GORE, FUCKUPS, FAILS

[Anonymous No.1056463]

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[Anonymous No.1056464]

>>1056463

[Anonymous No.1056467]

>>1056464

[Anonymous No.1056469]

>>1056467

[Anonymous No.1056471]

>>1056469

OC from my car, somebody cut the wires in the rear quarter panel (Including the rear defroster) and "fixed" it by using these quicksplice connectors.

It caught on fire a few months ago while I was driving.

[Anonymous No.1056474]

>>1056471

OC from my job, battery terminal came loose on a scissor lift during a joyride on some dirt roads.

4 x 6v batteries configured for 24v.

The lead terminal actually melted along with the undersized battery cable.

[Anonymous No.1056476]

>>1056474

More OC from my job. The guy I replaced left a bit of a mess for me behind the pilot house dash.

[Anonymous No.1056478]

>>1056476

Even more OC, project car.

[Anonymous No.1056481]

>>1056478

[Anonymous No.1056536]

>>1056464
Not really /diy/ gore as these are produced commercially

[Anonymous No.1056557]

>>1056481
an engine makes a pretty decent stamping machine

[Anonymous No.1056559]

>>1056536
not gore anyway

[Anonymous No.1056563]

>>1056559
the wiring job isn't gore?

[Anonymous No.1056574]

one of my favs

[Anonymous No.1056575]

This is more cringe.. but "muh trigger"

[Anonymous No.1056577]

And the winrar of the
nope of the year award.

[Anonymous No.1056581]

>All this third world electrical

The weird thing is, you go to some of these countries and its not like all of them think electricity is white man magic or powered by unicorns- they just don't give a fuck

[Anonymous No.1056597]

>>1056478
Is that a GD 90s SAAB??

[Anonymous No.1056633]

Hmmmmmmm

[Anonymous No.1056634]

>>1056633
What's wrong with this all your electronics would run twice as fast

[Anonymous No.1056635]

>>1056476
>>1056478
nice oc anon

[Anonymous No.1056645]

>>1056633
da fak

[Anonymous No.1056672]

>>1056577
explain

[Anonymous No.1056676]

>>1056463
Except he's not burning down his house. That's a redneck way to do that, but not uncommon. This is like a small splinter in the diy gore world.

[Anonymous No.1056679]

>>1056645
Accidentally the wrong connections in the panel.

[Anonymous No.1056688]

>>1056633
surprise, motherfucker!

[Anonymous No.1056693]

>>1056633
Must suck not having 240v standards.

[Anonymous No.1056698]

>>1056672
The theory is someone grounded an electric device to the gas line, and the flex line being so thin is glowing red hot from all the electricity running through it.

[Anonymous No.1056706]

>>1056672
They earthed something to the gas pipe

If gas pipe is ever damaged it becomes a flamethrower

[Anonymous No.1056717]

>>1056597

1985 900 SPG, how'd you know?

Working on finding a 70s 99 like pic related.

[Anonymous No.1056729]

>>1056717
I hae one, '85 in fact also..if you ever owned one or like them at all they are pretty recognizable...I miss her..looking for another but they are pretty hit or miss..either ragged to hell by an idiot or way over priced because 'rare and dat Swedish engineering'.

[Anonymous No.1056730]

Found this a little while ago, some mong cut through a bunch of these

[Anonymous No.1056750]

>>1056633
How do you like that Multimeter?

[Anonymous No.1056763]

>>1056730
Did some mother Fulkerson cut through steel support beams? Must be some Chinese engineering.

[Anonymous No.1056796]

>>1056633
Did someone put another hot on the neutral screw?

[Anonymous No.1056799]

>>1056672
>>1056698
>>1056706

It may also have been grounded to a water line, which is common practice among non-certified DIYers. They then moronically grounded to the hot instead of the cold line, and thus grounded through the water heater. From the heater, it grounds to the gas line, since the gas line is most likely buried and the water lines are not (after all, if the water line was buried, how could a dipshit put a ground clamp on it?).

Then you just need a ground short somewhere in the house and boom.

FWIW, if I was called to a repair and saw that pic IRL, I would fucking run and call 911 to have the FD take care of it. That's some scary shit.

[Anonymous No.1056805]

>>1056717
Man that car is 200℅ slav

[Anonymous No.1056806]

>>1056730
>>1056763
>Cut through the web at mid-span (assumed)
Ugly but not a big deal
>See that they cut through the flange and web at mid-span
You fucked up. Flange takes all the moment at midspan. RIP.

Makes me want to do pic related for whoever said that this was ok.

[Anonymous No.1056821]

>>1056676
Breakers will usually trip internally regardless of what people do to the switch.

[Anonymous No.1056824]

>>1056467

[Anonymous No.1056850]

>>1056706
That's how you make a flammenwerfer.

It werfs flammens.

[Anonymous No.1056854]

>>1056672
the camera caught an orange light and traced the path someone shook as they held it before the shot was captured

[Anonymous No.1056858]

>>1056821
That's why I'm saying it's not much for gore. Drilling a hole and using copper wire is redneck, but that's the only gore part.

[Anonymous No.1056863]

>>1056577
This is before turning out the lights.

>>1056698
That's the story I heard

But that wallboard and weird looking catch pan thingy.

