Submitted by: Jon via Submit a Kludge!
Wary of the cameraman, only the Gremlin’s hand is visible as it darts out of view. Next time! – Ms. Fix-It
Favorite Comment: Fixer Waffo says, “In the future, even cyborgs will have to put up with their elders saying things like “Cut your hair, hippie! Get a job! And while you’re at it, move out and do something with your life!” Poor cyborgs, always misunderstood.”
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not a problem for someone who can read a schematic and has the proper tools.
much simpler, actually, than all the black box crap we have now; individual components can be replaced, instead of whole modules. i like old stuff that is serviceable.
Are fkking kidding? That is an electrical booby trap/deathtrap/firehazard of the first degree!
And that’s even before turning on the power!
This is really not as bad as it looks. It just needs to be thoroughly rinsed off with a garden hose.
Using some detangling shampoo couldn’t hurt either.
But forego the hot oil treatment. The split ends look fine.
Rogaine needed for the upper area, though.
I don’t remember submitting any of my lockers.
What? It’s a wire box. You expected ping-pong balls?
Bowling balls, actually…
Yeah, grow up everyone, it’s just a wire box! I’m tired of people sensationalizing wire boxes. They are just like any other box. Sure, sometimes they are covered in what appears to be human blood and have such a dense mass of knotted wiring they cause the formation of black holes, but they are JUST WIRE BOXES.
No, but workmanship up to code would be nice!
I’ve seen worse. During arson investigations.
I saw that episode of “Punky Brewster” too; wherein Cherie becomes an arson investigator to avenge the arson fire that completely destroyed Henry’s downtown photography studio, almost killing Henry, and forcing Punky back into foster care.
I’d seriously think this should be posted on the other site called:
“-Oups, I DIDN’T fix it, I totally screwed up!”
“Hey, Steve! It’s noon already, man. Stop what you’re doing there and tell me what you want to do for lunch today because I’m starving!”
“Well…for some reason, I am craving a huge plate of spaghetti something fierce!!”
To defuse the bomb you’ll need to cut the blue wire, no the black wire, no – the red wire, no – the purple wire, no – the other red wire, no, no, the other red wire – the one on the left. THE OTHER LEFT.
NNNOOOOOOOO!!!
Run Forest, RUN!
Everything looks so…juicy. I think I have amp-le time before I will be hungry again.
Would you like a shish ka-boomb? I think when / if this goes off it will go with a bang. Then again I’m no electrician, it could just go out with a fizz(y) drink.
Must be a huge gremlin to require such a massive fishing hook. The yellow bait is not gold-like enough, so he escaped.
“Boss, it looks like we have only 10 seconds left to disarm this bomb…”
“Easy Steve, just cut the green cable”
9s…
8s…
7s…
“Boss, have you seen my pliers?”
6s…
5s…
“I left them in my wife’s trunk, why?”
“just asking….”
“Here, use this”
3s…
2s…
“A hammer?”
1s…
“For * sake Steve, stop compl…..
MACGRUBER!
The CIRCUIT BREAKER’S connected to the WATER HEATER,
The CIRCUIT BREAKER’S connected to the GARAGE DOOR,
The CIRCUIT BREAKER’S connected to the GAS OVEN,
Ain’t that what a schematic’s for?
The CIRCUIT BREAKER’S connected to the COMPUTER,
The CIRCUIT BREAKER’S connected to the BASEMENT LIGHT,
The CIRCUIT BREAKER’S connected to the TABLE SAW,
I swear I knew what wire was what before…
“All done, now for some duct tape to insulate evey thing”
Instant electrical execution…just add water.
I dunno, looks like most of the stuff I get to work on. You’d be surprised at what a rats nest of wiring most HVAC systems are.
Seriously, what’s the big deal? I’ve had bowl movements more complicated than this.
“bowl movements? Huh?
He must be getting a ton of fiber in his diet to fill the bowl.
Whats the transformer for? How powerful is it?
Looks like about 250 VA capacity.
the transformer is for control voltage of the relays.
Close it again, after all, it was working before openning, cross your fingers.
Are you sure you replaced the light bulb because the wiring looks fine to me…
Sweet mother of Tessla!
Do you mean Tesla? That guy could transmit ac power through the air back around 1912.
P.S. He knew about magnetic flux before Marty ever met Doc.
Great Scott!!! That’s heavy!!
In the future, even cyborgs will have to put up with their elders saying things like “Cut your hair, hippie! Get a job! And while you’re at it, move out and do something with your life!” Poor cyborgs, always misunderstood.
Ever hear the old redneck expression “If it doesn’t go fast enough, use WD-40, if it goes too fast, use duct tape”? I’d say his stuff is running pretty quick.
Wow, what a mess. Glad I work in the PC industry, where proper cable management and elimination of wire clutter is a must.
