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Posted by on December 10, 2006, 5:31 am
With the price of Romex these days, I would not throw ANY of it away.
Lets say you got an outlet on your workbench and need another on the
other end of the bench. You might only need a 4 or 6 foot piece. Or
you need to wire several outlets or switches inside one box and need
one foot of the black wire, so you strip off the Outer romex coating
and extract that piece of black (or white). Why cut a foot off a full
roll when there are scraps. I also find the individual wires are good
for wrapping around stuff. I know I have had a muffler bracket break
on my car and used a piece of #12 wire to hold it in place till I get
a proper bracket. Things like that are handy to have. Take a small
piece of plywood and nail it across two floor joists in your basement
and stick the scraps up there. It's out of the way till you need it.
I must say I never heard of splicing that many pieces of wire
together. I am always against wasting stuff, and even if I did want
to get rid of that wire, I'd sell it to a recycler, copper brings a
good price now. But I think the guy that wired your house with the
K&T must have run out of wire that day. Just seems like a lot of work
for 12 feet of wire. But if it's soldered, it was probably good as
anything....
BTW: That "sheathing" they slipped on is called LOOM. You need to
have worked with K&T to know that word :) These young electricians
probably never heard of it.....
Mark
On Sat, 09 Dec 2006 17:43:59 -0500, David Starr
>
>>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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