[Anonymous No.1056880]

>>1056693
probably fed off a 3 phase 208v panel. should still only be 120v~ being that that is a 5-15r

[Anonymous No.1056882]

>>1056717
not that anon - but I recognised the unmistakable boost gauge, plus I had to remove the seats from my 88 900 turbo to fix the heating elements once

[Anonymous No.1057021]

>>1056824
>>1056467
>Jump out of window to commit suicide
>Die by electrocution

[Anonymous No.1057052]

>>1056574
Ah, the russian LED

[Anonymous No.1057064]

>>1056824
>>1056467
what you have here is a crackhead bug zapper.
>crackhead tries to steal loose copper wire
>explodes into sparks

[Anonymous No.1057311]

>>1056863

[Anonymous No.1057553]

>>1056467
GREAT SCOTT!

[Anonymous No.1057554]

>>1056474
Get the fuck away gron that thing anon. I've got a scar on my chin from taking a battery terminal to the face. Ive had 2 batteries blow up in my face and im only 30. Batteries are more dangerous that the series of controlled explosions they help power.

[Anonymous No.1057558]

>>1057553
That fucking filename

[Anonymous No.1057783]

>>1057558
Lol, was helping pizzacutter bro with his overenginered to hell (i hope) pizza cutter. Im still votting nitro or gtfo.

[Anonymous No.1057801]

>>1056478
>>1056476
>>1056474
Fuck I had a lot of OC from my job but I purged my phone pictures not too long ago

[Anonymous No.1058065]

>>1056467
oh it gets worse

http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/films/powerless/

[Anonymous No.1058070]

>>1057052
> russian LED

Here, this is the last of my keks, please, take it. I insist.

[Anonymous No.1058072]

>>1058065
>http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/films/powerless/
>stripping mains with teeth
holy shit.

[Anonymous No.1058076]

>>1056463
That wouldn't keep the fuse on even if it tripped. The internal parts would trigger and disconnect. so you would need to bring the switch to the off position to catch the mechanism and pull it back up to engage it again.

Whats done in the picture is just stupid and tricks uneducated people into thinking its "dangerous" and would work..

IF you really would need to keep a fuse alive there are automated fuse flippers.

[Anonymous No.1058079]

>>1058072
it's a good documentary, worth watching...I'll try to find a working copy, but here is a taste: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOgr8QFwL7Y

the gore seriously goes up a notch...I don't remember if anyone gets electrocuted on camera or not, I thought maybe an animal did

[Anonymous No.1058081]

>>1058079
this one works
http://vidspot.net/di8g4ywp995x

[Anonymous No.1058101]

>>1056863
>>1056577
JESUS CHRIST

[Anonymous No.1058823]

>>1056464
Every electric shower in Brazil.

[Anonymous No.1059148]

[Anonymous No.1059149]

[Anonymous No.1059150]

[Anonymous No.1059154]

[Anonymous No.1059156]

[Anonymous No.1059159]

bonus jury rig

[Anonymous No.1059249]

>>1059150
Extremely common for utility workers to do this. Not a problem.

[Anonymous No.1059252]

>>1059150
You know that cable is good for literally thousands of pounds, right?

>>1059249
Ssssh. Your job depends on the perception of people that it is extremely complex and dangerous.

[Anonymous No.1059469]

>>1057783
I like the multi axis Spicer slicer robot

[Anonymous No.1059489]

customer got water in their watch. decided to dry it in the oven

[Anonymous No.1059495]

>>1059252
>>1059249
It is more about the ladder damaging the insulation of the wires as well as the worker improperly putting the ladder up in the first place.

While it is apparently a fiberglass ladder, there's no padding where the is touching the wires.

[Anonymous No.1059502]

>>1056469
>Earths it
>Literal bucket of Earth

Lolwut

[Anonymous No.1059606]

>>1059156
What's going on in this one? Is that a lamp which is held in place by means including a copper wire (connected to anything or not) wrapped around a possibly steel pipe?

[Anonymous No.1059654]

>>1059495
>there's no padding where the is touching the wires.
It's probably 750 hung underneath a braided steel messenger. Even if the ladder is resting on it, it won't hurt it at all.

t. Ex Comcast field maintenance tech

[Anonymous No.1059678]

>>1059606
That copper wire is the ground wire. I could be wrong, but it looks like they just looped it around a PVC pipe?

[Anonymous No.1059679]

>>1059495
You are seriously full of shit. This is how you work on cables.

t. Ex Verizon/GTE tech.

[Anonymous No.1059685]

>>1059679
>You are seriously full of shit. This is how you work on cables.
>t. Ex Verizon/GTE tech.
I'm >>1059654

Dumbass in 9495 has probably never had to use the ladder hooks

[Anonymous No.1059703]

Homeowner installed tree straps with out probing first. These are 1" feeder lines and didn't know why the system made a giant fucking hole

[Anonymous No.1059707]

>>1059654
this

t. current Vz tech

[Anonymous No.1059740]

>>1056464
I had one of that shower.
I never understood why I use it for 3 years.

[Anonymous No.1059744]

>>1059740
the shower water isn't a completely constant stream so it cant hold a current

the wires around it are still the path of least resistance, and not your body

i could understand a risk of fire or corrosion but not just getting shocked taking a shower. if they were killing people left and right, why would they be being used?

what I wonder is if they can even heat water fast/well enough for a nice steamy soak. I'd be worried about them being low quality in general rather than unsafe

[Anonymous No.1059754]

>>1059744
They're 220v direct immersion heaters. I heard they were actually real fuckin hot.

