dhalleron
Senior Member
- Location
- Louisville, KY
Not sure if I know how to attach a photo yet.
If the photo works, I found this connection in a crawl space today. It was a dryer circuit. Aluminum to aluminum spliced here with the wrong connectors and no junction box. One other splice was copper to aluminum using butt splices. That connection survived. This splice is at least 17 years old since the owners bought the house and probably older.
They called me because the dryer would not power on. The light would not even work inside. That was because the neutral was broke as shown in the photo, not because of the burned hot wire. The wirenut on the bare wire fell off as soon as I touched it.
See the fiberglass insulation stuck to the burnt wirenut? I pulled this out of an insulated flexible furnace duct under the crawl. It melted the plastic outer shell and found it's way into the fiberglass.
It's all copper now, with no junctions.