Re: Pro 1....oh brother !

["Robert L Bass" <Sales@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"JoeRaisin" wrote:
>
> That's how we do it.  It does a little practice and, being left handed, I
> had to learn to write the label starting with the last letter and working my
> way back to avoid smearing.

Funny.  Being left-handed, that's how I did it, too.

> In cold weather, (I'm in Michigan) you gotta give it extra time to dry
> before you start messing with it.

Michigan isn't clod.  It's f-f-f-friggin' f-f-freezing!

> Granted, sometimes they can be hard to read but we've pretty much
> discontinued the use of contractions at least on prewires so if the label
> does get partially smeared, the next guy has more letters with which to work
> out what the label was.

I can write pretty neatly even on the jacket of 22/4 so that wasn't a problem.
When pulling wire for a switch I'd write on the cable about 2' from the start,
wait a few seconds and shove run it through.  We always hung the empty cabinet
during the prewire.  After all the cables were done, I'd pull all the wires
into the  cabinet, trim them to the proper length and re-write the labels a
few inches from where the jacket would later be stripped.  This made wiring up
the board neat and easy later when finishing the job.

BTW, you know how most guys leave a service loop of extra cable in the wall
behind any device?  We did that and also left a loop in the entire bundle in
the joists above the panel.  It saved a lot of splicing if I ever needed to
make adjustments but the wiring inside the panel stayed neat with squared
turns, etc.

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Regards,
Robert L Bass

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