They certainly do kill people though, but something does need to go wrong probably.

[Anonymous No.1059816]

>>1056467
One good storm or earthquake and every shitskin that lives there is ducked when that falls over.

[Anonymous No.1059843]

>>1056633
>not running at 9000.1
whats wrong with you

[Anonymous No.1059902]

>>1056575
Please tell me that was done on purpose, as a joke

[Anonymous No.1059906]

>>1056634
Kek

Captcha: 223, I think I will >>>/k/ now, this is a sign from Kek

[Anonymous No.1059919]

>>1056469

I'm choosing to believe that the intention here was to earth it against the railing, and the bucket is just there to keep it in place

Still tarded but less so

[Anonymous No.1059928]

>>1056717
neat

[Anonymous No.1060084]

>>1056805
Scandinavia is not THAT far east.

[Anonymous No.1060132]

>>1059744
>>1059754
A friend had one.

You could feel a very faint electrical charge when you got into the shower. Felt like about 12v 2 amps, from what I feel when doing shit with AC/DC adapters and such. It was a bit of a sting sometimes. I'll never use one again.

[Anonymous No.1060169]

>>1060132
>it felt like 2A

[Anonymous No.1060171]

>>1056464
Are those the Brazilian showers?

[Anonymous No.1060175]

>>1060169

Ha, yea he would be quite dead.

[Anonymous No.1060198]

>>1059744
the shower doesn't need to hold a current, you get zapped by touching the faucet if it's made of metal and you're wet.

[Anonymous No.1060241]

>>1056863
Good god, is that gas pipe red hot?? I'm /diy/-impaired, but would grounding something to that pipe really do that, and why doesn't the gas inside ignite? Why doesn't the wall it's attached to catch on fire?

[Anonymous No.1060245]

>>1059489
customer obviously wasm't aware wristwatches are the cousinns of Shrinky Dinks

[Anonymous No.1060251]

>>1059678
That's not PVC, looks like galvanized

[Anonymous No.1060255]

>>1060241
>why doesnt the gas inside ignite
No oxidizer->no combustion. That's why your car engine needs air and jets don't work in space.

[Anonymous No.1060257]

>>1059703
?Are those for power distribution? Also what's the punishment for doing that?

[Anonymous No.1060259]

>>1056575
>not even wrapped the right way around the screw

[Anonymous No.1060262]

>>1056730
I don't see what's so ba- Jesus Fucking Christ

[Anonymous No.1060279]

>>1056574
That gives me the willies just looking at it.

[Anonymous No.1060303]

>>1059149
Really, the only thing I see wrong with this is that the 2x6 doesn't appear to be fastened to the ladder, and the ladder doesn't seem to be braced against slipping out latterally from under the board by anything other than downward pressure.

Sure, he's not using a cherrypicker with 30 diffeent safety swtiches and a tripple redundant safety harness. He probably didn't call in the electric company to shut down the dangerous overhead wires to the entire block (cause you know, that's the only way to be certain) and GASP! He doesn't have a full fire department standing by ready to administer aid! He's dead already!

[Anonymous No.1060304]

>>1059489
Keep all the pieces, get them working again and sell it as a Dali inspired watch.

There's nothing wrong with making a profit off the stupidity of others, provided it was entirely their fault and no further harm will come to said idiot by you making said profit.

[Anonymous No.1060305]

>>1056469
#properlugrounded.

Dear osha/msha/DOT. pleasd fuckoff and die. Slowly

[Anonymous No.1060306]

>>1056474
Lol, saw u anon. Still tho. Watch that shit nigga. Them mutherfuckers melt together internally and explode in your face. Been there.

[Anonymous No.1060307]

>>1056536
No. Eveey single thing remotly required to plug in and have water inside of ot needs to fuckoff.

[Anonymous No.1060309]

>>1059469
Its not a bad idea. Lol. I also pizza ninja voter. #airpiston

[Anonymous No.1060311]

>>1059744
In 3rd world shitty watter probably come frome heated mudpeople river and heated shower head is a meme...

[Anonymous No.1060312]

>>1060307
Enjoy pulling water out of your well with hand pumps or buckets, hauling it into your house, then heaing it up on the stove to take a bath, or pouring it into your toilet to flush.

Unless you're one of the "even my blender runs on gas" douches.

[Anonymous No.1060319]

>>1060257
I like to sit on these things

[Anonymous No.1060324]

>>1059606
They grounded it on a gas pipe.
You ground on water pipes, but never, ever let electric touch a gas pipe.

[Anonymous No.1060326]

>>1060319
Nice and warm in the winter.

[Anonymous No.1060332]

>>1056464
>live in third world country
>have showered with one for years
>haven't died yet
White people are scared easily

[Anonymous No.1060342]

>>1060332
>White people

lel we just can't believe that other cultures can't pull themselves up enough to live in half-decent conditions.

But have fun in your shithole, paco.

[Anonymous No.1060360]

>>1059150
Comcastfag here. Why the fuck isn't the hook staying over the stand? Also pull back the ladder base some. Cable god is not pleased.

[Anonymous No.1060386]

OC/DC

[Anonymous No.1060387]

>>1060386
One more. This one I did, but the fiber jumper was laying on the floor when I got there.

