Wireway tap connectors

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ericsherman37 said:
My boss is from the stone age and keeps telling us to quit buying Polaris connectors because they're too expensive.

We always argue the point and tell him that split bolts + tape take three times as long to install. Not to mention the spectre of having to take them back apart to do something else with it.

I don't understand why he doesn't understand.
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Nice. maybe we worked for the same shmuck. :smile:

Split bolt and mastic tape then electrical tape.
 
Pierre C Belarge said:
I can remember learning from the oldtimers how to tape a 'bug'. There is an artform with the oldtimers. Then taking them apart was the real fun.
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Yeah, that and the artform of not grounding anything. The guy who wired my house (before I lived in it) ran regular old Romex with an EGC to everything, and then just stuffed all the grounds in the back of the boxes. No terminations on devices, light fixtures, heaters, anything. He was a near-retired electrician who "didn't believe in grounding."

The funny thing is, I went in with my journeyman last year sometime to troubleshoot some work the guy did not too terribly long ago and found an energized ceiling T-grid (the hard way of course). It was in a doctor's office of all places. Lax inspecting, I guess.
 
ericsherman37 said:
Yeah, that and the artform of not grounding anything. The guy who wired my house (before I lived in it) ran regular old Romex with an EGC to everything, and then just stuffed all the grounds in the back of the boxes. No terminations on devices, light fixtures, heaters, anything. He was a near-retired electrician who "didn't believe in grounding."

The funny thing is, I went in with my journeyman last year sometime to troubleshoot some work the guy did not too terribly long ago and found an energized ceiling T-grid (the hard way of course). It was in a doctor's office of all places. Lax inspecting, I guess.
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Was this in Bayonne, New Jersey, by any chance?

Had an old-timer who knew nothing about grounding or a safe installation.
 
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