"Smitty Two" wrote in message
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On Sat, 27 Jun 2009 13:31:18 -0400, "RBM" wrote:


"Smitty Two" wrote in message
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If a person wily nilly makes splices in inaccessible locations,
where they're illegal as per code, who would even think to look
there.

If there's no continuity from one end of the cable to the other, then
there's a break somewhere in between. Anyone would think to look
there.
A well-made splice in the situation the OP describes is never going
to
fail, anyway. And if it does, the length of wire is readily pulled
and
replaced. Illegal? Sure. So what, says I. If you understand the
reason
for the code, you understand under what circumstances you can ignore
it,
particularly in your own home.



You are demonstrating your inexperience in your statement. For one
thing
"your own home" becomes someone else's home at some point. True, one
can
determine that the conductor is shorted or open, but when things are
not


You should be able to do what you want in YOUR home. After all, it
would be YOUR family and YOUR friends that could be killed.

Again, the reason we have building codes, electrical codes, life safety
codes etc., is because Your home will at some point be someone else's
home,
someone who has no idea what ass backwards , possibly dangerous
installations you made, when it was your home. Not to mention that it is
against the law to kill your own family



Good grief. I knew I was going to get some **** about this, but a well
soldered and insulated splice in a spacious conduit with wide sweeping
turns is hardly dangerous, the damn code be damned. There's about a one
in ten billion chance it will go short or open in the lifetime of the
house, and if it does either, it's STILL not dangerous or difficult to
diagnose or repair. If the retired homeowner on a fixed income wants to
save a few bucks on wire, let him splice the **** if he knows how.
Millions of people survived the advent of electricity before there were
all these laws to protect us from ourselves.


I'm not saying that splicing the wire in the conduit is dangerous, just that
it may become a nuisance to someone in the future. I probably costs less in
the long run to do things properly. You say, "let him splice the **** if he
knows how". In all manner of things, how many people think they know how,
and don't.