[Anonymous No.1060401]

>>1060175
Considering I've had live 12v 2a AC/DC adapter wires in my mouth, no.

[Anonymous No.1060409]

>>1060401

Do you not understand that voltage determines how much current can flow through your body.

You can touch a <2 volt 500+ amp spot welder all day long.

[Anonymous No.1060430]

>>1056633
We had an UNMARKED outlet like that running emergency lights when I was stationed in Diego Garcia. Found out the hard way when we fried some equipment by plugging it into the second outlet. That was when we found out that ALL the emergency lights were wired that way. Luckily the outlet was 7 feet in the air, or the first vacuum cleaner plugged in would have been a spectacular cook off.

[Anonymous No.1060439]

>>1060332
....because insurance dosnt cover beying retarded
and why dont you get a proper water heater/boiler

[Anonymous No.1060452]

>>1060257
That is a transformer and distribution box.

If you still into it generally the punishment is $10k + the cost to repair and if it was the high voltage side youre probably dead and don't even know it.

The guy you were responding to was water pipes, thus why it made a hole. It dug out the surrounding dirt.

[Anonymous No.1060476]

>>1060439
No gas lines, and this isn't my house so I'm not about to install an electric water heater; I know it doesn't cover being retarded but a properly installed electric shower isn't dangerous.

[Anonymous No.1060499]

[Anonymous No.1060508]

>>1060476
what shithole is it?

[Anonymous No.1060519]

>>1056463
Wouldn't affect the functioning of my breakers, just make it a pain in the ass to reset. When mine trip, the switch remains in position and you have to turn it off then back on to reset it.

But, it varies by manufacturer. An older version of this retarded trick is sticking a penny under a screw-in fuse.

[Anonymous No.1060527]

>>1060476

They sell them in the UK and they comply to british standards (the most anal retentive safety levels in the world) just in a different wall mounted housing so dont let any of these people fool you into thinking your product is subpar

[Anonymous No.1060530]

Always a classic

[Anonymous No.1060542]

[Anonymous No.1060565]

>>1060530
thats unfortunate but it doesnt seem like its really their fault

ive had plugs with grounds break too, it's a thing that happens. fuck you dude

[Anonymous No.1060570]

>>1060565
>fuck you dude
My comment was pretty benign, I don't see how you could infer anything insulting from "Always a classic"

[Anonymous No.1060610]

>>1060542
Is it that the pipes are really thin?

[Anonymous No.1060616]

>>1060530
Screw slots not lined up piss me off too, anon.

[Anonymous No.1060618]

>>1060439
Insurance certainly does cover people being general morons. Its one of the reasons premiums cost so much.

[Anonymous No.1060620]

>>1059754
>>1059744
>>1060132
>>1060198

I live in Brazil, it is pretty damn rare to hear about people dying because of the showers. And when it happens it is because some idiot is playing around live wires and not when he is taking a fucking bath.

[Anonymous No.1060640]

>>1060255
Also, why you can weld on a diesel tank as long as you stay below the diesel

[Anonymous No.1060647]

>>1060499
lol

[Anonymous No.1060651]

Greetings from Russia!

[Anonymous No.1060703]

>>1057052
lol

[Anonymous No.1060705]

>>1060610
The paint on the wall I think.

[Anonymous No.1060713]

>>1060332
Gotta love the wire nuts outside the housing to short. More-so the outlet that has clearly shorted previously.

[Anonymous No.1060714]

>>1060499
Assuming it is stud mounted, it's "ok".

[Anonymous No.1060721]

>>1060542
I can't even.

[Anonymous No.1060727]

>>1060332
That shit exploded over my head 3 times before I could buy a new one.

[Anonymous No.1060730]

>>1060727
>exploded 3 times
that is pretty sturdy, might even be a built in function, maybe the explosion is water filtering

[Anonymous No.1060732]

>>1060319
Do you like testicular cancer, too?

[Anonymous No.1060733]

>>1060499
>head lacerations from brackets on the bottom

No thanks.

>that weird ass detour in the pipe on the right wall

[Anonymous No.1060734]

>>1060332
>White people

No one reports all the brown people deaths from these things.

[Anonymous No.1060736]

>>1056464
>>1059744
>>1059754
>>1060620

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNjA0aee07k

[Anonymous No.1060743]

>>1060565
>ive had plugs with grounds break too
>it's a thing that happens

[Anonymous No.1060745]

>>1060732
from what...electricity? Heat? An electromagnetic field?
Sure glad no life has been exposed to that for billions of years.

[Anonymous No.1060746]

>>1056730

How does someone not get killed for this?

[Anonymous No.1060758]

>>1060745
>electrosmog is just a meme

[Anonymous No.1060761]

>>1059150
Looks like my ladder, but I don't even bother facing the hooks out anymore. they'll just add a nice jerk on my way to the ground.

[Anonymous No.1060762]

>>1059502
Its a bucket of loose nuts and bolts. I have a few around for mobile ground while welding. This is completely acceptable, and as many other pictures here; not gore.

[Anonymous No.1060763]

>>1060476
Are you calling those spliced wires covered with nut caps are installed properly? Surely a moisture protected method like butt -end connectors with shrink wrap over them would be much safer. Also pull all the wire slack away from the water.

