CIECO said:Has anyone used or seen a new 3 conductor NMB that is not twisted. I have a customer who telling me about it but in checking the manufactures web sites I do not see any thing. Just wondering if any one has seen it.
How do you strip it?Dennis Alwon said:Much easier to strip.
I usually use a knife to start it and go around the sheathing to score it. It just pulls off easily. I also have used the ideal tool and squeeze very gently around the perimeter to score the jacket and then slide it off. I have also done the round cable this way but the jacket slides more easily on the flat.al hildenbrand said:How do you strip it?
billisa67 said:This might seem a bit strange, but I think they did it to save money. In my mind a 250 foot roll of twisted conductors would use more copper than a roll of straight conductors. I would have no idea how much more lenght you would gain if you would untwist the single conductors of the nm cable.
480sparky said:Which raises the question: Is the 250' the total length of the cable, or the amount of copper used to produce it?
In other words, did it start out as 250' of individual wires, and when made into a cable, it ends up being, say, 245'?
CIECO said:Not by me. By the way the 250' is done at packaging. Who is manufactureing this wire.
Don't look too hard. When it shows up, you're not going to like it much, I believe.CIECO said:NY must be a tuff market because I have never seen it and I asked in a couple of supply houses and looked in the big stores and they look at me like I am nuts.
CIECO said:I took a ride to the big blue store and got a 25' of 12/3 and 14/3 boy does that look like crap.