I'm still not really comfortable with the aluminum wire industry statements about not needing antiox for connections in dry locations with the current aluminum cables.
Seems like this is always the kind of thing that years later, the industry will announce that there is a problem with installations done this way in the past.
They do say to use antiox where moisture is present though, like outdoors in a meter enclosure.
I personally use it one every connection regardless, along with a torque wrench, but they also warn not to wire brush the cables as we used to years ago.
I still find occasional use for a wire brush though on older OH service drops, direct burial cable repairs and old SE cables used for branch circuits when doing panel changes.
