An old timer at the hangar in Tulsa told me 'the book is a guide, not a god' after I spent six hours chasing a phantom hydraulic leak.

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That old timer is giving dangerous advice. The book exists because people died figuring out the right way to do things. Following it exactly is what keeps you from making a simple problem into a catastrophic one.

oscarwilliams8d ago

My buddy Mike was rewiring his basement last year and skipped the code about junction box covers. He said it was just a temporary splice. Two weeks later a short circuit started a small fire behind his drywall. That's exactly what @ericjackson is talking about. Those rules seem annoying until you realize they're written in ashes. Mike's house almost burned down over a two dollar piece of plastic.