Making a 4 way plug. Legal?

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aftershock

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We did a job Friday at a jewlrey shop. Wired a 2 gang box that has a switch that controls a recep. We took a 4" square, a raised quad recep plate, 2 duplex receps and a 6' pigtail. Made a 4 way which we mounted to the work bench and it plugs into the switched recep.

Is the 4 way we made considered illegal?
 
aftershock said:
A standard pigtail you would get at the supply house.
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If it's a cord.... 400.8(A).
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benaround said:
Rick,

Sounds like you made them a heavy duty extention cord.
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Well,, what he had was a power stip plugged into an extension cord to the nearest recp.
He would turn the switch on and off at the strip as needed to run the lights and I think a grinder. He was having to buy a new strip every so often since the switch would quit working.
What we did was wire a switched recep on the wall close to the workbench. I guess he could do away with what we made and just use his power strip.
 
aftershock said:
We did a job Friday at a jewlrey shop. Wired a 2 gang box that has a switch that controls a recep. We took a 4" square, a raised quad recep plate, 2 duplex receps and a 6' pigtail. Made a 4 way which we mounted to the work bench and it plugs into the switched recep.

Is the 4 way we made considered illegal?
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"Made a 4 way which we mounted to the work bench and it plugs into the switched recep."


With the 4sq. not being hard wired to the switch box, is that really legal?


aftershock, why didn't you hard wire it?
 
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if i understand you correctly, you made your own double duplex extension cord and power it by plugging it into a switched receptacle that is mounted next to the switch that powers it?
sounds a bit hoakie to me. couldnt you have hard wired it in pipe?
 
aftershock said:
Well,, what he had was a power stip plugged into an extension cord to the nearest recp.
He would turn the switch on and off at the strip as needed to run the lights and I think a grinder. He was having to buy a new strip every so often since the switch would quit working.
What we did was wire a switched recep on the wall close to the workbench. I guess he could do away with what we made and just use his power strip.
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Rick, You took that all wrong, I don't see anything wrong with what you did. He had a

puiny power cord and what he needed was a 'heavy duty extention cord'.
 
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