[Anonymous No.1060766]

170+ meter cat5 cable
Silky smooth 10mbps

[Anonymous No.1060768]

>>1060332
They're perfectly safe when grounded properly. The problem is that they're very often installed poorly and often found ungrounded meaning the water coming out of them, as well as the piping (and any conductive faucet knobs etc connected to it) could possibly be live at mains voltage. There's no shortage of reports of people getting a shock from these things in shitty hotels.

[Anonymous No.1060819]

>>1060758
>electrosmog
I extend the credit that you don't honestly believe 'electrosmog' is any more real than homeopathy and tea leaf readings. People can't be this deluded...

http://www.badscience.net/2007/05/electrosmog-the-independent-has-seriously-excelled-itself-this-time-2/

[Anonymous No.1060879]

>>1060766
>170 meters
>Just like that
Holy fuck, shit must be at live voltage at either end. Thank god most net equipment is designed to eat at least one lightning strike. Why didn't they just run fiber? Looks like a straight enough shot, and fiber <-> copper transceivers are fairly cheap if you don't need a gorrillion jiggabits.

[Anonymous No.1060880]

>>1060762
Just proof that welders don't need to actually understand electricity to get their job done...

[Anonymous No.1060902]

>>1060565
Put down the rabbit, Lenny

[Anonymous No.1060970]

>>1056467
Apply Kirchhoff's laws

[Anonymous No.1060988]

>>1060970
It's almost entirely cable or phone circuits, actually.

Cable circuitsand plugging into nice ready made taps, and the phone circuits are actually each dedicated line from their point of origin.

[Anonymous No.1061008]

>>1060988

That explains why the lines are so fat and black.

people in my area who steal current generally use whatever scrap they can get your hands on so you have a whole mess of red,blue,black,brown,green,green and yellow and grey wires that are not doing what they are indicated for.

[Anonymous No.1061024]

>>1060452
Shit water irrigation. If enough is spilled we have to call the epa

[Anonymous No.1061047]

[Anonymous No.1061124]

>>1056478
Just a tip if you are trying to remove the floor tar, use dry ice.

[Anonymous No.1061334]

>>1060332
>Third worlder
>"I take showers"
kek'd

[Anonymous No.1061337]

>>1061334
Ooooh! The edginess!

[Anonymous No.1061340]

>>1060746
>How does someone not get killed for this?

It's discovered years later. By that time no one can say for sure what Mexican day-laborer fucked the job this hard.

More contractors need to be put to death for this stuff, desu. When a retard anon does it it's one thing, but I've seen this kind of shit done thousands of times by "professionals" over the years. Then the "inspectors" never say a thing, because 99.5% of them are just shitwits taking payoff money as their careers.

[Anonymous No.1061343]

>>1061047
Context?

[Anonymous No.1061393]

>>1060084
Sweden is no longer Scandi tier

[Anonymous No.1061395]

>>1060880

Its just a sparkly glue gun

[Anonymous No.1061746]

>>1061395
Shit, is that all? Well now I'm gonna take up welding.

[Anonymous No.1061862]

>>1061343
Beverly Hills Supper Club, I think.

[Anonymous No.1061910]

>>1061047
>>1061862
>>1061343

Yeah thats the Beverly fire, the building was expanded in the early 70's and the owner used cheapest means to do it. Long story short; almost all the wiring was aluminium and the job was botched, so the connections heated and started a fire in the walls.

[Anonymous No.1061916]

>>1061910
>all the wiring was aluminium
Aluminum wire is fine. It's used in industrial applications for decades. Not, hiring a bunch of dumbshits that don't know that you can't wire aluminum the same way you wire copper is not. Mixing copper and aluminum, which is also very common, is also an extremely bad idea. Like those idiots that mix steel and copper pipes without a dielectric union.

[Anonymous No.1061923]

>>1058079
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pERYLWMQnqg

[Anonymous No.1061925]

>>1061337
you mean the voltage amirite

[Anonymous No.1061954]

>>1061910
Thanks for the context anon.

I find it amusing that the investigators put down inconclusive for the cause yet all the evidence pointed to an electrical fire. Especially since the place had a prior fire in the electrical distribution room.

[Anonymous No.1062170]

I think that's genius.

I'd put a lid on the toilet though, so your socks don't get pissy if you drop them.

[Anonymous No.1062254]

>>1060257
What are these, saw one for the first time a few days ago.

[Anonymous No.1062261]

>>1060303
Get one of your friends to share the news clipping from when you break your neck on here.

[Anonymous No.1062264]

>>1062254
Can be lots of stuff. We've got one nearby that's a neighborhood cable splice, I've also seen them used for POTS D-marks.

[Anonymous No.1062407]

>>1061954
>Governor Julian Carroll's report on the fire called the club's wiring an "electrician's nightmare", and alleged multiple, wide-ranging code violations. Bridgetown electrician H. James Amend, who inspected the fire site at the request of a local attorney Stan Chesley a year and a half later said, "I cannot believe that any of this was ever inspected.

"Electrician's nightmare", with such statement I can see the old copper wiring connected to the new aluminium one with normal marrettes.

Also, I wouldn't be surprised if they did the same than OP picture to the breaker box.

[Anonymous No.1062414]

>>1062264
Those shorter, usually square, metal green boxes that sometimes hum, are padmounted power transformers.

