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   Alex Gleason (alex@gleasonator.com)'s status on Friday, 08-Dec-2023 04:32:52 JST Alex Gleason
   As I'm replacing outlets in my house, I notice they're completely soaked with paint. It's like they took all the covers off and just hosed the inside of every outlet with paint. I'm scraping paint off the wires. It's no wonder one of the outlets started smoking and nearly caught on fire. Also, the GFCI outlet in the bathroom was installed halfway reversed, so that in no orientation could it possibly ever make sense, and it took a lot of bravery to decide that I knew better than whoever installed it when I fixed it.
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     feld (feld@bikeshed.party)'s status on Friday, 08-Dec-2023 04:34:47 JST feld

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     @alex lucky it didn't catch on fire. I can't believe someone would be that stupid to not cover the outlets before painting
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     Curtis Rock, SkD (curtis@social.teci.world)'s status on Friday, 08-Dec-2023 04:59:04 JST Curtis Rock, SkD

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     @alex One cause of fires is loosely connected fixture wires. For example, if you turn on a light switch and a light intermittently doesn’t turn on, it is likely a loose wire. With an active circuit under a load, a loose wire can create an arc.

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     fu (fu@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 08-Dec-2023 07:24:10 JST fu

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     @alex how old is your house? The one I grew up in was like this, circa 1921