/diy/ - Do It Yourself

I guess I should post this on /adv/ my bad

Most pliers have insulated handles,

>>1520286
Find the fuse box and shut off the power to your house then remove it.

>>1520297
Its an apartment
>>1520293
They are rubber and metal so I assumed it wouldn't work, thanms

>>1520297
I tapped ot and quickly pulled back a few times to see if i got shocked, I figured i wasnt faster than electricity so if i didnt feel anything I would be good and it worked! Thanks

>>1520298
My apartment has it's own fuse box, what kind of slum are you living in anon? If it isn't in your apartment then call the landlord.

>>1520303
It's just that the basement is also rented out and I dont want to see those people for some dumb shit, but i got it

>>1520298
>Its an apartment
then call the freaking land lord

Any sane man would pull the fuse. Otherwise you can jump and pull it out while you dont touch the ground

>>1520286
Lucky for you that's stuck in on the neutral side. Just yank it. There's no chance of being shocked.

>>1520336
>Any sane man would pull the fuse.

yes, but men from the current century would just trip the breaker.

>>1520336
>jump
lol

>>1520349
>>1520336
They taught me that at the subway depot, jump on the electrified rail and it won't shock you. I never tried it though.

That is on the cold side you could lick it and be fine. Grab with pliers. If nervous put on rubber gloves,even dry dishwashing would work. But it is on the cold side so there is NO RISK.

>>1520351
Never trust the looks of electric work. Especially with an apartment, you never know who wired that up.

>>1520351
>telling op do grab it with his own hands
dont be dumb, this situation is exactly what little brothers are for

>>1520351
>>1520343
> Dunning Kruger graph.jpg

Electrical tape is 1000v/per wrap you pansy faggot.

>>1520357
Except that shit really is on the cold side. You dumb faggot.

>>1520286
just dont be grounded and pull it out. or get insulated pliers if youre a huge pussy

>>1520286
how the fuck does this even happen!?

>>1520336
That's for whene your car gets hit by lighting anon. I can't understand AC but in general, if you touch a ground wire, you are grounded. It don't matter if you're flying. Yooz funny.

>>1520388
While you are right that the prong is stuck in the neutral part of the outlet, you need to consider >>1520352 , however,
>>1520286
Electricity needs a path from a live source to ground in order to flow, and since 120v isn't going to easily conduct through most shoes, you can easily remove the prong by hand without hurting yourself, assuming that the prong isn't welded to the interior of the outlet. You can just put on a pair of shoes, keep your left hand away from anything conductive, and then use your right hand to remove the prong.

>>1520286
I got this. Just take a potato, cut it in half, jam it on the broken part and twist... Oh. Wait...

>>1520298
Holy fuck you are such an idiot

Wonder how many people have died because of this site.

You can touch it, you won't be electrocuted because it's only 1 side of the plug. Just grab it with a pair of pliers and pull it out.

1. Switch off the breaker / remove fuse. If you don't have access to the panel, call your landlord since you're in an apartment.
2. Remove prong with pliers
3. If it's jammed too far in, just replace the outlet. They're inexpensive. Remember how the old outlet was wired and duplicate that config for the new one

>>1520302
It's in the wide slot, so there's no current. Only the "hot" can have current (unless your outlets were wired incorrectly).

>>1520286
Well if your house is wired correctly no electric should be flowing through the left neutral prong

>>1520302
Is this OP solving this like a mile ago?

Carry on!

>>1520530
Op is just larping that he survived.

>>1520343
No chance? Good luck with trusting t. random electrician.

>>1520286
There's no complete circuit. Pulling on that is no more dangerous than sticking your finger in a light socket with the switch off.

You make Latvians look smart.

>>1520530
You know that's not how this works. We're going to keep calling each other faggot amateurs untill some tells us about the PHD they have in shitty apartment electrical code, and out of the ashes somebody gets an idea for another thread for a either way too simple or way too overthought project

>>1520286
use hammer to knock it in. Those slots go all the way through, and it will just pop out the back ( into the space in the walls )

>>1520303

ITT: OP would rather get electrocuted than having to meet people

>>1520494
I clearly don't understand how AC works. goddamn it. I thought both hot and "neutral" carried current, and when connected they just flipped the electricity back and forth. I understand now that I write it, that is stupid. gonna go learn some stuff.

