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Originally Posted by thecatsandi
Did you put in standard house recepticals? That leaves exposed 120V in the wall. Dangerous.
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Michelle, good point. I haven't done anything except replace the one cover plate. With the one piece receptacles, just thinking.
To replace them with standard receptacles, even back wired with the receptacle wrapped in electrical tape, not a good idea since they don't reside in a box (tape will eventually fall off and hot wire could arc to aluminum). I'll have to look at these one piece receptacles and see how they are made and if there's some alternative that will allow me to use metal plates. One would be to use a shallow old work plastic box, but that seems like more trouble than it's worth. The one over the kitchen counter was easy to replace the plate so I didn't pay any attention to that receptacle since the front looked like any other receptacle.
I have an extreme case of electrical aluminitis mixed with not thinking beyond house wiring. I have also thought that I should go through all the hidden places where they have run Romex across sharp edges and see if it's likely to rub the insulation off over time. Once again I'm glad the Forum is here so I can post my crazy ideas and find out if I'm going to have a trailer that glows in the dark.
Gene
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