Are their own wire nuts expensive? They would be shooting themselves in the foot if they are. If they sold wire nuts competitive with everybody else's, and Wagos are also acceptable, that overcomes most barriers.
Legal or not, I would have been tempted to shoot the person who thought I should pull wire thru that!!
Glad that you are sticking to your guns. Maybe a year ago I watched a vidio by believe one of the manufacturers of CCA. They stated that the aluminum has copper that is bonded to the aluminum and comprises 10% of the overall material and stated it could be used on devices only rated for copper. Did not mention anything about you have to use approved wire nuts for splices. I always pretwist my conductors then use my heaviest side cutters to tighten wire nuts. This does cut shallow grooves into copper wire but don't think it would penetrate CCA deep enough to expose aluminum material. Problem that I see with 10/2 of anything is required box volume when two or more NM cables are installed. I would not use CCA cable. Stopped lowering prices years ago when a customer asked for it. After I raised my hourly rate one customer would tell me that when I get slow to do a few days of work at my old rate. Told him that I am never slow and the rate is fair. Best thing about CCA is it has no scrape value as at the present time there is no easy way to remove the bonded copper from the aluminum. Heard contractors that use CCA are placing signs on jobs stating that they are only using CCA and scrape yards will not accept it.
I might post that same sign on sites where we're using copper.
That’s impressive brother. Im decent at bending pipe could use some practice tho
NICE
Seen the need for such design and to get point A to B that tight is definitely art.
Are most standard devices acceptable or must they be listed for CCA? If so what kind of price jump do those have over standard devices?
Question may be what is actual cost difference per foot of say 10 AWG? Yes you have lesser expensive core but what does it cost to make it that way vs just a solid copper conductor? Evidently that cost is low enough to have overall end result that cost less than solid copper but how much are we talking per average home?
The meth heads that most likely are the ones stealing copper won't pay any attention to the signs
They will pay attention after they try to sell it once and the scrap yard won't pay.
That does not match up with the information in the UL Guide Information for wire connectors.
Why, isn't modern electrical aluminum alloy more flexible than copper? Seems like that would make it easier to work with.
I'm thinking more fragile. Makes wonder now how easy the 10 would be.
Easier to bend once; risky to bend multiple times.
