Install/Repair an AC Outlet - PEP BB electricity.sand.AC outlet

I installed this outlet on the mezzanine of Paul’s classroom.

Here at the ATC, I installed an outlet!

We also wired up a three way switch on the table just for laughs. I learned a lot!

I installed an outlet yesterday!  Or more accurately, installed about ten of them.  It was my first time doing a conduit installation.  Here are the pics:

This was the first step to getting power to the storage shed.  I ran wire to the electrical box and used a box that would hold the light switch and create a plug. Lessons learned do not cut the wire to short, wire strippers that match the wire size are very handy, hammering staples to hold the wire is hard.

I submit replacing an outlet.  
for more pictures about the loom room renos, here's a link.

I ended up doing five of these and one complicated one with a two-fuse thingy (break the little tab on the black side), but for this badge, I'm submitting the regular outlets.  The photos are from two of the ones I did yesterday (thus the different backgrounds).

supplies including two different testers



ugly old socket





wires



putting wires on new one



back on wall (levelled and screws not touching inside of box)



tested and works correctly!



plate

Here is my BB attempt:

Old outlet


New Outlet


Ready for Install


Midway Photo:


Installed


Covered and Tested:

How else can this be certified without the tester part? I could show some reading on my volt meter? I do not own a tester nor do i want to buy one....

Great question...  I didn't have one either but the one I got was pretty cheap and I like the simplicity of plugging it in and having it check all the things that could be wrong for me.  If I had to figure it out with a multimeter I'm not sure I'd do it correctly and it would be hard to prove for the BB...

Here is my submission for the Electricity - Sand - Repair/Replace Outlet BB.

To document the completion of the BB, I have provided the following:
  - a picture of the current location that needs a new outlet, or a socket failing a socket test
  - a picture of the installation/repair midway through
  - a picture of the finished installation with the socket tester showing a proper installation

The guts of the outlet have been getting looser (I have to bend the tines of the plug) for over a year now.  If I bend the tines for this outlet then they get unbent when I use other outlets around the house.  This is particularly true for the vacuum and I don't want to have to replace it or its plug so I replaced the outlet - cost under $1.  I also replaced the switch as 50-year-old "almond" is not the same now and we had switched the kitchen cover plates to silver.  I did not use this switch replacement for a BB.  

The original electrical install (50 years ago) did not include several inches of wire stuffed in the box so I was working in tight quarters and the first time I wired it, one of the wires broke off while fitting everything back in the box (without me noticing) so I did end up with a failed circuit test.