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Really Cool Vintage Wirenuts Unlike modern wirenuts, these are two-piece and have a metal tube with a terminal screw. You stick the wires in and tighten the screw and then screw the bakelite cap/cover on over the metal tube. There are two different sizes here. Keywords: Miscellaneous

Really Cool Vintage Wirenuts

Unlike modern wirenuts, these are two-piece and have a metal tube with a terminal screw. You stick the wires in and tighten the screw and then screw the bakelite cap/cover on over the metal tube. There are two different sizes here.

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Filename:012415_031.JPG
Album name:Mike / My Collection
Keywords:Miscellaneous
Filesize:235 KiB
Date added:Jan 25, 2015
Dimensions:2048 x 1536 pixels
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DateTime Original:2009:03:27 02:38:44
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Focal length:28.8125 mm
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Make:Vivicam
Model:V5024
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GEsoftwhite100watts   [Jan 25, 2015 at 11:05 PM]
Cool, never heard of these before! Kinda like a cross between a lug and a standard wirenut!
streetlight98   [Jan 25, 2015 at 11:55 PM]
Yeah they're really cool! I'll probably use them inside my fluorescent fixtures to connect the cords, in place of traditional wire nuts.
joe_347V   [Aug 01, 2015 at 05:33 AM]
They still sell these here. A bit expensive but I used them when I replaced the cord in my Benjamin industrial to get that vintage look lol.
streetlight98   [Aug 01, 2015 at 11:36 AM]
Oh wow that's cool. Wow that's a little steep. The same $1.99 price for regular wirenuts would probably get you about 50 of them lol.
xmaslightguy   [Aug 02, 2015 at 02:20 AM]
I had got some 1xF40 preheat striplights a number of years ago...some of them had similar wirenuts in them...ofcourse those were exchanged for standard wirenuts when I replaced the cords.
streetlight98   [Aug 02, 2015 at 02:42 PM]
Ah you didn't keep the old wirenuts? I don't normally keep old wirenuts either, but if they used this style I'd probably keep them.
xmaslightguy   [Aug 02, 2015 at 03:17 PM]
No, when I replaced the rotted out power cords, my only thought with the wire-nuts was something like "these are weird" rather than "I should keep these vintage things"

Technically I probably still have them......if laying around the yard somewhere counts
joe_347V   [Aug 03, 2015 at 05:40 AM]
Yeah, I think it's kinda neat that they still make them but at that price I can only afford to use them in more special lights lol. My Ornamental Eaglelux was also originally wired up with this style wirenuts. I replaced them with a modern terminal block during last year's restoration.

As for reusing wirenuts, I toss older wirenuts or ones where the wire snapped off inside but I generally reuse newer wirenuts.

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