Copper To Aluminum Butt splice

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Jeff Weissman Electric

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Today I find this... Copper pigtails with yellow butt splices. Not even a good crimp tool marks on it. It just looks like they were squeezed with their Kleins.
Do Electrical contractors really sell this as a pigtail or an approved method?
 
Creative!? That's downright criminal! :mad:

A) I never use butt splices on permises wiring.

2) I never use crimps on solid conductors.

D) Standard wirenuts would have been better.


I bet a portable electric heater was used on this circuit.
 
Jeff Weissman Electric said:
LarryFine said:
I bet a portable electric heater was used on this circuit.
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Nope... Just 20amp kitchen counter top receptacles.
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Well, coffee makers and toaster-ovens are portable . . .

. . . and they're electric . . .

. . . and they get hot . . .

. . . and . . . and . . .
 
Jeff Weissman Electric said:
Today I find this... Copper pigtails with yellow butt splices. Not even a good crimp tool marks on it. It just looks like they were squeezed with their Kleins.
Do Electrical contractors really sell this as a pigtail or an approved method?
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Wouldn't it be easier to just replace with Cu/Al rated devices?
 
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