Wire nuts

[Stinky The Clown]

I had to get a new smoke detector installed in a house I own. It was built in 1941. When I went to hard wire the detector, I found the job more than I wished to undertake, so I called in my trusty electrician.

In the course of doing the work, he handed me a wire nut he'd removed.

It was ceramic! I'd never seen one. Never knew they existed, to be honest.

A ceramic wire nut. I'll be damned!



(In looking on "The Google" for an image, it seems they still make them ...... for high temperature applications.)

[Warpy]

1. Plastic wirenuts would get cooked and possibly fail

in a situation where you'd really need that smoke alarm.

You bet they make them. I've seen them at the big box stores.

[Wash. state Desk Jet]

2. Ya, those are kind of cool!

All the old stoves had those too! Before those tape was used ,connections were soldered. My grand dad was electrican ,so was my dad, grand dad was a cigar roller before he became a electrican at the turn of the twentieth century 1902. The inspectors liked to view his connections ,because those connections were unique! Cool stuff hua!

[yy4me]

3. Good grief, what I learn on this board is amazing. I've seen

these and had no idea what they were. What is the inside like, the modern threaded thingy?

[Stinky The Clown]

4. Yup ..... the threads are simply a molded part of the wire nut

[Gold Metal Flake]

5. I think I have some somewhere.

I also have ceramic pushbutton light switches with mother of pearl inlay and brass cover. One new in the box. Stuff left over from my antique radio collecting days. Fun to look at.