"Smitty Two" wrote in message
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In article , "RBM"
wrote:

In all manner of things, how many people think they know how,
and don't.

Most. People are idiots, by and large. But it isn't up to me to judge
the skills of the OP. And if he misjudges his own skills, so what?
Freedom includes the freedom to shoot yourself in the foot.

All these damn rules and regulations about every tiny little thing that
might cause someone to stub their toe, annoy me. And people that are
terrified to break one of them now and again because they think they can
imagine some absolutely astronomical possibility that some catastrophe
could result, annoy me even more. Kill your family, someone postulated?
Sheesh. Better not let your wife change a light bulb, or operate a steak
knife.

So y'all can go out there and fill up your fat arteries with your
mcdonalds crap and drive five feet off the next guy's bumper at 80 miles
an hour and then go home and pray to the NEC god all ya want.

I mostly agree with what you are saying. I think the OP however, is trying
to do the right thing as correctly as possible, which is why he asked the
question. I am not fond of our nanny society where everything has to be
built to protect us from ourselves, but imo, backed up by many years of
practical experience, the most practical, common sense solution, is to get a
longer piece of wire, then nobody has to be concerned about it's integrity
down the road