11B box

[MikeGee]

Hey here's a not so impotant question that I have been asking every electrician that I come across for the past 5 years.

If a big 1900 box is called an 11B why is it called 11B which sounds a lot like an 8B box? Wouldn't it be better suited being called a 2100 box? lol

 

[mdshunk]

A mixture of two different manufacturer's old part numbers. Some took hold for certain boxes, and another's for other boxes. If I remember rightly, the "real" 8B box is only a 3-1/4" octagon anyhow.

 

[MikeGee]

A mixture of two different manufacturer's old part numbers. Some took hold for certain boxes, and another's for other boxes. If I remember rightly, the "real" 8B box is only a 3-1/4" octagon anyhow.

thats what I know it to be I think. 3-1/4 inch octagon.

 

[charlie k.]

Marc, wasn't the 3" octagon called a 17A? I dont remember it been 25 years since I used one.

Charlie

 

[mdshunk]

Marc, wasn't the 3" octagon called a 17A? I dont remember it been 25 years since I used one.

Bests me. You've probably been an electrician more years than I've been alive.

 

[charlie k.]

Marc, I only look and feel that old. I am still young at heart.

Charlie

 

[peter d]

Marc is only 18 years old. Can't you see his avatar picture?

 

[480sparky]

Marc is only 18 years old. Can't you see his avatar picture?

I thought he is Doogie Howser's little brother.

 

[R Bob]

Marc, wasn't the 3" octagon called a 17A? I dont remember it been 25 years since I used one.

Charlie

"17A" is what I always called it.

 

[charlie k.]

Thanks Bob, I could not remember what we used to call them. Looked for my old handbook and I think my son made off with it.


Charlie

 

[tkb]

We used to call 4" sq raised covers 19T for a single toggle, 19D for a duplex, 19TD for a toggle/duplex.