Wire Nuts

[Wolfshoon]

We did some work for some folks that had moved here from Scotland a few years ago to the Pinery $$$ (parker).

They had never seen them. I was surprised.

Ah, the Pinery. Co-worker there had to re-do every outlet in his house with special AL to CU pigtails since the older houses there were built with aluminum wiring instead of copper. He had remodeled a room and county electrical inspector wrote up the whole house, that remodel got very expensive. Aluminum corrodes over time with the small wires in the wire nuts and then creates high resistance = fire. Special crimping tool and anti-corrosion gel connectors for the AL to CU pigtails.


As to wire nuts, they are sized by color as the standard. The Large plastic jars they sell them in now work good, as do clear plastic warehouse food containers once you eat the food.

[Brian]

Ah, the Pinery. Co-worker there had to re-do every outlet in his house with special AL to CU pigtails since the older houses there were built with aluminum wiring instead of copper. He had remodeled a room and county electrical inspector wrote up the whole house, that remodel got very expensive. Aluminum corrodes over time with the small wires in the wire nuts and then creates high resistance = fire. Special crimping tool and anti-corrosion gel connectors for the AL to CU pigtails.

Family member just bought a house down outside of Franktown that has all AL wiring, and he has to pigtail every outlet, light, switch, etc. Yeah, those fancy pigtail adapters are apparently not cheap.