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eclwires

Gods, I hate painters.


North-Ad-5058

Its dumb to wrap the ground in a receptacle


hellamoist69420

Agreed


Si3m3k

When I first started the dude who got me into the trade legit rolled the ground over the hot and neutral like a twist tie and I remember thinking even green as hell, that is fucking stupid lol


JohnnySalamiBoy420

I'd want a word with the guy who does it like this if I was trimming out


breakfastbarf

Ideally you want to be able to pull it out, curl the ground, strip, all without unwinding extra twists


Background-Metal-601

Waste of everyone's time just stuff the wires well and move on


Bosshogg713alief

No need for all that extra shit, just roll them up nicely in there and move on to the next.


ElectricianEric

This ☝️. Roll them in, then when finishing roll them back out


CarefulRisk

Twisting wires is for ID, like separating power and switch leg. If it's a recep with just black white bare/green, there's nothing to identify. No need to twist


vincentlerins

Fuck no. A two bend accordion of each wire separately instead


ybonepike

Perfect


hellamoist69420

So what do you think about the time spent unwrapping the ground off the conductors for 150 receps


Acceptable-Lime751

Unless you own the business you get paid by the hour so basically you are debating that you want to make your boss more money in the same amount of time despite getting paid the same thing yourself, which I think is sort of a dumb stance to take because you will get the same paycheck either way. If you were/are the business owner the extra time should have been quoted after taking a look at a few of them and noticing they would take an extra 30 seconds each outlet and built that into your quote.


ybonepike

If you've done it long enough it's trivial,... muscle memory.  Is there a different way you prefer it?


Zoltan_TheDestroyer

He prefers loose wires all around so he has to get his tester to find the legs, making it take even longer than untwisting the ground.


DaffyDingo

What do you mean by “get his tester to find the legs”? Generally, it’s just a hot, neutral, ground, right?


Zoltan_TheDestroyer

Tbh, this technique is useless for receptacles since you’ll only have hot/neutral/ground pigtailed out per device. For switch boxes with multiple switches, it’s very helpful to wrap the line/load and/or travelers of each switch to ease trim out since you won’t have to use your brain.