>>1520926
>gonna go learn some stuff.

nah, just remember that the hot sucks electrons for one half cycle, then blows electrons for the other half cycle, and neutral just goes along with that deviant behavior.

>>1520343
Nice try buckaroo

>>1520400
It was already loose, but I kept usong it cause I thought it would be fine

>>1520530
Ayup

>>1520921
Do that with your brain and it will come out your ears. Won't hurt a thing and just drip to the floor. That is what ears are for.

>>1520955
Hey! AC/DC. Damn!

>>1520286
Do not buy cheap Chinese junk next time and buy some tools.

>>1520955
gotcha!

( why do I have to click 14 successful captchas to post.. anyone else deal with this bullshit on 4chan? )

>>1520298
There should be a breaker box in one of your rooms or something. If not, just call the landlord and pull with pliers.

>>1520286
Nigga electricity needs a loop to work, if you stick a fork into just one of the holes nothing will happen, so you can just pull that pin out without giving a fuck

>>1523099
if it's a phase wire and you grab it?... sure... nothing will happen. please do that ASAP

>>1520286
>Obviously I'm not retarded and didn't try and pull it
You're obviously retarded for thinking this.
Pull it out, bitch.
Nothing is going to happen
>This has probably already been mention

>>1520286
You're retarded OP. You would have to touch both prongs in order to be shocked.

>>1525462
Your a retard. You have to touch all 3 to get shocked. Why do you think the third one exists??? For fun?

>>1520302
>faster than electricity

For future reference, black electrical tape around the handles of a pair a pliars.

>>1525569
Electrons move through wires at slower than a snail's pace. It's just that the electric fields that drive the motion propagate at nearly the speed of light, and that's what causes the electrons on the ends of the conductors to jump into new and exciting places.

>>1520924
I feel I'm too late for this but.. welcome to chan?

>>1520747
retard

>>1528009
he wasnt wrong

>>1528009
Stay mad, Latvian.

if i plug pliers into the ground socket can i work live?

>>1520286
Unless it's wired incorrectly, that's the neutral side, just grab it and pull it out. Its literally the same voltage plane as ground. Use pliers, jic.

Jump up in the air when you pull it out. The electrons cant shock you if you're not touching the ground

>>1520303
You talk shit about other people living in slums but you have a depression era fuse box. Does your house have a toilet or do you use an outhouse and wipe with corn cobs faggot?

>>1520310
fuckin molemen i swear

>>1520293
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>>1532301
>Nothing but faggotry below this line,

is it too late to vote

>>1520439
>You can touch it, you won't be electrocuted because it's only 1 side of the plug. Just grab it with a pair of pliers and pull it out.
This is the only correct answer in the thread.

>>1520286
Just stand in a puddle of water when you pull it out, that way if it is under power the electricity won't be stored in your body and cause damage

>>1520494
>It's in the wide slot, so there's no current.
There's no voltage, you mean.
In a normal circuit, there is definitely current through the neutral path, and it is equal to the current through the hot path. (If you don't believe this, put a clamp meter on the neutral wire and plug in a heater)

yes, you can just pull it out and probably be fine.
But the safe no-brainer thing to do is go turn off the breaker, then pull it out, then turn the breaker back on.
If you don't know which breaker it is, then plug in something that makes nose, then flip the breakers one by one until you hear it turn off. then LABEL the fucking breaker so you don't have to do that again.

>>1532400
>I'm retarded
It's a receptacle with nothing plugged in, so there's no current in the neutral wire.

Assuming you haven't flopped the picture, It's in the neutral blade, which is taller and the one that's supposed to be less dangerous. If nothing else is broken, that is. Even under ideal circumstances there may be current moving in the neutral inside the socket, to serve other loads. that also means the neutral isn't quite 0 volts in ideal circumstances. I have gotten impressive arc flash touching neutral to ground on a routine upgrade because something else was messed up that I didn't know about.

>>1520286
its only 120v you pussy pull it out

>>1520955
Wow

OP solved the problem in 20 minutes and said so 5 posts later
>>1520302

3 weeks late rit's still getting bumped to page 1 and there's 70 more replies about a simple problem.
Read the thread before posting you fucking retards

>>1536716
Thanks for contributing to the problem

Why not flip the breaker? It's been a few weeks and nobody has stated the obvious.

>>1527928
*channel