On 5/31/2010 1:50 PM J Burns spake thus:

I've seen old houses where all circuits enter the breaker box as cables,
but some rooms still have knob-and-tube wiring. (A homeowner who needed
to upgrade wiring for his kitchen may have found the old wiring adequate
in a bedroom.)

That leads to a question that didn't occur to me before. Was there a
proper way to connect K & T to a cable?

There was, and I *think*(TM)(R) it simply involved making splices using
approved methods (like Western Union splices) and covering them with
insulating tape. I don't think such connections had to be inside a
junction box, as they would today.

But I could be wrong.


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