DIY disastersI just can't do power tools. They always fly out of control and end up embedded somewhere they shouldn't. I've no idea how I've still got all the appendages I was born with.
Add to that the fact that nothing ends up square, able to support weight or free of sticking-out sharp bits and you can see why I try to avoid DIY.
Tell us of your own DIY disasters.
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chthonic, Thu 3 Apr 2008, 17:19)
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If the pin on the cable clipwas only touching the live wire, it would itself be live (hence your multiple shocks) but it would only cause an electrical problem if it touched another wire (the neutral or earth) simultaneously and caused a short circuit. Shorting to earth should trip the RCD, if your house is so equipped, but shorting to neutral would either trip the circuit breaker (or blow a fuse in an older system), or if the contact was insufficiently good, cause the cable clip to heat up.
This is of course the most dangerous possibility as it can cause fire.
Having read your last post, maybe you should leave this sort of thing to the professionals before you die horribly in a home improvement incident!
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K2k6 has a proper job these days, Tue 8 Apr 2008, 8:47,
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