"Greg" wrote in message
...

I interpret the phrase mechanically and electrically secured to mean you
twist the wires together rather than laying them side by side to solder
them.

Give that man a cigar, we have a winner. That is what they mean. If you
wrap a
stranded around a solid a couple times and solder it you will break the
wire
before the joint fails.

The same is true for a properly installed wire nut without the solder also.

--

Roger Shoaf

About the time I had mastered getting the toothpaste back in the tube, then
they come up with this striped stuff.