On Feb 7, 1:02�pm, wrote:
On Thu, 7 Feb 2008 09:47:45 -0800 (PST), "





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On Feb 7, 11:46?am, wrote:
On Thu, 07 Feb 2008 10:34:12 -0600, bud--
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it would be interesting to try to hire the electricians here to
inspect K&T.

exactly how does someone inspect something they cant see?

All connections in properly installed K&T are accessible.

just how, have you ever wqorked on or around K&T apparently not
because connections were generally made in walls and latheand
plastered
over. no boxes at connections in most cases.........

and before you claim i dont know, do note one of the posters
troubleshooting this problem reported making a buch of holes in walls
looking for a bad connection.

I did say "properly installed" knob and tube wiring. �

I had a beach house with "properly installed" knob and tube wiring and
all connections were easily accessible.

Why would you have ANY connections inside a sealed wall unless they
were at the site of an outlet? Are you some sort of hack who splices
together short lengths of scrap wire to save a small amount of money
on materials while wasting an enormous amount of money on labor to do
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I have seen homes wired with K&T where connections were some distance
from lights and outlets. fact is to provide spacing K&T uses they cant
be right together, their typical distance must be 6 inches.

so the wires to the device are soldered on near a knob, but no easy
way to see the solder job.......

my house is mostly BX it was built in 1950. in the middle of the night
i turned the light on to find my lost pillow and got a shower of
sparks from the fixture right on the bed. scared me a lot.

upon disection found the insulation to the light socket failed
touching a grounded fixture.

needless to say all those fixtures were replaced, this about 10 years
ago.