Look at the project from the DIY network

[ultramegabob]

take a close look at what they showing people to make post lights with...


http://www.diynetwork.com/diy/cr_garden_patio/article/0,2025,DIY_13757_5140216,00.html

http://www.diynetwork.com/diy/cr_garden_patio/article/0,2025,DIY_13757_5140215,00.html

 

[ultramegabob]

Im kinda surpized nobody had any comments on this home made yard light using an interior light fixture mounted upside down without a junction box with conductors chased through a rough concrete post with no sleeve... when I saw this on television this morning they showed it being in the middle of a flowerbed outside.

 

[chris kennedy]

Im kinda surpized nobody had any comments on this home made yard light using an interior light fixture mounted upside down without a junction box with conductors chased through a rough concrete post with no sleeve... when I saw this on television this morning they showed it being in the middle of a flowerbed outside.

All 77 who have viewed your thread are busy mixing concrete.

 

[roger]

Im kinda surpized nobody had any comments on this home made yard light using an interior light fixture mounted upside down without a junction box with conductors chased through a rough concrete post with no sleeve... when I saw this on television this morning they showed it being in the middle of a flowerbed outside.

Well, we don't do DIYer here.

Roger

 

[480sparky]

Only time I'm interested in seeing DIY stuff is when I'm getting paid to fix it.

 

[brian john]

hese pictures were emailed to me, I do not know who to credit. But worth a view.

 

[480sparky]

hese pictures were emailed to me, I do not know who to credit. But worth a view.

I think they, like the images of the cord floating in the pool with flip-flops, have been posted so many times all over the 'net they'd be considered public domain images.

I recollect I posted them about a year ago.

 

[roger]

Roger

 

[76nemo]

So much for sleeping well tonight after those nightmare pics

 

[tonyou812]

Roger

how did you get into my house???

 

[K2500]

Roger

A call to the unwashed masses is in order I suppose?

 

[480sparky]

Roger

Proof positive that water and electricity do mix!

Are the listed NEMA 3R covers at least made out of treated plywood and fastened with corrosion-resistant fasteners?

 

[LawnGuyLandSparky]

All 77 who have viewed your thread are busy mixing concrete.

That's not true, and I resent the insinuation. I happen to still be in the "rounding up all the melamine" phase...

 

[jim dungar]

That's not true, and I resent the insinuation. I happen to still be in the "rounding up all the melamine" phase...

And I am still trying to push my conduit through the 1/2" hole.

 

[Jraef]

I especially like this statement from that DIY site:

"...You can use a lighter to heat a shrink tube over the twisted wires, or simply wrap securely with electrical tape."

 

[brian john]

Roger:

Did you take that? Tell me you used Photoshop...

That had me in tears...NO way that is real!

 

[roger]

Roger:

Did you take that? Tell me you used Photoshop...

That had me in tears...NO way that is real!

Brian, it is real, it was sent to me from a local inspector. It was found in the home of an elderly lady.

Roger

 

[480sparky]

Brian, it is real, it was sent to me from a local inspector. It was found in the home of an elderly lady.

Roger

She obviously never used that shower or else she wouldn't be elderly.

 

[roger]

She obviously never used that shower or else she wouldn't be elderly.

She did use it but, she had a rubber mat in it. :grin:

Roger

 

[hockeyoligist2]

Dugg because Michele Beschen is soooo hot! OOps wrong forum!