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Originally Posted by Thehobe1
It looks to me like the strands from one of the connecting wires was not originally held within the "spring" that is meant to apply pressure between the wires being connected. WOW, electrician 101! Is this the case; I can't quite see it in the picture.
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The connection is stranded to solid core. A close inspection, not visible in the picture, showed the stranded wire to have only had the insulation stripped off by about 1/8” and the solid core about 1”, not conducive to make a good connection in the wire nut. The only thing holding the connection together was the foot long piece of electric tape wrapped around the wires and wire nut! Suprized the connection didn’t fail sooner.
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