Anyone still use round JBs ?

[ipf]

I don't really care if it has MF on it providing my connectors are suitable the enclosure I use will be many steps above those Wago boxes.

True, and it costs a bit doing this everywhere on repairs.

 

[Lucien Nunes]

I think the spin-on lid was a factor in the popularity of round boxes. By moulding the threads into the bakelite, there was no need for a screw or a threaded brass insert in the base; a significant saving in cost, but obviously only suitable for a round box. Eventually the requirement for tool access and the selectable entry lid made the screw necessary. I now collect the older style for the museum, and perhaps should begin on the older of the 'modern' varieties, e.g. Ashley ones with the old script logo.

Metal JBs for lead-sheathed cables were available round, square or rectangular. They didn't have the moulded-in terminals so their usage was not pre-defined as it is with the bakelite ones.

 

[Rockingit]

Just to be contraversial.... I've been known to use wago's inside a larger 30A JB.........

 

[Let me think]

No matter what you use, only concern I have is making sure there is some form of cable strain relieve - to give the cable some extra insurance of staying fixed to terminals, during the 'inadvertently and over enthusiast cable tuggers' out there...of which I'm one of them, saying that I come across JBs with no strain relieve and you could hang a small elephant from and the cable would never come out of the terminal.

 

[loz2754]

No matter what you use, only concern I have is making sure there is some form of cable strain relieve - to give the cable some extra insurance of staying fixed to terminals, during the 'inadvertently and over enthusiast cable tuggers' out there...of which I'm one of them, saying that I come across JBs with no strain relieve and you could hang a small elephant from and the cable would never come out of the terminal.

Nice one. I'm going to use the small elephant tug test from now on.

 

[7029 dave]

Ashley range were/are good still today.

 

[Dave OCD]

Ashley are Hager these days Dave, still identical though apart from the name.