case before hehe

Imagino que cortarÃas la electricidad por si acaso antes jeje
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Steve
Dec 13, 2012
What, and spoil all the excitement?
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preacherbch
Dec 17, 2013
i never wear clothes around the home,and being alone at home one day,I wanted to put in a globe,or as you say,a light bulb,and I in a moment of ignorance,switched the light switch on to see if the globe would burn,and I was naked...I touched the copper part and recieved the shock of my life....but in a way,it was rather a wierdly enjoyable shock...if that can make any sense....i was fully naked and barefoot...
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Grant
Jan 2, 2014
Fixed some defect light fittings.
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ManOfWicklow
Jan 3, 2014
Only a fool would do any job without the correct footwear.
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Member
Jan 4, 2014
I have changed electrical switches and recepticals whilst naked, never an issue, but I always pull the breaker, and I alwas check the circuit with a meter before I turn screws!
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Keith
Jan 4, 2014
I too am a Sparkie, and had my share of belts from the mains power sources, electric fences and electrical equipment etc.
More from carelessness than lack of appropriate footwear, clothing, insulated tools and wooden ladders.
However I had to replace the 1st floor circuit breaker last night, so switched off the main house breaker, and swapped the 1st and 2nd floor breakers so I could watch a good TV show last night.
Yes I was totally naked I used insulated tools, even though the house was isolated and I made sure i didn't touch any bare wires or contacts just as a precaution.
Today I will have to wear clothes when I go to buy a new breaker, but i will be totally NAKED when I install the new one.
I weld and do most chores naked, I am just more vigilant when I am naked.
My worst burn from when I was welding was when some hot slag bounce up off the floor and into my safety boots, couldn't get the Bl---- boot off quick enough to prevent a serious burn. When barefoot the slag just bounces off without burning.
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Steve
Jan 4, 2014
When yourelyon clicking off the electricity, you are staking your life on the electrician's skill. A switch will work fine in either the live wire or the ground - but if the switch is in the ground wire, and your body supplies a new ground, you're toast. Of course, switch the light off; better, go to the breaker panel, which is much more likely to be wired correctly, and switch it off there. And then make sure your feet and your free hand are not touching anything that conducts electricity.

I have had an experienced contractor, who had to do a piece of wiring outside our new house while he was on a social call with his wife, ask me to come with him. We didn't explain to his wife why - one of his precautions was never to stick his hand in a meter box (which cannot be switched off) unless someone was nearby to pull him away in case a shock was causing him to reflexively clutch the wire that was killing him. This is not as silly a precaution as it sounds.
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rolie100
Jan 5, 2014
First thing with electricity is to switch it of. I think that is the safest way to work with it. I often do these things naked and without footwear, including the installation of a new kitchen.
stay naked and work safe, Roland
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ManOfWicklow
Jan 5, 2014
The incompetence and stupidity of people who THINK they know what they're doing,is beyond belief.
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Tom === Thomas S. Tierney
Jan 5, 2014
"beyond belief"? No it isn't, I believe it.
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rolie100
Jan 5, 2014
sorry for being so stupid and incompetent
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ManOfWicklow
Jan 5, 2014
[quote]sorry for being so stupid and incompetent[/quote]

That's ok,Roland, we all make mistakes. I have been a proffesional electrician for forty years,and my advice to staying safe,isalwayshave correct footwear for the job.

Whatever kind of work you are doing,always think of what could go wrong and how you can avoid a nasty accident. Thousands of people are seriously injured or killed in the construction industry every year. Most of these (wrongly named) accidents should not occur,if people just use a little common sense. True meaning of accident, is, unavoidable event. As most are avoidable,they are not accidents, they are the result of carelessness.

Wishing all a happy safe (nude where possible) life,

MOW.
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Keith
Jan 6, 2014
[quote]When yourelyon clicking off the electricity, you are staking your life on the electrician's skill. A switch will work fine in either the live wire or the ground - but if the switch is in the ground wire, and your body supplies a new ground, you're toast. Of course, switch the light off; better, go to the breaker panel, which is much more likely to be wired correctly, and switch it off there. And then make sure your feet and your free hand are not touching anything that conducts electricity.

I have had an experienced contractor, who had to do a piece of wiring outside our new house while he was on a social call with his wife, ask me to come with him. We didn't explain to his wife why - one of his precautions was never to stick his hand in a meter box (which cannot be switched off) unless someone was nearby to pull him away in case a shock was causing him to reflexively clutch the wire that was killing him. This is not as silly a precaution as it sounds.
[/quote]I agree Steve, in Aus there are lots of rules that have to adhered too in regards electrical installations, but over here in Vietnam, there is none (if there are nobody follows them)

Colour codes for wires = whatever you have on hand, active and neutral doesn't matter use the same colour it saves confusion. Join wire in junction or switch boxes just twist them tightly and wrap a bit of tape over the join it should stop the joint becoming loose.

Stairwell lighting pick an active on one floor, neutral from the other floor. if you want a 2-way circuit that can be turned on or off from either floor, feed active to one switch pole and neutral to the other , the centre pole goes to the light. Same on other floor, so if you isolate one floor you get feed back thru the light to the other floor.

Only safe way to work on any fixed wiring in any house here is to isolate the power at the main breaker built into the meter housing. At least they cant mess with that but from there on user beware.

Oh and we dont have earth wires here either and I suspect the active and neutral (of the 240V supply ) are both 120V above earth but with out a true earth connection one cannot test that theory plus the water distribution internal and external is all in plastic pipes so cant use them as an earth either

Also yes the buddy system works well but I hope he told you how to grab him should he get hooked up, definitely not by skin to skin contact . Also working with electricity systems over 55 years and still being alive means I must have done something right.

In my experience the one that is stuck in my mind is where an experienced electrician working on a LIVE 24/7 commercial business buss bar and switching unit dropped the tool he was working with. All his protective gear and safety precautions did nothing for him.

The tool landed across two high voltage copper buss bars and the arc once initiated vapourised the whole system into a molten copper plasma. The poor guy didn't suffer, his leather safety gear and skin was ripped from his body like it was paper towel.Both he and and the brick wall behind him were coated a thin film of copper which to this day the wall still has his image etched in copper on it. His safety buddy was blow out the open doorway basically uninjured except from some bruises and burns on exposed skin. But he was mentally scarred and would never work on any live equipment again.
Electricity is like fire a comfort and great friend , but never turn your back on either , they are real killers.
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Keith
Jan 7, 2014
[quote][quote] accidents should not occur,if people just use a little common sense. [/quote]I used to think that too MOW, but these days everything has to be done by the book, commonsense is not factored into book as it open to interpretation, and differs from one person to a next. I have been in Industry, teaching, the military and the fire services.
Working with the current swag of peoples in those professions these days it horrifying to see how little people use their commonsense within their work environment ... sad but true these days.
and we are nudist and talking about electricity and some of the pitfalls that can befall our fellow nudist working with electricity whilst nude, so where has it gone off topic
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