/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>1272486
With shop tools, you generally have a power cord made out of SJOOW wire that has a plug on the end and you plug it into an electrical outlet. That outlet is properly wired in a junction box with a face plate and all that shit.

This guy was not using SJOOW wire. He was using 14/2 wire. Picture related. It is flat, solid core wire and is generally only used inside your wall. It is very stiff compared to SJOOW wire. He had that run to the junction box, which had no outlet or anything. Just more 14/2 wire sticking out into the room a few inches. The connections were all twisted together and held with electrical tape. No wire nuts, no solder, no block terminals. This was then run through the wall with many splices and braches, all done with just tape until it got to the breaker box. There were only two 15-amp breakers in the box running the entire shed, which probably had a dozen power tools in it. They were all on the first breaker. The lights were on the second.

Did it work? No. There was a short somewhere so the breaker for the tools would trip as soon as you turned it on. Based on the condition of the tools, rusted to shit, the place hadn't been used in 30 years.