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Old 09-13-16, 07:34 PM   #25
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Originally Posted by oil pan 4 View Post
I was doing some clean up after doing some electrical so I plugged in my big shop vac to a receptacle that I had just finished working on but had not stuffed back inside the wall.
Here is what the 14 gauge wires looked like after running the shop vac for about 5 minutes.



Some heating of the wires is to be expected.

Curious that the weak point is the connector (plug).

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