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Greg,
I remember that old silver asphalt wire from years ago. They use to use it all around this area in the 60's. I believe it also had a smaller grounding wire in it too.
When they use to make AL wires, they use to have black insulation on that wire.
Lastly, once when I first started in business, I found a job where the HO did all of his own wiring. I think I saw every kind of wire connecting everything together, Black wire, asphalt, zip cord, AC, extension cord wiring, etc. Plus that was just in one room behind the dry wall! I told the GC of the job that I couldn't guarantee any wiring unless the drywall was removed. So he had to remove most of it in order to be sure that the wiring was safe.
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sadly, that's been my existence for 1/4 century Harold imho, Rod Sterling could have written an episode on it... the strange phenomenon of a garden varity electrician, trapped in a mobius logic strip of vintage wiring, unable to escape the daily explanations of it.........~S~
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My childhood home (brand-new in 1967) was wired with that silver-asphalt "Romex" from top to bottom in Fayetteville, NC. Although I was only seven years old, I remember it well. Even the 6/3 for the range had this same form of jacket (no ground wire of course). I was just a very inquisitive kid, what can I say?
My parent's house in Virginia that was built in 1974 still had some 4/3 SEU cable feeding the furnace that had a similar jacket. The second 4/3 circuit was "that modern stuff". Wow, two 70 amp copper circuits feeding a straight-electric forced air furnace. Can you imagine that these days?
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YMMV with ground wires in the paper Romex. This house (SW Fl) has the smaller ground (1963) and the house I grew up in (DC area) had the same reduced ground in paper RX built in 1953. It was only connected to the box. NEMA 1-15 receptacles throughout. If you plugged in the 5-15 adapter and hooked up the ground wire you did have a ground.
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that makes me wonder, is there any sort of 'history of wire' (for lack of better terminology) that would forward details .....?
~S~
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Sounds like something Mike Holt may have.
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They even have Joe's "original NEC" on that page. It looks reasonable. I know they were using grounded RX in DC in 54 as the article says.
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Talk about a trip down memory lane...Joe T...Dave S (aka 'Davie' and a few other handles. Only place I read Dave S is his monthly resi articles in EC Mag.
Joe T., where are you??
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