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Default splice underground romex


"Bill Marrs" wrote in message
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"Karl Townsend" wrote in message
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I sent the wife on a snipe hunt yesterday. She came home with the wrong
thing.

I need to splice underground romex 12-3 with ground. Four wires. I
remember a kit that had four brass tubes with set screws in a insulating
holder with a large gel filled heat shrink tube.
Karl



????????? Is this it? 4 wire setscrew plastic sleeve, big ugly chunk of
shrink tube.

http://solutions.3m.com/wps/portal/3...4 97Q9CJ8SQgl

Product description---

The Splice Kit UF consists of a connector-insulation assembly and a heat
shrink tube. The connector assembly contains four cylindrical set screw
connectors separated by a piece of vinyl insulation. The heat shrink tube is
a heavy-wall, adhesive-lined tube. Underground Feeder (UF)-B cables are
flat, and typically have three solid conductors without ground or two solid
conductors with a ground. They range in size from 8 AWG to 14 AWG. The most
common UF cable size is 10-14 AWG. The 3M Splice Kit UF is offered in two
versions: UF1 Standard Kit includes a 1.8" length terminal connector and an
8" length of heavy-wall, adhesive-lined heat shrink tube. UF2 Stretcher Kit
has an 11.7 inch terminal connector and a 20 inch length of heavy-wall,
adhesive-lined heat shrink tube. The Standard Kit is used in most of the
applications. The Stretcher Kit is used in situations where a 7-10 inch
section of the cable has been damaged or destroyed. It eliminates two
connectors and a short piece of cable during repair.