> On Sep 18, 2022, at 20:23, Jeff Scarbrough <fishplate@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I remember studying the National Electric Code (wow - 35 years ago
> now!) and seeing the mention of hickeys when calculating box capacity.
> I never was really sure what one was, but we never got tested on
> it...now I know for sure.
>
In the dark ages, electrical boxes for luminaires didnâ??t have tabs with
screws to attach thé luminaire to. You attached the hickey to the threads of
the pipe bringing the wires in, and then attached a threaded nipple to the
hickey. You could either attach the luminaire to the nipple, or thread a cross
bar onto the nipple, and use the mounting holes on that. Cross bars still have
the threaded hole in the middle.
This was a side effect of running wires in repurposed gas pipe. Our old coop
was built with gas lights (and electricity, but people were not convinced it
wasnâ??t a fad. ). The gas lights were removed, and reused as conduit for new
electric lights. In an act of supreme brilliance, the gas connection was not
disconnected, just valves off, and the valves locked closed with pad locks. A
few years before I moved in, one of my neighbors smelled gas, and called the
gas company. Gas company tested for leaks, and couldnâ??t find it with their
magic wand. The guy could smell it, though, and traced it to their dining room
chandelier. The valve had started leaking through. The pipes were cut and
capped just past the valves.
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