How To Replace an Electrical Outlet

[LordGalenOfSnipeMe]

The vid forgot to mention what a pain in the ass it is to manipulate those wires, lol. Probably should give people who've never done it before some warning on that!

[cruz47144]

In what country is the neutral blue (copleygsxr)? There are also WYE voltages copleygsxr

[bronc88]

i think the green ground should go around to the right side of the ground screw. that is to insure that it is not going to loosen as the screw it tightened it pulls in in. to the left it pushs it out .

[RelentlessRevolver7]

THANK U FUCKIN MUCH!

[5hodges]

is this replcement the same for a coleman 6250 generator

[copleygsxr]

No shit????? you want to get technicale, Ungrounded conductor Hot, Grounded conductor Neuteral Grounding conductor Green. Any color can be a ungrounded conductor except green, green with a yellow stripe, white 120v/240 single or 3 ph gray 277v . Hell Ive used pink for control wiring. Tell me something i dont know

[mendezmoore]

GREAT VIDEO.. THANK YOU MUCH... I FIXED MY OUTLET THANKS TO YOU..... THANK YOU , THANK YOU, THANK YOU

[holywar911]

this video sucks...you are helping ppl set fire. if you are going to make a video give more info....tell them were the blk wire goes and were the white wire goes.

[copleygsxr]

neutral is blue, go to school, learn, do not give advice you will get someone killed 

[Fantome1989]

@copleygsxr Neutral is white in the United States. Black, red, and blue are live/hot.

[ThatKidKnows]

Live is Brown

Neutral is Blue

Please Remember this,or You'll be dead too.

Gunnite.

[TheDegree777]

I have a question i have a old ceramic two prong looks like some from the fifthies

or older in my garage its inside a metal conduit with a metal outlet mounted to a cinder

block wall my question is i want to replace with a three prong griunded outlet. want to expand it two four oulets two each with a bigger conduit box?

[jjustin241]

u have the wrong tools 

[scannerwa]

Admittedly, backcraft2 is right that electricity doesn't travel @ the speed of light. However there are other factors that determine how fast current travels. Not that this matters to the typical Joe who may not have much experience with electrical work & just wants to safely change their outlet without turning themselves into a briquette or paying a fortune having someone do it for them, which this video does sufficiently.

So, minus several points for physics, but kudos for the rest! :)

[3kgtss]

basically if you really want to change the receptacle.. unscrew thereceptacle out and check it there's more than two wires on each side.. if thats the case then it should be prety easy (white wires go on the silver screws and black wires go on the gold screw and the copper goes on the green screw)

[SaviourSole]

Don't depend on this video. If you don't know what you are doing, then you won't know if you are doing it wrong. And there are frequently tons of wires packed in there, making it difficult to work with. Frequently the wires are very old with the insulation brittle and falling off right in your hands.

At 1:45 it shows the neutrals all connected (poorly) to the receptacle, basically using the receptacle as if it were a wire nut. This used to be standard but is no longer acceptable.

[Nornamwiley]

OK lets try to explain this in lainmans terms. the black wire is the hot or positive wire, it supply power. the white is the neutral or negative wire, it is the return path to close the circuit. the bare wire is the ground, it is the safety wire to prevent exposrue of electrical power outside the confines of the circuit, going by the screws on a receptacle can cause cross wiring in the circuit. so never do this type of work on your own period. too many people die from electrical exposure & fires

[SaviourSole]

You don't know what you are talking about. There is no "positive" and "negative" here because this is AC. You are thinking about what you learned in high school about DC.

"Electrical power outside the confines of the circuit" isn't "cross wiring" it is SHORT CIRCUIT!

At least you know not to try to do this work yourself. That's definitely right.

[trucksoner]

@Nornamwiley hot is never referred to as positive, it is often called the negative, but even this isn't correct AC terminology

[flwalkman]

I thought this was going to be funny; but it is just a home improvement video.

[keveng]

I already know how to do this, its pretty easy and you dont have to cut off the power, simply dont touch the screws in the outlet and if you do its not a big scary shock its just a little pinch that tickles you. and use any screw driver it doesnt matter. Put the white wires on the gold screws and the black wire on the black screws, simple.

[oiyabastard]

treat every gun as if it was loaded

[keveng]

true about #2 i clearly messed up there

[russdonruss]

@keveng white wires do not go on the gold screws--gold screws are for the "hot" conductors. If the device has black screws it is either 1) outdated or 2) a 3-way switch. In a modern outlet, the white, neutral (or grounded) conductor goes on the silver screws; the hot (powered) conductor goes on the gold screws; the bare or green (grounding or equipment ground) conductor goes on the green screw. If you have more than one of any of these, you're far better off calling a qualified electrician.

