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View Poll Results: Vote for your Favorite All-Time Code Violation!
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1. Flip-Flop Floating Extension
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27 |
21.60% |
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2. Crimped Cord Cap
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1 |
0.80% |
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3. NM Connector on Service
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1 |
0.80% |
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4. The ORIGINAL Can Light
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3 |
2.40% |
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5. Plumbing Ells at MDP
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9 |
7.20% |
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6. Bell Wire/RG6 on Recep
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8 |
6.40% |
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7. Dryer Receptacle Missing
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4 |
3.20% |
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8. Plastic Anchor Wire Nut
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4 |
3.20% |
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9. Extension Box Sandwich
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19 |
15.20% |
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10. Soap Bottle Cord
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11 |
8.80% |
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11. Gas Line Raceway
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5 |
4.00% |
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12. Cat Food Can Cover
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2 |
1.60% |
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13. Cigar Fuse Box
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3 |
2.40% |
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14. Stuffed 4S Box
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8 |
6.40% |
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15. EMT Fuses
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20 |
16.00% |
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05-07-2009, 05:50 PM
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#41
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Member
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Newburgh, NY
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Yea, that flip-flop extention isnt safe. your just asking for a death wish
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05-24-2009, 03:25 PM
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#42
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Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Phoenix, AZ
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OK, the flip flop one is more than likely not even plugged in so I'm not giving it any credit.
I am proud that I have been able to personally provide a few entries to the poll. I wish I had a camera with me to document some of the classics throughout the decades.
I SWEAR I have seen that overstuffed 5 square box but mine had mostly THW in it and older nuts...and more wires.
I also think that, even though I only had a cell phone pic, my EMT fuses were better than the ones in the poll.
There are so many to choose from. I have it narrowed down to the stacked extensions, the gas pipe and the conductor screw tap.
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05-24-2009, 03:28 PM
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#43
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Hack and Rat all in one
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Stars and Stripes
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Quote:
Originally Posted by 220/221
I am proud that I have been able to personally provide a few entries to the poll.
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Your own work, right?  
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05-24-2009, 03:30 PM
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#44
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Rat Extraordinaire
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Iowa
Posts: 6,792
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Quote:
Originally Posted by 220/221
............I also think that, even though I only had a cell phone pic, my EMT fuses were better than the ones in the poll........
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But your EMT fuses aren't all there.......... you're missing one, so the load is single-phasing! 
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05-24-2009, 03:47 PM
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#45
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Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: missouri
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had to go with #15 ive seen that more times than i can count. whats the amperage rating of emt?
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05-24-2009, 04:22 PM
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#46
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Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Leesburg VA
Posts: 5,148
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The guys that put in your quasi fuses was a slacker and a hack, he couldn't even beat the ends flat.
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05-24-2009, 06:38 PM
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#47
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Location: Phoenix, AZ
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But your EMT fuses aren't all there.......... you're missing one, so the load is single-phasing!
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I go to a sh!tty little used car lot to troubleshoot the 240V lot lights. I am testing power in a single phase panel and find one of the legs is a high leg @ about 200V.
I track it to the source, on a different property about 500' away, and find the source to be a 3 phase switch. At some time, they destroyed one of the 120V leg lugs/fuse clips so they just moved the wire down to the high leg. Hey, it's still 240....right?
I tracked down a used switch but the owner of the building thought I was trying to rip him off (I heard him on speaker phone with the tennant). The switch is probably still like that. The car lot was gone in 6 months.
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08-11-2009, 08:36 PM
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#48
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Junior Member
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: broomfield, co
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these are all funny man, but #9 almost made me pee my pants. i can just picture the guy that worked on that last trying to fit all that **** back together.
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08-11-2009, 09:00 PM
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#49
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Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Atlanta, Ga/Hamilton, Al
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Originally Posted by hogsmoss
these are all funny man, but #9 almost made me pee my pants. i can just picture the guy that worked on that last trying to fit all that **** back together. |
I don't see why there are so many extension rings to begin with. How many wires could possibly be in there? There is a 3/4" pipe in and out at the top. And two 1/2" pipes at the bottom. That's probably a staged pic.
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08-15-2009, 11:51 PM
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#50
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#6 copper fan
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Rahway, NJ
Posts: 1,575
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Gotta go with #10: Soap Bottle Cord.
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08-16-2009, 01:34 PM
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#51
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Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Hollis Center Maine
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I had to go with #1, anytime you are staring at multiple instant deaths you gotta go with that one. My only doubt is it may be staged as stated in an earlier post. If proven to be staged I would change my vote to #15.
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08-17-2009, 04:32 PM
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#52
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Join Date: May 2009
Location: Tennessee
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I vote for # 14 cause thats how we do it in Tennessee!!! GO BIG ORANGE (or big orange fire ball)
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09-12-2009, 09:13 PM
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#53
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Member
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: central florida
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the missing dryer rec. is bad and very dangerous
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09-13-2009, 10:43 AM
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#54
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Member
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Alabama
Posts: 71
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Quote:
Originally Posted by mattsilkwood
whats the amperage rating of emt?
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Depends on the size but I can't seem to find it in NEC.
I went with the extension box sandwich, I think that guy forgot his emt bender.
The flip-flop floating extension is ok if its plugged into a gfci.... 
Last edited by lectric_hand6855; 09-13-2009 at 10:56 AM.
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09-16-2009, 06:25 PM
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#55
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Member
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Ontario, Canada
Posts: 57
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EMT Fuses for sure. What an idiot home owner does is what an idiot home owner does best. Act like an idiot.
A person working in the trade knew better but did the evil deed. Thus he's someone who will do that again and again. So... it's the worst violation possible on the list.
Someone should dust those emt for prints. It's criminal.
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09-25-2009, 12:48 PM
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#56
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idiot's idot
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: south jersey
Posts: 62
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I'm gonna go with #5 because it appears to be going into a gear, that tells me it was likely done by an electrician, who should know better. makes me wonder tho ... how much of this stuff never gets caught.
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09-29-2009, 10:16 PM
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#57
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Junior Member
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Connecticut
Posts: 1
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#7 is pretty messed up. It's run with 10-2 using the ground as neutral and the white conductor is not re-identified.
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