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Originally Posted by richard2717

I have been slowly changing out several aluminum wire circuits in my house. It was a mixture of aluminum and copper wire from the start and everything was backstabbed in the devices. I changed out all the devices when I first moved in to get rid of the backstab originals. Still have 2 rooms left with aluminum wire. Very seldom do they get used so no load on any of it. The FP panel was changed on day one with a Square D QO panel. The FP panel was actually in really good shape visually but I had already had a few stories of fires with them. The house was built in 74 I think.

Not sure what "back-stabbed" means. When we bought this house (built in '68, so I knew it had aluminum wiring) I was told that there were "pigtails" installed. I pulled a switch plate to cover to check, and nope. The people who owned the place previous to us had been assured that the pigtails had been installed. They had been sold a bill of goods. They had to have pigtails installed before we bought it. In the process (which I observed), there was one outlet and one switch which had scorched wiring. Death waiting to happen.