I'll jump in here and say that back in the 80's right after my wife and I married I decided to be the good son in law and install ceiling fans in my mother in law's house and in her mother's house. These two houses were built in the 50's and both had been "remodeled" here and there. What I discovered was that roughly half of the existing fixtures in the ceilings were backwards, with the power live no matter what the switch on the wall said. Since changing bulbs in these old houses with ten foot ceilings usually involved a ladder on a wood floor it never showed up as being wrong. I have always carried a "volt tic" or whatever you want to call it. I don't rely on it for my primary protection but that's the way I discovered the problem to start with.
So, while at it I checked all of the circuits in the houses and most of the fixing was done with simply switching wires either at the fuse box or the outlets themselves. Some of them had to have new wire because of splices that weren't accessible in walls, etc. My weekend job turned into a month long mess because of "experts" fixing things and hooking up stuff until it worked and calling it good.
Bottom line: Never trust that something is as it appears, ALWAYS use a meter and double check everything before, not after working on it.
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Today's Featured Article - A Lifetime of Farm Machinery - by Joe Michaels. I am a mechanical engineer by profession, specializing in powerplant work. I worked as a machinist and engine erector, with time spent overseas. I have always had a love for machinery, and an appreciation for farming and farm machinery. I was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. Not a place one would associate with farms or farm machinery. I credit my parents for instilling a lot of good values, a respect for learning, a knowledge of various skills and a little knowledge of farming in me, amo
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