Telco/Cable/Fiber pedestals are usually taller, possibly cylindrical in shape and can be grey or green in color.

Sorry for the ant-sized picture, but from left-right; Cable TV, Phone, Electrical

[Anonymous No.1062477]

>>1061910
Got a link? I love reading about disasters and building failures. Shame that The Station was so utterly obliterated, I bet it had some great jury rigged bits.

[Anonymous No.1062485]

>>1062407
>I cannot believe that any of this was ever inspected

Yeah, like how could that even happen?

[Anonymous No.1062487]

>>1062477
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beverly_Hills_Supper_Club_fire
Google it. It's very well documented.

[Anonymous No.1062489]

>>1062477
Here you go:

http://www.enquirer.com/beverlyhills/bevhills.pdf

http://fire.nist.gov/bfrlpubs/fire77/PDF/f77009.pdf

http://www.kentonlibrary.org/genphotos/index.php?q=Fires%20-%20Beverly%20Hills%20Supper%20Club&s=true&p=1

[Anonymous No.1062849]

>>1056633
>210V
>doesn't seem that unusual, a bit below average i guess but no real issue
>realize it's an american outlet
fugggggg

[Anonymous No.1062854]

>>1056799
>>1056706
>>1056863
why is there even current running through that ground wire?
i mean, isn't ground usually just a safety in case the metal casing becomes connected to live by a defect?

[Anonymous No.1062879]

>>1060499
Haha, i've done something remarkably similar, only it was just a dryer above a toilet. And it was supported by three sides.

[Anonymous No.1062912]

>>1062485
bribery, corruption etc.

[Anonymous No.1063066]

>>1062854
Electrical boxes are grounded as well. As another anon pointed out, there's a ground fault somewhere.

[Anonymous No.1063100]

>>1060542
There is nothing wrong with this radiator presuming that the Supply Line is the one at the bottom and also presuming that they used a Venturi Tee on the upper Return pipe.

[Anonymous No.1063104]

>>1056880
>208v panel
>dat wild leg

You are probably correct. A lot of guys aren't familiar with a 208v panel and make that mistake.

[Anonymous No.1063127]

>>1063104
>>1056880
Could also be the neutral line went open circuit on a split single phase, and the slight voltage drop is from whatever appliances happen to be connected in series.

[Anonymous No.1063630]

>>1059150

I fucking hated setting up my ladder on that shit. Thankfully I worked on the lower set of twisted pair copper.

[Anonymous No.1063634]

>>1060386

I have done that. Fuck the customer I thought, I don't get paid enough.

>>1060387

I wish I had a picture of some of the central offices I worked at. Hell some of the server rooms made this look clean.

[Anonymous No.1063640]

>>1056858
Didn't even drill, they've all got holes.

[Anonymous No.1063645]

>>1060307
No water pumps or water heater for you.

How does your shower work?

[Anonymous No.1063651]

>>1060819
I actually read your link.

You owe me the 20IQ points I just lost reading that.

[Anonymous No.1063683]

>>1060307
>well pumps
>pressure tanks
>water heaters
>pool filters
>clothes irons
>you're a retard

[Anonymous No.1063705]

>>1063634
First one I gathered, was because some idiot screwed it into straight drywall, then we hung a VoIP phone on it and pulled the screws out.

Second one is pretty clean compared to some other stuff, deleted a bunch of pics to make room on my phone.

[Anonymous No.1063709]

>>1060307
Most old electric jugs had live contact with the water

[Anonymous No.1063711]

>>1063709
>Cup of tea anyone

[Anonymous No.1063723]

>>1063709
Remember me this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3G4E3WjNufA

[Anonymous No.1063762]

[Anonymous No.1063765]

>>1060733
That pipe is the hot water for the radiators. I had one of those when I lived in Lithuania for a bit. State supplied heating. It was quite nice to sit next to.

[Anonymous No.1063795]

>>1063711
this is kinda what my modern electric kettle looks like and every time I see it I wonder if I'm slowly giving myself cancer or some kind of metal poisoning or something

[Anonymous No.1063797]

>>1060743
>>1060902
>unplug something
>one of the leads doesn't come with it
shit happens, my man, welcome to modern manufacturing

[Anonymous No.1063798]

>>1063723
how do people do this without dying

once when I was a dumbass 12 year old I plugged a cable that went nowhere into the wall and the outlet sparked like it was about to explode, why doesnt that happen to these dudes who plug in literal spoons

[Anonymous No.1063826]

>>1063798
Your cable was probably a dead short, that is the resistance of the cable was so low that an excessive current was allowed to flow.
The spoons are at either end of the food which presumably has a sufficient impedance to allow only a modest current to flow and therefore not damage any infrastructure.

When I was at school a kid in tech put his keys in a socket and tripped the whole building. It's not just you.

[Anonymous No.1063828]

>>1060312
Blenders don't have water inside the electronic compartment.

Well pumps are not all submersible.

[Anonymous No.1063829]

>>1063798
>how do people do this without dying

By not touching it and not letting the spoon and fork touch each other. If they touch they will explode sparks and probably spotweld themselves together before the breaker flips. Which takes all of an instant to happen.

>>1063723
Those will be doing some electrolysis every time you use them like that in water. Someone remind me again what chemicals are leeched into the water when stainless steel is used in electrolysis? If they are silverware and you use this method often then you'll eventually get argyrosis and turn grey-blue forever.

