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Installing Electrical Boxes and Receptacles

Keep boxes straight and splices tight for safe, trouble-free circuits

by Rex Cauldwell

Here are a number of tips on a topic you thought you already understood. The author, a master electrician, explains the ins and outs of electrical boxes and receptacles, from box size to safe wire splices.

From Fine Homebuilding103, pp. 58-63
July 1, 1996
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Installing | Rough Electrical | Electrical Wire | Boxes | Breakers and Fuses | Receptacles | Electrical | Electrical Parts
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