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: Most folks dont solder well....
== Right, and that's exactly why many codes won't accept
soldering. That, and burning the house down in the process g I
suppose.

also solder expands and contracts with
: heating and cooling of electrical joints...soldered joints can
: eventually loosen...as all electrical joints can...but a
wirenut or a
: mechanical connection can be retightened easier than
resoldering.

== Actually, no, that's not an issue. As long as it's a properly
soldered/cleaned joint expansion/contraction is a zero issue with
solder. It's not hard to learn and takes no longer to solder
than to twist on nuts without solder. Strip,Solder, screw, pack
& go.
The actual downside of soldered joints is learning you need
extra slack in the event of future changes.
When I lived in Chgo (Cook County) I managed to get my hands
on several reels of ten gauge stranded )THHN? not sure; it came
from a factory demise) wire (forget whethe it was 7 or 12 strands
now) and when I rewired the house I wanted to use it. They not
only let me use it, they let me solder it and cap it with
wirenuts and tape. The only caveat was I had to leave ALL
junction boxes available and be prepared to open up to 25% of
them for closer inspection, so I didn't tape until after the
inspector left. He opened 5 connections in three boxes in the
basement and then just inspected the verticals conduits for radii
and tightness, and I was done. Took about half an hour for the
whole house inspection. The inspector giggled when he found my
neatly arrayed bank of 15 Amp ckt breakers all neatly arranged in
one area of the box; said it was the neatest job he'd ever seen.
It was: It was my first whole-house rewire, my own house, and I
wanted to pass inspection! No cut corners there!

Just my 2 cents

Pop
:
: Look...if you use wirenuts...twist em up good and tight and use
the
: wirenut to insulate the connection..tape it well....you will be
all
: set...
:
: I dont like crimp connectors on solid wires ... Ive used the
ones for
: grounds....but only apply them after twisting the ground
together
: well... Dont like them on current carrying conductors as most
folks
: dont use the proper tool to crimp them down or they dont crimp
them
: well. I run onto a lot of crimped connections that are on solid
wire
: and they are almost always loose crimps.
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