50's "Grounded" Wiring

[randynavarro]

In my neck of the woods, they began wiring with three-wire cable in the 50's; however, they used the bare ground wire to bond the metal j-box and not the outlet. They still used a two-slot receptacle. The copper hot and neutral would be standard 12 or 14 gage but the ground wire would be16 gage.

Is it acceptable to install a jumper from the bonded / grounded metal j-box to a new three-slot outlet?

[Tom Corrigan]

Better yet try one of these

http://www.leviton.com/OA_HTML/ibeCCtpI ... tion=24616

Tom Corrigan

[hausdok]

Hi Randy,

I think the answer is yes. If memory serves, it has to be a pair of pigtails; one on the receptacle, one on the box, with a wire nut joining them. I could be wrong on that though; I'm remembering it from a Q & A electrical board from a lot of years ago. I'd probably just write the recommendation to add jumpers and let the sparky figure it out.

OT - OF!!!

M.