[Anonymous No.1063835]

>>1063100
>>1060542
Even if the top is the supply line this is a way of using an old oversized for the room rad. The upper pipe is larger and the branch is smaller. Least resistance is through the top and some splits lower bypassing the rad, lowering the amount of heated mass circulating through the rad slightly.

[Anonymous No.1063854]

>>1063705
LONDON
O
N
D
O
N

[Anonymous No.1063860]

>anons getting uppity with just some badly installed electric showers

Get at my level, pic related.

[Anonymous No.1063861]

>>1063860
Is that barbed wire?

[Anonymous No.1063866]

>>1063860
Many hues were huered

[Anonymous No.1063869]

>>1063861
No, just iron wires

[Anonymous No.1064018]

>>1056676
It is conceivable that they were designed that way because people were doing shit like this.

[Anonymous No.1064025]

>>1063860
I don't know how anyone could stand to live in such conditions, even if I were renting I would offer pay to renovate it myself

[Anonymous No.1064029]

>>1063854
Holy shit.

I swear, phone lines are always a fucking rat's nest. Probably because they're so stupid thin and stiff.

[Anonymous No.1064042]

>>1063860
Third World Status : Maximum

With conditions that bad I'm surprised that you have running piped water

[Anonymous No.1064089]

>>1063645
A hanging 5 gallon bucket with a ball valve on the side

[Anonymous No.1064091]

>>1063860
What in the holy hell

[Anonymous No.1064095]

>>1063795
I've got one, and someone at work has the same one as I do, which he's had much longer, and both show no signs of corrosion or wear. If there's any metal dissolving into the water, it has to be incredibly minute.

I'd say it's probably platinum on them, but given the price I paid for it, it's doubtful.

[Anonymous No.1064097]

>>1060499

As a plumber, it really impresses me that people think of this stuff.

My brain just doesn't work in a way that I could have said "mount the washer over the commode"

[Anonymous No.1064113]

>>1060499
>washer of damocles
let's see who's the dimwit that'll sit at the throne now

[Anonymous No.1064121]

>>1060257
Purple pipe is used for reclaimed water.
Notice no wires or cables in the pipe.

[Anonymous No.1064136]

WTF with that obsession of showers & electricity?

[Anonymous No.1064138]

>>1056717
jätte jätte mycket

[Anonymous No.1064146]

>>1064029
It is because those morons don't use ribbons. Instead everything is a single wire.

>>1064025
When ever I rented an apartment I always renovated it as needed and never told the owner. That was everything from fixing 101 rat holes to rewiring electrical death traps. If you have kids, you simply do not fuck around with waiting for someone else to make your home a safe & secure place.

[Anonymous No.1064151]

>rich white business owner
>tfw this is the best i can afford

[Anonymous No.1064153]

>>1064151

Another room

[Anonymous No.1064156]

>>1063829
Various chromates, the ones that cause cancer mostly and generally poison the shit out of anything organic
Yeah, don't use SS in any kind of electrolysis

[Anonymous No.1064160]

[Anonymous No.1064187]

>>1063854
Literally hell on earth

[Anonymous No.1064201]

>>1061047
Looks like some shitty hipster lo-fi album cover

[Anonymous No.1064576]

This is my breaker box, somehow water gets inside it.

Does this counts as something?

[Anonymous No.1064585]

>>1064576
>This is my breaker box, somehow water gets inside it.
Is it indoors or outside?
If indoors, yes, BIG problem
If outside, problem but fixable

[Anonymous No.1064588]

>>1064585
Inside, literally in my living room.

There was a gap between houses where water accumulated there which fucked up my paint and the plaster.
And some of that water leaked inside it.

I fixed that, water doesn't get inside it anymore.

[Anonymous No.1064899]

>>1063860
It's not grounded. Dangling green wire and PVC piping... nope

[Anonymous No.1064909]

>>1064588
Are you the anon that had the had the drooping paint boob about a month ago?

[Anonymous No.1064953]

>>1064909
No, care to link it? Or what was the thread about to search it in the archive.

[Anonymous No.1064963]

>>1064953
>Or what was the thread about to search it in the archive
OP had a leaking roof, /diy/ gave OP shit about having shitty, worn shingles, water ingress caused a paint boob.

[Anonymous No.1064997]

>>1056730
>We are just going to replaster your hung ceiling
>Jose where is that oxyace?

[Anonymous No.1065107]

[Anonymous No.1065113]

>>1056750
it's a cheap piece of shit

[Anonymous No.1065145]

>>1056574
>>1060279
Don't be silly, that's a standard electrical glow nut. They are supposed to light up to indicate when a circuit may be overloaded. Around here we use them for connections prone to loads higher than they were designed for.

[Anonymous No.1065149]

[Anonymous No.1065152]

>>1065149
Isn't that outlet off?

[Anonymous No.1065154]

>>1065152
>Isn't that outlet off?
I dunno.
Touch it and find out!

[Anonymous No.1065284]

>>1065149
That's dedication

[Ꭺnonymous No.1065300]

>>1056536
that's shitty water distribution though

[Anonymous No.1065308]

>>1064151
>>1064153

Looks a lot better than many I've seen.

Do you have to wash your hands and dishes with cold water?

