So my efforts to organize the garage and various bins full of "stuff" continues.
However, I'm finding myself challenged with wire nuts. I've collected over time a bunch of little baggies, clamshell cases, and boxes of wire nuts, from several different manufacturers. Ideal, Commercial Electric, GB, etc. I had thought that wire nuts in general were universally sized based on color. So a red wire nut from one company more or less is the same as a red nut from another company. But maybe this is not the case? I have a small package of yellow nuts for example that look like they have a smaller core than the "GB WireGard" nuts that I have in another package. So are they all different depending on who makes them?
I'm looking to move all these various nuts into a single container with labels, and was hoping I could just throw all the yellow ones together, etc. and label with the AWG sizes appropriate.
But if they are in fact all different, I guess I could just pick a manufacturer and throw out the rest. Any reason why one manufacturer is better than another? 5mins on the internet seems to suggest most sparkys prefer Ideal, but can't explain why. If nothing else, this exercise is teaching me that there's no reason to save every little bag of screws, wire nuts, etc. that comes with every product, in case I'll need it later. I'm probably better off tossing all the misc stuff in a trash bucket rather than trying to keep and sort it.
