On Thu, 13 Jul 2017 13:17:24 -0700 (PDT), TimR
wrote:

On Thursday, July 13, 2017 at 2:14:08 PM UTC-4, sparky wrote:
replying to sym, sparky wrote:
Bad idea sym. NEC does not allow the use of both screws and the back push
holes on the same outlet.


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You replied to a 10 year old post.

His house long ago burned down.



.... and gave a bad answer to boot. The NEC is silent on the issue and
U/L simply said the use had not be evaluated (as of the white book a
few cycles ago. I have not looked recently)
I would really be more concerned about box fill because this usually
indicated an extra cable was added.