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Re: How likely am i to be able to pull electrical wire?

Subject: Re: How likely am i to be able to pull electrical wire?
From: "E. John Puckett" <ejpuckett@centurytel.net>
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 09:47:14 -0500
In addition to all the other items mentioned, are you sure it doesn't go 
through a junction box along the way that may have a loose wire nut?

jamesf@groupwbench.org wrote:
>> I've got a piece of romex cable in a wall that's failed.  (open hot.).
>>  It's about six or eight feet worth, in an exterior wall.  It runs
>> about six or eight feet from one duplex outlet to another, with one 90
>> degree corner It's conceivable that the wire does something nuts, like
>> go up to the header and then across, I think it runs straight
>> horizontally.  How likely am I to be able to be able to pull a
>> replacement, without performing surgery on the drywall?
>>     
>
> Pretty unlikely. I've had walls to the bare framing and it was all I could
> do to get the cable through the 3 2x4s that usually make up a corner. You
> will expend far less energy cutting out the drywall and replacing it.
>
> Besides, wire doesn't fail by itself, it'd help you sleep easier if you
> figure out why it broke. Have you tested the wire itself, and not just the
> outlet? Old outlets that use the spring-loaded wire holders instead of the
> screws on the side lose their spring and the wires loosen up. If you're
> lucky all it does is make the lights flicker.
>
> jim
>
>   

-- 
 John
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