Re: Wire prices

["Crash Gordon" <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yah ground a metal cover might make sense. But grounding a plastic box when
the installed device is already grounded does not.


"alarman" <alarman2000@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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| "Crash Gordon" <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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| >I never disbelieved you....and I still think it's dee dee dee. The device
| >in
| > the box is already grounded  by the ground in the romex, to ground a
| > non-conducting plastic box is wacko....like grounding the wooden stud
it's
| > nailed to would be.
|
| One reason I can see to use a grounding screw in a plastic box would be if
| the ground screw was bonded to a tapped metal hole meant to secure the
| device or metal blank to be attached to the box. The Carlon 4-0 boxes I
have
| are made that way.
| js
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