What is a hickey

[AK GUY]

Anyone know what a hickey is as used in Art 314.16(B)(3)?

 

[cadpoint]

It's usually a large bolt or fastener, internal in a box but might also interface with the old device it'a serving. For example a bolt through interlocked piece that fastens the box and holds the light beyond as well.

It's old school stuff not many box's come with hickey's today, I think the closet things today is, cut in boxes have that have a metal tab with a bolt to hold the circuit.

 

[tryinghard]

Its a red mark usually on one's neck

Actually its a conduit hand bender, really short shoe for RMC

 

[infinity]

That article refers to what's called a fixture hickey and is used to mount fixtures to the threaded stud in the back of the box.

 

[augie47]

Ther hickey referenced in Art 314 is described here:
http://www.essortment.com/home-improvement-using-hickey-secure-heavy-ceiling-fixtures-12491.html

Hickey benders are pictured here:
http://www.bontool.com/product1.asp?P=HICKEYBENDER

I vaguely recall neck hickeys but haven't seen one in decades.

 

[Dennis Alwon]

I call this a hickey

 

[realolman]

thanks for posting that... I have often wondered myself what the heck a hickey was.:dunce:

I also often thought that more of the terms used in the NEC should be defined in the definitions

 

[Dennis Alwon]

We also call a rigid hand bender a hickey but that is clearly not what was being discussed. I think a hickey may also refer to lots of fixture parts.

Remember the crows foot. Some would call this a hickey also

 

[luckylerado]

Grounds for divorce.

 

[Sierrasparky]

I call this a hickey

yup that's a hickey. They come in different thread sizes , some really beefy cast iron. These are the proper devices to hang those heavy fixtures with , not the rube goldberg stuff I see lately. I carry them on the truck too!:thumbsup: