Originally posted by MattE:
I've seen some switches wired like this in my house and my house is only 10 yrs old. So it must be standard stuff. I have no idea how u would strip a wire in the middle like that.
1) cut the insulation with your Ideal T-Stripper (or equivalent) for the appropriate conductor size twice on the wire at the center of the "loop" left during conductor pull... just wider than the nose of a set of klein linemans pliers.
2) Use the mini-pliers on the end (or your Kliens if you're my foreman) to pull off the insulation between the cuts in the insulation
3) Loop the conductor around the appropriate terminal.
4) neatly fold conductors into box behind receptacle.
Of course, we usually used solid Cu...
