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amdx[_3_]

On 7/20/2014 3:51 PM, wrote:
On Friday, July 18, 2014 9:07:36 PM UTC-4, jon_banquer wrote:
On Friday, July 18, 2014 12:54:43 PM UTC-7, Gunner Asch wrote:

"Whats wrong with plastic boxes..both the gray type and the Carlon

type?"

For starters when plastic boxes crack you have to remove the sheet rock around them to replace them. Metal boxes don't crack like plastic ones do. If you strip the thread in a metal box you can retread it without having to remove it. If you are in it for the long run plastic boxes aren't the way to go.

I seriously doubt Mark Wieber is capable of doing any kind of quality work.

Clearly absolutely NO BODY on this particular thread is a licensed electrician. Then again, I guess no one claimed it.

Rodents can chew through everything. Even metal. So plastic that was fitted with the fried chicken greasy hands he just finished using from lunchtime will attract rodents after finished work who can motor through it.

Rodents hurt their gums when they try to chew through sheet metal studs and pot metal couplings, end caps, connectors, boxes, etc.

And yes, everything should be grounded. That reduces a person own potential to be hit with electrocution of 5 millivolts or more. The less use of non-metallic non-conductor, the better.

Hmm... If you have rubber sole shoes the all metal boxes and metal
conduit could be what kills you. if you touch the grounded light
fixture, the electrical box or the conduit while you are in contact with
the hot wire, it could kill you. If it was all plastic and you touched
it while in contact with the hot wire, you probably wouldn't even feel it.

Mikek