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Smitty Two

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(Doug Miller) wrote:

In article
, Smitty
Two wrote:
In article ,
(Doug Miller) wrote:

In article
,
Smitty
Two wrote:

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.

Please stop giving electrical advice.

No. You want to give code advice, fine. I'll give common sense advice
all I want.

You haven't given any common sense advice yet -- dangerous practices that
violate the Code are *not* common sense.

Yeah, I know you're a code junkie, Doug. And I respect your knowledge
and your professionalism. And I understand the reason for the code. And
I realize that a hidden, inaccessible splice is a violation of the NEC.

Now, when was the last time you drove one or more miles per hour over
the speed limit? How could you possibly put your own life, and the lives
of your family, and the lives of children and other innocent strangers,
in such grave danger, by willfully violating a law that is designed to
protect us all from tragedies great and small?

If you think that a *properly soldered and shrink-wrapped* splice in a
wire in a conduit as described by the OP constitutes a *danger*, then
you and I define the word differently. I think the dictionary is on my
side, though.