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    Quote Originally Posted by mike1 View Post
    i thought id post this in a seperate thread to get more ansers on it.

    my uncle rewired the house but im not sure how much of it her rewired and he had some of the white romex i think its called wire nutted onto that old wire is it safe to take it out and just wire nut the two romexes together or will it mess up something that gets power from it? i mean we have a breaker box and i see none of that wire going into it its all new stuff but sone of the wires have to old stuff attached to it. i forgot to add that i also incountered another wire like the one i described but this one had two wires in it with the same casing and it was plastic but the wire had some kind of green oil stuff when i stripped it and it looked to be maybe 12 or 14 gauge wire not sure it went like this outer black casing then paper wraped around the wire casing and then green oil stuff it smelled likee oil maybe to reduce the heat or act as a isulator not sure.

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    For a question like this, you should find a forum full of electricians and or electrial engineers. As an FYI, 12 gauge copper wire is only rated for 20 amps.
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    Quote Originally Posted by mthomasdev View Post
    As an FYI, 12 gauge copper wire is only rated for 20 amps.
    True, but even 20a can kill you. Anything over an amp can technically kill you(it's something like 15ma can stop the average human heart and most defibs are rated at a max of 50ma).

    -Matt

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