"Tom Horne" wrote in message
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crimps that are suitable for making aluminum to copper splices.

Our local power company uses a special crimp connecter to connect their
aluminum drop to our copper lines. It seems as if every 4 or 5 years they
lose their conductivity and have to be replaced and on one occasion the
connection even burned apart. I usually notice the problem when I hear a
sizzling static sound in my short-wave radio.
Think I would do as one poster suggested, check the smoke alarms. RM~