PotusGobbleBottom
Corn Pop was a bad dude.
Not my 1937 houseAny house built before about 1992 is likely to have Al wire in the walls.
Not my 1937 houseAny house built before about 1992 is likely to have Al wire in the walls.
Not even in the range feed? Or to the hvac?Not my 1937 house
Most mobile home wiring is push in outlets and switches without boxes...The first home my wife and I owned was a mobile home. It had aluminum wiring feeding the thing and in the home too from what I can remember.
It burned to the ground taking all of our belongs with it.
I am not a fan of aluminum wiring
All of my homes since then have had copper and if anything wasn't copper I redid it with copper. I hope to not repeat past problems....
So, I was pretty sad with my wiring when I discovered that it looked to be aluminum. It turns out it is 1930's pretinned copper. I found this out after changing some outlets and switches.Not even in the range feed? Or to the hvac?
WTF thats knob and tube that has insulation on it? That was always a NO. Right?Oh, im in an attic right now working on the hvac in a pre 1920 house, and this stuff is all over the place... id love to see how aluminum wiri g looks in a hundred years...
In the old part of Santa Fe nm Ive seen this with porcelain insulators screwed to vigas (round log roof beams) with braided cloth covered wire. This was done when electricity finally got here in the early 1900s. Wires went down to a fist sized rotary switch for the ONE light that was in the house. Crazy but cool.Oh, im in an attic right now working on the hvac in a pre 1920 house, and this stuff is all over the place..
Wasnt it only used because WW2 needed all the copper and drove copper prices sky high?in the era when it was popular.
It was after WW2, in the 60's and 70's.Wasnt it only used because WW2 needed all the copper and drove copper prices sky high?
As I once said in one of my videos, "Some people buy $8 coffee's and some buy copper".
Entrance cable, I might use aluminum. Anything else is copper. Even the plumbing in my house and shop are copper. The airlines in my shop are 1 inch copper.
This is the shop heating system, more copper. I love copper.
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There is some aircraft wire that is silver plated aluminum. I assume that it is used because the Al portion is light and the frequency is often 400 hz, so the silver might be doing most of the load carrying. No personal experience with it.
Put it together myself. Had to replace the boiler a year ago on New Years weekend. Of course everything was backwards for hookups.Nice setup