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i should think 400.8 would come into play using a cord that way.

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All the conductors in the octagon box are in parallel and feed the light and the "extension cord" stuff goes on to feed a fluorescent light suspended in the ceiling tile grid.

The blue coloured romex is part of the original wiring in the house. All of the original NM is blue like the one you see and it is still in surprisingly good shape and is not very brittle at all yet. This stuff was pretty common around the Edmonton, Alberta area in 1978 when I was still in the trade full time.

And yes, the whole bit of this "innovative" wiring has been removed and replaced with nice shiny new NMD 90. It's getting a bit monotonous checking things out around our house, because I found about 5 more code violations including bare conductors in the attic on some more of the cord going into the living area to feed the china cabinet lights. Someone stripped the cover off the romex and soldered the cord conductors to the romex conductors and just left it laying there on top of the insulation in the attic. That got replaced RIGHT away.

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Ahh ya, that old romex! that stuff is messy as heck to work with as well..
I have seen that stuff all over here in my city, and the last I saw it installed
was in the late 70's or early 80's when me 'pops wired up the basement.. Have seen it in almost every colour too, I don't know the reason, probably different manufacturers, but shiny silver, dull grey, black, blue, green, brown and orange were common, and I have seen it in both copper and aluminum conductor... ( gotta love the 70's eh)!!

Oh yeah, gotta love the use of the cord!
Full marks for the person spending the coin using what looks like "SO" cabtire and not sacraficing a dollar store extension cord! [Linked Image]


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