Sarge is right, guys; we need to pay more attention to him and what he does for a living. But, Sarge, are you being sarcastic? It’s really hard to tell.
Sarge is just a poser of suposed computer skills. I have proven him wrong on sevral occasions when he states suposed computer facts. Ignore him, I do.
Gremlins? I never understood the rule about not feeding them after midnight. (I mean, isn’t it technically always after midnight?) But I kind of see now why not to get them wet.
But if I were going to guess what movie title was being illustrated here, though, I would have said “The Hurt Locker.”
I was actually giving a sly nod to the Gremlins ability in the Shadowrun table top game. If you have Gremlins, you spontaneously cause electronic failure. ^_^
‘Course you were, Ms. Fix-It! But my train of thought likes to wander well off track, especially late at night. I started thinking about how much corporations run our lives, which got me into the territory of 1980s blockbuster movie franchises, and I got to thinking about how those Gremlins sure ruined a lot of kitchen appliances, and then… er, what were we talking about again?
Instead of gremlins, I wish we could find cute lil’ Phoebe Cates hidden inside this wire box.
Nuke it from orbit till it’s grandchildren glow, that’s the only way to be sure…
I’ve dealt with bad motor control panels in my years, but that one is horrid. You are supposed to install the Pan-Duct plastic channel to corral all the point-to-point wiring, a wiring diagram on the inside of the door, and have all the fuses and relays marked so you have a chance at troubleshooting it.
And when you make changes, you replace the labels and try to keep it understandable for the next guy – because it’ll probably be you again, about three months after you thoroughly forget what you did to get it going the last time.
That one has patches on top of kludges on top of “(Blank) it, let’s just get it working and go home! It’s two hours past quitting time already…” I’m not too proud to tell the boss “I either get a full day to go through and fix it right, or I’m not touching it, period.”
My husband wired that didn’t he…Have I told the story about the time I had to get a licensed electrician in to give me an estimate for insurance and the guy asked me how long we lived there and I told him and he was shocked my house did not burn own in all those years. Hubby had wired the 220 completely wrong. Pulling the mains on the house did nothing either. Geeze another night I’ll have nightmares thinking about all this. Yes, I am still married to him over 30 years later.
“…I told him and he was shocked…”
Nice!
Let me try.
“…mains on the house did nothing…”
Rats! I don’t quite seem to have the hang of it. What did I do wrong? Let me try again.
“…to give me an estimate for insurance…”
*sigh* Okay. I give up. You win this round, dono!
Looks like the wiring under the dash of my car……….
Except your car wiring is hooked on 12VDC (low voltage)
Yeesh. What a godawful mess. Who the hell is responsible for that tangle of spaghet…
…wait, *I* didn’t build that, did I?
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Looks like the inside of the control panel for the deck oven I run every night…
Ya know, all you’d have to do to cure this mess is to remove the wiring and rebuild the box to the specs on the schematic sheet, then wire tie everything nice and neat…
Wait, that’d make sense…forget what I said.
Day 297: These zombies are getting much smarter. Today I was so hungry I followed what seemed to be a floating twinkie. I almost walked right into their elaborate trap, which would’ve been certain death.
P.S. I need to find this stash of twinkies they have. P.P.S. With the sun having exploded I seem to have become awfully pale.
Wait a minute . . .
That hand on the left — that’s no gremlin — it’s — it’s –
RED GREEN!
quondam omni flunkus moritati
10 Commandments of Electrical Technicians
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10. Causeth thou to be tagged all modifications made by thee upon thy equipment lest thy successor teareth out his hair and goeth slowly mad in his attempt to decide what manner of creature hath made a nest in the wiring of such equipment.
Cut the blue wire!
In the MRO industry, we refer to such things as “job security”.
National Electric Code
Paragraph 110.12 Mechanical Execution of Work: Electrical equipment shall be installed in a neat and workmanlike manner.
Depends on your definition of “neat”.
This reminds me of our intercom system
The poor man was cursing for an hour until he could finally start.
And we have a space for sewer pips in the bathroom where there is an small box with the text ‘Intercom’.
I’m afraid that if your remove that, in the whole flat the bells will stop working. Or worse…
“Yes, I’d like a noodle salad–with PCB’s–on the side!?!
um was it the red wire or the green wait yellow maybe blue,black,oh hell il cut this one…(loud noise)… anyone know where the house just went?
BTW, this is an elavator control box,
take the stairs!
my dad’s an electrician, and so I’ve seen my share of wireing jobs, and know a good one from a bad one, whomever did that wire box in the picture needs to be fired for incompetance. it’s a MESS
Looks like that well control for the BP well int he gulf, no wonder the BOP didnt close. The blue wire should have been connected to the left contactor, not the right.
Man I’d hate to be the person who has to repair that thing