[Ꭺnonymous No.1065317]

>>1057553
this is why we use baking powder, people

[Anonymous No.1065320]

Jesus fucking christ
Ive never seen gore threads like this.
I chuckled at the guy with no hands or face getting tortured.
But this, this is just...
I need a minute.

[Ꭺnonymous No.1065363]

>>1060386
you wot

[Ꭺnonymous No.1065369]

>>1064136
this looks shopped
please tell me this is shopped
please

[Anonymous No.1065688]

>>1063854
What a lovely shrubbery

[Anonymous No.1065698]

>>1065149

[Anonymous No.1065705]

>>1065308

Yes. But the air temp is a constant 27-32 celsius. So it is not actually uncomfortably cold.

Before my american wife i just showered with the water pouring out the end of a pipe in a different house.

Then we got this one with wall mounted heaters which burnt out elements or started a fire, the cheapest solution was these so thats why the water and electric supply is so low down and i had to driect everything up to a reasonable height.

[Anonymous No.1065867]

>>1064153
Well you see, the atmosphere of this room reminds me a bit of the shower gas chambers we had in Germany. Maybe our expertise with showers and the americans expertise with electric charis could be put to good use when the next dictator rolls around needing mass killings. Behold the ELECTRIC SHOWER OF DEATH, proundly devised on 4chan.

[Anonymous No.1065930]

>>1064201
Lmao.

[Anonymous No.1065952]

>>1063709
So the element is insulated?

The only difference between this and your home water heater is that you dont try to stir your water heater.

[Anonymous No.1065953]

>>1065867
need some decorative tesla coil as lighting

[Anonymous No.1066162]

>>1065149

[Anonymous No.1066242]

>>1056574
wait, total noob, so spell it out for me but is that a plastic nut or is it red hot?

That's a ground plate, right? So after a short to ground, shit should turn off?

[Anonymous No.1066249]

>>1066242
Red hot.
Not necessarily a ground bus, could be a neutral bar.
Either way, It's probably not a dead short.
It's probably a really heavy load.

[Anonymous No.1066751]

>>1065149
It's on, that's what the orange dot means. It's a pretty good plug, we don't get grounds snapping off and the 250VAC is objectively better

[Anonymous No.1066753]

This one is OC, tell me if it's bad.

[Anonymous No.1066755]

>>1066753
Fuck, better quality

[Anonymous No.1066773]

>>1066753
>>1066755
Just shift gears on the rear cassette and you'll be fine till you can get around to fixing it. Really not that bad.

[Anonymous No.1066785]

>>1065152
Aus/NZ switches work in the opposite way to American ones. Red dot means on.

This is the correct and sensible way, you Americans are idiots.

[Anonymous No.1066790]

>>1066753
>>1066755
I literally can't see whats going on here other than that your bike needs hosing down because its filthy as fuck

[Anonymous No.1066813]

>>1066790
Using an automotive bullet connector to crimp the gear cable, I guess it was worse when it wasn't crimped at all and freyed. It works flawlessly and I can change gears with it with no problem

[Anonymous No.1066820]

>>1066813
There's nothing wrong with that.
My front shifter cable is properly crimped, but the rear shifter and both brakes are not.
Instead, I just left them really long.
Still waiting for them to fray, but they haven't started to in the last year.

[Anonymous No.1066877]

>>1066751

>It's a pretty good plug

That doesn't look like a type G to me.

You are right about 250v though. Tesla said it was the best and they shut him down so I believe it.

[Anonymous No.1066880]

>>1063854

During my school work placement program they set me loose with the local telecoms company and I swear every box looked like that.

That was 13 years ago and recently I have seen a guy working to clean up one of the boxes I used to work on. The man had a van blocking the road (it was literally roadside) for 8 days, but when he was nearly done I stopped and checked it out to take a look.

I literally slapped him on the back exclaiming loudly how he was a "bad man"

Thing was clean

[Anonymous No.1066891]

>>1063797
>welcome to american manufacturing

[Anonymous No.1066944]

>>1056478
Mark?

[Anonymous No.1066953]

>>1063860

[Anonymous No.1066955]

>>1066249
HAHAHAH. been here. Used a dremel to notch out my case and duct taped a plastic bowl over it to keep dirt out. Used it for 3 years like that. 0 regrets aside from people laughing. Whatever faggots. Better grapfix and dual monitor. Eatadick

[Anonymous No.1066963]

>>1066753
>>1066755
theres nothing wrong with this. i've used propane torch and acid solder; sometimes even super glue to prevent fraying

[Anonymous No.1067024]

>>1066249

Correct me if I am wrong. But the cable before hand looks pretty fucking fat and the connector looks puny in comparison

[Anonymous No.1067037]

>>1067024
Are you talking about the white one? It looks like a wifi adapter to me.

[Anonymous No.1067045]

>>1067024
>>1067037
The unused port is a 15 pin VGA cable, the lower one should also be video.
DVI maybe? Another VGA?

[Anonymous No.1067048]

>>1067045
Considering it's going through a big fuggin' adapter to a VGA cable, my bet would be on DVI.

[Anonymous No.1067050]

>>1056824
This happens more often than you'd think when linemen have to add an emergency feed into something without adding posts.
>"if it doesn't trip then I guess it's ok"
until the troubleman leaves and some other poor sod has to decipher what the fuck it used to look like and tie everything back.