On Sun, 13 Sep 2009 00:33:44 -0400, aemeijers
wrote:

David Nebenzahl wrote:
On 9/12/2009 8:07 AM aemeijers spake thus:

Read it again, where he said 'commercial' use. Like on a construction
site or a production floor or in an office. All places where I have
seen plenty of hillbilly homemade cords. (Romex strung between trees,
with non-weatherproof metal box and a duplex outlet on the end,
without even a plate cover, anyone?)

I represent those remarks. One of my favorite extension cords is just
such a "hillbilly" job; a medium length of SJ or some such
round-jacketed cord, a round 3-prong hardware store plug on one end and
a handy box with a duplex outlet on the other. Been using it for, oh, 25
years or so now.

Mine, however, always has a cover plate on it.


Yours sounds safe to me, lack of UL sticker non-withstanding. The
example I cited I remember from my youth on a residential site. The
temporary service pole and meter was out by the road, because the REMC
had not set the extra pole for the back of the lot yet. One end of the
romex was coming out of the open lid of the disconnect box (that I was
scared to touch), and the cable was strung through trees high enough to
drive a pickup truck under it. At the final tree, a single-gang bang box
was clamped to the romex, and a tired duplex outlet was installed. From
the kinks in the sheathing on the romex, and the weather stains, this
was not the first site it had been used at.

NMW14, I hope, and not NMD