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Posted by Eigenvector on December 9, 2006, 4:54 pm
> Eigenvector wrote:
>> Since finishing my basement, I'm left with odds and ends of Romex 12/2.
>> My
>> feeling is to toss them out, none of them are really all that long, but
>> it
>> leaves me wondering - what's the minimum length of Romex that you'd keep
>> for
>> another job (if the opportunity presented itself)? I think for me, 10
>> feet
>> would be tempting - it would be a stretch, but it would/could bridge the
>> gap
>> between two outlets.
>>
>> I don't even entertain the idea of splicing Romex together.
>
> Call some local scrap yards. Around here they take jacketed cable and
> just pay less for the weight.
>
> R
>
Hmm from what Haller and yourself indicate, I'm glad I did save the old
stuff instead of tossing it with the old drywall and building scraps.
I don't have a ton right now, but when the house is re-wired finally I'll
have miles of old 3 wire Romex. I'm sure by then the price of copper will
have bottomed out and I'll have to pay them 50cents a pound.
Maybe it won't be so bad, the wire + about 100 lbs of old 30-06 and 8mm
shell casings, might be a profitable spring cleaning.
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Posted by David Starr on December 9, 2006, 5:43 pm
>Since finishing my basement, I'm left with odds and ends of Romex 12/2. My
>feeling is to toss them out, none of them are really all that long, but it
>leaves me wondering - what's the minimum length of Romex that you'd keep for
>another job (if the opportunity presented itself)?
Our house was built in 1917, and was all K&T, of course. When I remodeled the
dining room, I found that the ceiling fixture had the hot wire covered with a
type of slip-on sheathing. When I removed the sheathing, I saw what they did
with all their cut-off ends. I had a 12ft length of copper wire made up of
pieces ranging from 6" to 12" long, all spliced and carefully soldered together.
They used everything back in them days!
BTW, all the framing in this place is full dimension.
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Posted by HeyBub on December 9, 2006, 6:29 pm
David Starr wrote:
>
> Our house was built in 1917, and was all K&T, of course. When I
> remodeled the dining room, I found that the ceiling fixture had the
> hot wire covered with a type of slip-on sheathing. When I removed
> the sheathing, I saw what they did with all their cut-off ends. I
> had a 12ft length of copper wire made up of pieces ranging from 6" to
> 12" long, all spliced and carefully soldered together. They used
> everything back in them days!
>
There was a war on.
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Posted by Don Fearn on December 9, 2006, 6:35 pm
>David Starr wrote:
>>
>> Our house was built in 1917, and was all K&T, of course. When I
>> remodeled the dining room, I found that the ceiling fixture had the
>> hot wire covered with a type of slip-on sheathing. When I removed
>> the sheathing, I saw what they did with all their cut-off ends. I
>> had a 12ft length of copper wire made up of pieces ranging from 6" to
>> 12" long, all spliced and carefully soldered together. They used
>> everything back in them days!
>>
>
>There was a war on.
>
There's still a war on.
Only this time, we're encouraged to SPEND, SPEND, SPEND . . .
. . . to SUPPORT the war effort!
Things have changed since then . . . .
--
"Trust me, there is NO way to nonchalantly conceal the fact that you have a
power tool in your head, no matter what you do." -- El Gato
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Posted by on December 10, 2006, 5:38 am
wrote:
>
>>David Starr wrote:
>>>
>>> Our house was built in 1917, and was all K&T, of course. When I
>>> remodeled the dining room, I found that the ceiling fixture had the
>>> hot wire covered with a type of slip-on sheathing. When I removed
>>> the sheathing, I saw what they did with all their cut-off ends. I
>>> had a 12ft length of copper wire made up of pieces ranging from 6" to
>>> 12" long, all spliced and carefully soldered together. They used
>>> everything back in them days!
>>>
>>
>>There was a war on.
>>
>There's still a war on.
>
>Only this time, we're encouraged to SPEND, SPEND, SPEND . . .
>
>. . . to SUPPORT the war effort!
Yeah, but this time we just raise the national debt so the next 3 or 4
generations will have to pay for Bush's blunder.
That moron will haunt people for the rest of this century, if not
longer.
>
>
>Things have changed since then . . . .
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