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HOLY SHIT!!! Be careful...

Posted by bartc on June 1, 2007 at 16:27:19:
I'm no electrician. Advice I've read repeatedly here is NOT try to set up a separate grounding mechanism such as you propose - apparently quite dangerous.

Your box may be what they tell me is BX, meaning a metal box actually grounded already through a metal flexible conduit to the breaker box and house ground. If that sounds like what you see, then you have a ground. I'm not sure any house could have been built to code for much of the last century without at least that kind (or an alternate) grounding scheme.

Please check with our electrically gifted guys here before you try anything else.

ELECTRICITY CAN AND DOES KILL!!!! Know what you're doing first, please.