Lots of things have been covered before. And new people keep coming in. So items will get talked about again. And then again. I mean, can you really ask someone to go search 100s of pages and thousands of posts?

If you know a link that sheds light, do not berate someone for asking the same old question that has been asked before. Say, "Here you are" and provide a link.

My pins are grounded but my house is not.

My house was built in 1957 and two-wire romex is all that is in my walls. I used to have a drawer full of those little gray adapters that that let you plug a 3-prong tool to a 2-prong outlet. That got tiresome, so one day I replaced all of my 2-prong outlets with 3-prong outlets.

Rewiring the house with grounded Romex costs too much but I'll probably have to reinstall the 2-prong outlets when I go to sell.

Yes, you are correct. It was a play on words. All of my pins are ground ready, or would be properly grounded if the outlet was grounded.

Thanks Vid. It is an old house. The prices I got several years ago to do complete rewire were cost prohibitive. I was not aware that GFCI outlets would have any effect in a house with a 2-wire system. With this knowledge, I am going to install the GFCIs. Thanks again.

That toaster reminds me of the hot dog cookers we used to make in 8th grade basic electricity class: Make and install two brass prongs to a piece of plexiglass, attach a power cord to the prongs, skewer the dog onto the prongs and plug in. Sizzle sizzle.

This pic a commercial version. It at least has a safety cover. We flew without a net. The ones we made were of the suicide type. Skewer, plug in, and hopefully unplug before you go to pull the hot dog off of the stakes.

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Good lord, can you imagine the liability for the school system if something like this was made by Johnny today?

http://ultimateclassicrock.com/yardbirds-keith-relf-death/

"If there’s any consolation in the tragic death of Keith Relf, it is that rhe former Yardbirds frontman died doing what he loved: making music. The 33-year-old was playing an ungrounded guitar in his basement when he was electrocuted on May 14, 1976."

Jeez. You could have been a script writer for aVincent Price movie