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Home Depot sells cloth friction tape!!!
Is it a good idea to wrap modern day splices (with wire nuts of course) with the vinyl tape and the friction tape over it?
Or is that overkill?
P.S. I have a couple of those Leviton s.m. outlets. Also the Eagle versions. They're still manufactured...my aunt's apartment has a bunch. Her place needs an entire rewiring, but I'm not going to touch it...it's a job for a real electrician...there are wires crumbling inside the walls.
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regarding sparky's tandem/parallel outlet:
At one time, there were two styles of 110-volt/two-pin plugs. One was the regular parallel blade plug and another called "tandem." The outlet was designed so you could use either type.
Later outlets would use T-shaped holes for the same purpose.
Look at the following pictures in this website and you'll see pictures of the outlets and the tandem plug that would have fit it:
http://home.netcom.com/~wa2ise/power/power.htm
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That "weatherhead", "monkey's fist" or "birdseye" is known as an "A-Head" in old catalogs. Creighton
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Joe Tedesco, NEC Consultant
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Looking for more old electrical equipment, if you have some send me the pictures so I can load it up here.
Joe Tedesco, NEC Consultant
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"Monkey Fist"? "Bird's Eye"? NO. These are called "A-head"s.
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that outlet in the pic above the PB switch, looks like it's installed in the floor, judging from what appears to be years of dirt and other debris in the slots.
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Earlier in this thread, there was a couple of mentions of Trumbell Electric.I believe they made quite a variety of electrical equipment. I suspect a number of you carry keys to locked electrical cabinets. One of them may be labeled TEU which actually originally stood for "Trumbell Electrical Unit"
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