[culwin]

LOL electricity travels at the speed of light. FAIL.

That was the only funny part of this video.

The rest was a waste of time.

[TheNeophyte13]

it doesnt work. see that's why it didnt work for me.

i just poured maple syrup all over the electrical socket. nothing doing.

[jogeryjogo]

i used to work as an electrician and one day i was hooking up some sockets in this old guys house and i just started to feel so horney, so i drew a pussy and a swastika around the socket i planned to fuck just to turn me on, then i started going at it, and i was fucking turned on, of course my partner was downstairs working on sockets too, and when he yelled "you ready to test" and i just moaned "yeah" then he shocked my cock like only a few times before in my life

[AndNoted]

when u say that ur partner was downstairs, do u mean ur life partner? r u gay?

[trucksoner]

it depends where you live. in a lot of places you need a permit for some or all stuff

but honestly screw a permit, this is so easy

[Nornamwiley]

truck! never under estimate the dangers of electrical energy. improper work with electrical circuitry will cause excelerated deterioration of the circuit and develop unsafe conditions in your home.

[trucksoner]

but i know how to do it safely myself and have extensively studied both a code book and a DIY book both on wiring. i am probably more careful than a lot of electricians, i know some who don't even kill the breaker to work on fixtures!

[russdonruss]

@trucksoner you sound like my 11 year old. He knows everything--just ask him. I'm an electrician, and I assure you that you are nowhere near as cautious as I am. I've wired thousands of outlets. Just because you did a few around your house doesn't make you an expert.

[trucksoner]

@russdonruss sorry, by code book i didn't mean that i'd studied the electrical code, i meant that i'd read those books on how to do code-compliant work that are usually written by people like electrical inspectors (at least the one everyone gets in my area is written by our former inspector). anyways i didn't say that i'm more cautious than all electricians, but a lot of electricians that i know (some of my friends' dads) don't even turn off the breaker before opening a junction box, which i do

[trucksoner]

@trucksoner it's called "electrical code simplified", so that's why i called it "the code book", everyone i know calls it that even though it's a bit misleading

[russdonruss]

@trucksoner and by the way, the Code book doesn't tell you how to wire the device. Its highly unlikely you would understand a majority of what the NEC is talking about in the first place as it is a legal technical document for the enforcement of safe wiring practices for the prevention of fire... It is not a how-to book.

[n3rdbear]

Was Wolverine fixing an electrical outlet?

[TheNeophyte13]

yea i tried the maple syrup method. didnt work for me. it worked for you though?

[blackcraft2]

Electricity does NOT travel at the speed of light.

it's the electric field that travels at the speed of light, as electromagnetic waves propagate at the speed of light in a vaccum.

Electricity (the electrons) barely travels at 10% the speed of light and it is only under perfect ideal conditions that electrons can get to higher speeds (the speed will never get close to the speed of light)

this video is fail at physics in every single way.

[maybachlover15]

@blackcraft2 If electricity travels at the speed of light why are we replacing old copper telephone wires to much faster fiber optic lines? because light moves much faster. I agree with your logic.

[atompkins99]

@blackcraft2 Way to school buddy, way to school.

[darkheat246]

@blackcraft2 A electric field is created by electrically charged particles, or by time varying magnetic fields; electric fields exert a force on other electrically charged particles.

[darkheat246]

Electric current is defined as the ordered movement of charge. The charge that moves in electricity could be ionic charges in a liquid or a gas. Most of us usually think of electrons as the charge carrier in electricity. Lets refine the question “How fast is a current comprising of moving electrons?”. One ampere of current flows when one Coulomb passes a given point in a circuit in one second. The Coulomb is the unit of charge as is equivalent to 6.25 x 10^18 electrons.

[uut0]

those plugs look like D= lol

[TheNeophyte13]

omg. last time i tried this i just shoved a butter knife into the hole thing and tried to force it out.

NOT a good idea.

then i tried the maple syrup...ugh...that didnt go well either.

[samuriking1]

maple... syrup... ?

[mini0mk]

Use a insultated screwdriver :)

[certifiedjagga]

Hay hay hay, no need to insult the poor screwdrivers!!

[Jicim]

make sure the replacement receptacle is rated for the circuit

[Garthman03]

I just did this last weekend in all outlets in my living room.. and now on wednesday, HC decides to post a vid about it..

[Probewitch]

You didn't say to test it by licking the socket.

[PCG520]

At least you already know...

[barnsleynut]

first :) i know im an idiot!

[DylanMackinnon1]

Don't ever forget...