[SML] OT: Non-Standard Wiring Revisited

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>     On 09 October 2015 at 00:03 Alf Sauve' via Stagecraft
> <stagecraft at theatrical.net> wrote:
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>     Why can't you protect the light with the GFCI? Maybe they've had people
>     remove the bulb and try to stick their finger in the socket?
> 
>     It certainly would cut down on the calls to maintenance if they ran the
>     light direct. Wonder if it was a screw up by just one electrician, so
>     only certain rooms are this way, or if the whole building is that way?
> 

It was the custom, back when, to run all sorts of things from lighting outlets.
I remember my aunt doing her ironing from a light socket.

It always strikes me as hazardous, since there was no earth connection, poor
cable clamps (if any), and a limited current supply. But she survived it. Back
in the 1940s and '50s, we were less beset by rules, or maybe just more ignorant.
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