On Mon 16 Mar 2009 12:36:28p, told us...

On Mon, 16 Mar 2009 12:02:37 GMT, Wayne Boatwright
wrote:

On Sun 15 Mar 2009 09:50:41p, John Keiser told us...

I live a few hundred yards from the ocean in Hawaii. My back-stabbed
connections worked fine for 25 years. But then a bit of corrosion got
the best of them and I've been rewiring as needed to use the screws.
Time will tell in Berkely/Oakland.

We have a "custom designed" manufactured home. When I opened an
existing socket box to extend it to a new box on the wall behind it, I
was happily surprised that screw terminal connections were used. Out of
curiosity, I check numerous junction boxes and all were screw terminal
connections. I have nothing aginst the back-stab sockets and switches,
but have found a wide range of quality in these products. The better
quality units probably provide better connectivity with their back-stab
hardware.
No such thing as high quality back-stab.


Your opinion, of course. If you compare different brands, or even
different price points within the same brand, the back-stab mechanisms are
clearly different, and the more expensive ones are obviously more robust in
design.

--
Wayne Boatwright

"One man's meat is another man's poison"
- Oswald Dykes, English writer, 1709.