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334.100
The outer cable sheath of nonmetallic sheathed cable shall be made of nonmetallic material


If the sheath wasn't made from nonmetallic material, it wouldn't be nonmetallic sheathed.

I feel dumber for having read that
 

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If they did not require the sheath to be NM it would not be NM sheathed cable. :)

People might make it out of metal.

I can't recall where I saw it recently, but I saw a statement something along the lines that insulators will be made of a non-conductive material.
 
It reminds me of when I was a kid our family was in a restaurant named Paul Bunyan when we were on vacation. We noticed there was a plaque under a long glass case that had a saw in it, so we got up from our meal to check out whether it had some historical or other significance. The engraved brass plaque said "Two Man Saw" with the explanation below "Used by two men to saw wood in old days." Well that was a waste of time while our meals were getting cold.
 
synchro said:
It reminds me of when I was a kid our family was in a restaurant named Paul Bunyan when we were on vacation. We noticed there was a plaque under a long glass case that had a saw in it, so we got up from our meal to check out whether it had some historical or other significance. The engraved brass plaque said "Two Man Saw" with the explanation below "Used by two men to saw wood in old days." Well that was a waste of time while our meals were getting cold.
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Paul Bunyan used an AX
 
synchro said:
It reminds me of when I was a kid our family was in a restaurant named Paul Bunyan when we were on vacation. We noticed there was a plaque under a long glass case that had a saw in it, so we got up from our meal to check out whether it had some historical or other significance. The engraved brass plaque said "Two Man Saw" with the explanation below "Used by two men to saw wood in old days." Well that was a waste of time while our meals were getting cold.
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For Paul Bunyan it was a two-handed saw. :)

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James L said:
334.100
The outer cable sheath of nonmetallic sheathed cable shall be made of nonmetallic material


If the sheath wasn't made from nonmetallic material, it wouldn't be nonmetallic sheathed.

I feel dumber for having read that
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Lmao! Why didn't I ever notice this. Gotta love the code panel.

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petersonra said:
If they did not require the sheath to be NM it would not be NM sheathed cable. :)

People might make it out of metal.

I can't recall where I saw it recently, but I saw a statement something along the lines that insulators will be made of a non-conductive material.
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I once saw something that looked like NM cable, but the sheath was lead. It was buried, going from a house to a detached garage. It came up into a switch box in the garage, the rest of the wiring in the garage was BX.
Was that what they used for "UF" back 'then', whenever 'then' was?
 
robertd said:
I once saw something that looked like NM cable, but the sheath was lead. It was buried, going from a house to a detached garage. It came up into a switch box in the garage, the rest of the wiring in the garage was BX.
Was that what they used for "UF" back 'then', whenever 'then' was?
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Would have been 1920s-1930s most likely
 
synchro said:
It reminds me of when I was a kid our family was in a restaurant named Paul Bunyan when we were on vacation. We noticed there was a plaque under a long glass case that had a saw in it, so we got up from our meal to check out whether it had some historical or other significance. The engraved brass plaque said "Two Man Saw" with the explanation below "Used by two men to saw wood in old days." Well that was a waste of time while our meals were getting cold.
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Was that in Michigan?
 
synchro said:
It reminds me of when I was a kid our family was in a restaurant named Paul Bunyan when we were on vacation. We noticed there was a plaque under a long glass case that had a saw in it, so we got up from our meal to check out whether it had some historical or other significance. The engraved brass plaque said "Two Man Saw" with the explanation below "Used by two men to saw wood in old days." Well that was a waste of time while our meals were getting cold.
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K8MHZ said:
Was that in Michigan?
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It was in Wisconsin. But apparently there are also cities in Maine, Michigan, and Minnesota that claim Paul Bunyan was born there.
 
electrofelon said:
Yeah I have seen that before and always thought it was funny and dumb. another thing though: can we just get the construction specifications out of the code please? Don't we have product standards for that?
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Sometimes rules that cover things that should be in the product (listing) standards are added to the code to drive the product standard to make a change. The opposite happens too, where a change in the product standard drives a change in the code.
 
don_resqcapt19 said:
Sometimes rules that cover things that should be in the product (listing) standards are added to the code to drive the product standard to make a change. The opposite happens too, where a change in the product standard drives a change in the code.
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Yeah and I don't know if I like that. I don't like the idea of the NEC mingling in something like the construction of a panel board that is listed and has a product standard. It's none of their business IMO.
 
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