Originally Posted By: kbernard
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Have not seen this yet…I think it is tin wiring, sorry no pic today. Anybody have any thoughts on tin wiring? It is located in the main panel.
Kelly
Have not seen this yet…I think it is tin wiring, sorry no pic today. Anybody have any thoughts on tin wiring? It is located in the main panel.
Kelly
Originally Posted By: mboyett
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Without a photo not much to go on to help you with. Try this:
http://www.nachi.org/bbsystem/viewtopic.php?t=9069&highlight=tin
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Mike Boyett
Capital City Inspections
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Originally Posted By: Greg Fretwell
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I suspect you mean “tinned” and that is really a thin coating of lead and tin (solder) over copper. This was common back in the olden days when electricians carried a soldering iron. It makes soldering easier. This is very common in the electronics industry today when they plan on soldering. It does not change the ampacity rules.
Originally Posted By: Joey D’Adamo
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Tinned copper wire is fine. My new apartment has a bit of tinned copper in it on one circuit. Although it appears most of the wiring was replaced a few years ago. Not sure why they left that one circuit with the tinned copper (as it’s all run through conduit), but I’m not too worried about it.
Now my old apartment with aluminum wire used to keep me up at night.
Originally Posted By: gbeaumont
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Hi to all,
here's a realy good pic of tinned wire, look carefully at the ends you can see the copper.
Picture stolen from Richard Moore.
Regards
Gerry
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