soaked electrical outlet

Grumpy

The Grumpy Grease Monkey mechanical engineer.
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While using the pressure washer in my garage I sprayed my outlet and blew the circuit. After 24 hours the circuit will still not reset. In the breaker box it has the ground fault breaker and there is a GFCI outlet in the circuit.
What do I need to do to get my power back? The breaker has blown before and I just hit the reset button and it resets. Now when I hit the button nothing is happening it does not click or try to reset.
Thanks,

we all make mistakes, this ones fairly cheap and simple to repair,
make 100% sure the powers off by flipping the beaker controlling the outlet,
if you have one stand on a good rubber mat,
disassemble the wet outlet, clean dry , and flush exposed wires with wd40 ,
replace outlet plug assembly, then reconnect the wires too new outlet guts,
GENERALLY (BLACK wires, to gold screws white to silver screws green to ground)
LOOK AT DIAGRAM CCAREFULLY
if that won,t cure it, replace GFI outlet also, total time under 15 minutes per outlet even if your not electrically skilled cost under $18 per outlet

use 20 amp rated GFI outlets

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http://www.homedepot.com/p/Leviton-...Test-GFCI-Outlet-Gray-R93-GFNT2-KGY/206000156

http://www.homedepot.com/p/Leviton-...Test-GFCI-Outlet-Gray-R93-GFNT2-KGY/206000156

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use 20 amp rated slave outlets behind the 20 amp rated gfi master control outlet
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http://www.homedepot.com/p/Leviton-20-Amp-Duplex-Outlet-White-10-Pack-M02-CBR20-WMP/203996698
 
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thats probably true but they still sell 15 amp GFI outlets
 
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