Two questions:
1) The small spring type wire splices – are they allowed by code yet? I’ve seen them in several Home Depots, which means nothing.
2) Recently helped a daughter add a ceiling light in a bedroom. The room met 1976 code by having a switched wall outlet. The switch had a 14/3+G, w/ the red wire coming out switched & the black continuing on to power the remaining outlets. To add the cable up to the celing light, we put in TWO Junction boxes because the cable we cut (after turning off the power) was too short to do it any other way. How do real electricians do it? Do they have a wire stretcher that isn’t available to the rest of us great unwashed? I could figure no way to get an extra 16 inches from a cable that had essentially zero slack.
Don
The Glass Masterworks
“If it scratches, I etch it!”
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"Do they have a wire stretcher that isn't available to the rest of us great unwashed?"
Yes. See the thread on a bucket of steam.
As to the first question, typically the code does not allow or disallow any device.
What the require is "approved" devices. That means by a independent recognized laboratory. Basically that mean UL.
And if you are talking about the flat connections with several different hole that can push wire into there are ones that are UL approved.
William the Geezer, the sequel to Billy the Kid - Shoe
My grandfather, who was the most famous rigger in NJ back in the '30's through about 1950, had a skyhook that made raising all sorts of heavy items easier. All his competitors were jealous.
My daughter, an ER physician, has a fallopian tube for easy removal of foreign objects from ears. Great at getting out dead cockroaches , peanuts & beads from junk jewelry.
Ever heard of Rush Limbaugh's disgronifier circuit that does wondrous things in electronic signal processig?
Thanks for the water heater info.
DonDon Reinhard
The Glass Masterworks
"If it scratches, I etch it!"
I don't get it. Most daughters (ER physicians or not) have fallopian tubes. That's what makes 'em daughters.
Fergetit. Lousey attempt to be fnny that backfired.
DonDon Reinhard
The Glass Masterworks
"If it scratches, I etch it!"
I got it, but it was plumbing related right ;-)
See how lousy a joke it was? Nah, it was just meant to fall into the "skhook" category.
Heard about the OB/GYN who was temporaily out of a job in his field, so got a job as a housepainter? Went to a house & the owner wasn't home & forgot to leave the key where she said. OB proceeded to paint the entire living room through the mail slot in the door.
Now THAT's an eye-roller!
DonDon Reinhard
The Glass Masterworks
"If it scratches, I etch it!"
Make it a urologist and they'd paint through the keyhole.
The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of a mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one. --Wilhelm Stekel
I've had my urologist (affectionately called a "plumber," w/ apologies to real plumbers) go in there w/ the Mt Palomar 200 inch telescope. Which, however, is nowhere near as bad as the multitude of times he explorered my prostate w/ the train from the Channel Tunnel through another orifice. Which introduced me to his brand new female PA. But, hey, I'm now a nearly 5 yr survivor of prostate cancer.
And the beat goes on.
DonDon Reinhard
The Glass Masterworks
"If it scratches, I etch it!"
Yeah, they've been up there four times in the past year (due to stones) for me, and working on the fifth. Thankfully I've been knocked out for all of them, so far. It's a pretty undignified position they put you in, I gather.
The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of a mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one. --Wilhelm Stekel
I've been conscious every tme - but it was only to look around.
DonDon Reinhard
The Glass Masterworks
"If it scratches, I etch it!"
Look around what?
God is REAL, unless explicitly declared INTEGER
Hey - never seen the inside of your own bladder?
DonDon Reinhard
The Glass Masterworks
"If it scratches, I etch it!"
Nope, but seen the inside of my intestines. (I can feel a wise crack coming.)
God is REAL, unless explicitly declared INTEGER
(I can feel a wise crack coming.)
dang, sounds more like two of them.
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Hey - I've seen that, too. Really neat, isn't it? Did it really look like you? or was it someone else on a video tape? Who knows - it coulda been Raquel Welch! Saw the inside of wife's shoulder when they repaired her rotator cuff. On a 32 inch monitor w/ the surgeon's PA standing there in case I fainted. Now THAT was reality TV.
Have we digressed? Or does all this have something to do w/ junction boxes. Wonder if the guy w/ the blue pencil is writing down our names, getting ready to report us to big brother? Think he'd have a cow if we used some of the proper technical terms for parts of the body you can't use slang terms for? Wonder what Old Bue Nose would think if I talked about the width of a parabola or hyperbola at their respective foci?
DonDon Reinhard
The Glass Masterworks
"If it scratches, I etch it!"
Then there was the other OB/GYN that was looking for a new career in auto repair, so he took a course at the local tech school.
When he got his final exam grade, it read:
150% --
100% for perfectly rebuilding the car engine.
50 points extra credit for doing through the exhaust pipe.
You gotta read the "bucket 'o steam" thread to get this one.
Mike HennessyPittsburgh, PA
"we put in two junction boxes...."
You're adding a ceiling light, so 1 box gets mounted in the ceiling, then you run your new wire from there over and back down to the original switch location and pigtail your leads into switch box...which is box #2...yep, that would be 2 boxes all right. Nothing wrong with that set-up.....except....that wasn't what you did...was it?
That would have required putting holes in walls to retrieve an end of cable - those dratted staples near boxes make that a nightmare. Now, were I an OB Dr, & capable of doing all sorts of work at the ends of long tunnels...
As I suspected - real 'lecktrishins have a cable stretcher...
DonDon Reinhard
The Glass Masterworks
"If it scratches, I etch it!"