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Originally Posted by FishEggs
most corded drills are 2 prong now anyway. in fact out of all the power tools i use the heavy duty machinery (tablesaw, old radial arm saw, drill press) are the ones with 3 prongs. Sparky is correct in that the answer to that is using a GFCI whether it's a portable one or a wall outlet. you should never take a ground prong off a cord. we cant use any extension cords where the ground has been broken off on any jobsite for a reason.
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I never said remove the ground prong I said use an adapter to temporarily bypass the the ground. A GFCI is not going to work properly anyway on a 2 pronged plug because the device doesn't have a ground reference, a large amount of current will have to occur in order to trip the GFCI, If you are using a the grounded plug the GFCI will trip upon the slightest current from it's ground reference, less than 250ma. The reason I said bypass the ground is because if you are touching any grounded part of the drill and you are drilling in water you now just became the path for the electricity to flow thru. You see if the ground is bypassed and you yourself are isolated from ground you wont gat zapped.