- 1. Unravelling old BX cable? (score: 1)
- Author: Jim Franklin <jamesf@groupwbench.org>
- Date: Sun, 05 Feb 2006 11:20:44 -0500
- Installing a ceiling fan in place of a light fixture, I moved the cloth-covered leads too much and one shorted against the armoring. I guess they didn't have anti-short bushings in 1926. I need to un
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- 2. Re: Unravelling old BX cable? (score: 1)
- Author: "Steve Hammatt" <gsteve@hammatt.com>
- Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2006 09:00:25 -0800
- I may be wrong on this, but I'm thinking that you'd 'bend' the armor in a curve, then take a hacksaw and cut thru one link, bend further and then snip the remainder clean. Steve
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- 3. Re: Unravelling old BX cable? (score: 1)
- Author: Jim Franklin <jamesf@groupwbench.org>
- Date: Sun, 05 Feb 2006 12:07:10 -0500
- You're correct, but I should have been clearer. The cable is barely protruding from the ceiling, in the recess left by the old box I took out. So there's no room for a hacksaw. There's room for a Dre
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