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Posted by =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=22Blattus_Slaf on January 28, 2008, 9:11 am
benjunk@pookmail.com wrote:
> Ideally wires going into a wire nut will have only so much bare wire
> so that that bare wire is entirely underneath the nut and you only see
> insulated wire coming out the bottom. It seems like by design there's
> maybe a 1/4" of insulation tucked up in the nut (measuring from the
> nut's bottom edge).
>
> My question is what if one of the wires in the nut has its insulation
> cut point at about level with the nut's bottom. So that if you look
> straight on from the side you don't see any bare wire, but if you tilt
> the nut so you can underneath it you can see the bare wire just above
> the rim.
>
> I can't imagine this really matters, but thought i'd check first. I'm
> finding this happening to me occasionally as I do a project. It's
> when I've got 4 #12's to fit in a red wire nut. I twist them with my
> klein's first (as directed by the inspector). Occasionally, although
> the wires start with the same amount of bare wire all lined up, one of
> those wires slips down a bit during the twist, so that if I were to
> cut off the bare twist so that that one wire will stick up well in the
> nut, the rest of the wires would be pretty short.
>
> Thanks for any advice.
Make sure it didn't come loose in there then tape the whole thing. No
problem.
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Blattus Slafaly ? 3 :) 7/8
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