Here's my problem, we've found in the code that we need a bushing on installations with conductors #4 AWG and larger so now your asking me to selectively enforce the code because your job appearently went in without damaging the conductors. You've already said that from now on you'll use bushings. I'm glad the inspector was a fair individual and I will be the first to admit that inspectors are somewhat like people. They are all different, we'll leave it at that. So now I approve your job because the conductors were not damaged and your competition learns about this and I ask your competition to install bushings and he says "You didn't make Reel-Break install bushings, how come I have too?" As inspectors we have to be consistent or we're doomed as inspectors. We may be consistently wrong, but we're consistent. Put the bushings in gentlemen, don't ask me to break the law.
