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#166743 07/27/07 03:21 PM
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Customer lost most of the power on the second floor. Customer had covered the rafters in the attic with 3/4" particle board. Circa 1920's house.

House had been wired in stages - knob & tube, later grey fabric romex (no ground), still later white romex with small ground. Tracer went crazy trying to trace which 4x8 sheet to lift up - finally found this jbox (5 others found - buried under pink stuff and cellulose) - under 7th sheet - fortunately they were all screwed down!

I was taught to twist wires together, making them mechanically sound, and regard the wire nut as a secured insulator - it appeared that these wires were just stuffed in and twisted.......

New run to basement panel.

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An excellent picture.
Looks as if there was plenty of heating that could have very well resulted in a fire. The metal box did well in containing any arcing and heat. But knowing that it wasn't grounded there was no way that a breaker would have been tripped unless there was a massive line to line fault.

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Whats that loose screw doing in there?

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Don't know about the loose screw - that's the way I found it....... box was held in place with 2 sheetrock screws - obviously postdated the fabric romex.
wonder when sheetrock screws came into play?


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