2 gang plastic box capacity

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augie47

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On 2 gang boxes Carlon has 32 cu in, Slater has 35. Anybody know of one with greater capacity ?
 
An EZ48 is 4" X 4" X 4". They fit perfectly on a 3.5" stud with 1/2 drywall.

I would not use Carlon 2 gang, 3 gang or 4 gang boxes even if they were free.
 
The EZ48 has outside dimensions of 4x4x4. There is no way that the volume is actually 48 cubic inches.
 
don_resqcapt19 said:
The EZ48 has outside dimensions of 4x4x4. There is no way that the volume is actually 48 cubic inches.
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I Googled the cube root of 48 and got 3.63424118566, so it's certainly plausible[FONT=Roboto-Regular, helvetica, arial, sans-serif].[/FONT]
 
don_resqcapt19 said:
The EZ48 has outside dimensions of 4x4x4. There is no way that the volume is actually 48 cubic inches.
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Take away volume of the walls of the box, and any other missing volume by not being a complete cube and you have to give up 16 cubic inches somewhere to get to 48. That is a slightly smaller than an average 1 gang nail on box volume.
 
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