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cad weld or bolted

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as a working electrician, any time i bonded to building steel it was a cad weld. is it permissable to bolt a gec to buiding steel for say,a transformer, or even a service. i thought ( in just reredaing the wording) bolted connections of structural members are ok, but a bolted gec termination? i was taught they were supposed to be irreversible ?
 
The connection of the grounding electrode conductor to the grounding electrode is not required to be irreversible.

Check out 250.68 and 250.70

Chris
 
thanks! nice to know i can still learn something, i don't like having to work with so many books, i forget where things are!
 
Greetings,

Yea I think what you were thinking of is that the GEC cannont be spliced unless irreversable. I see some spliced from time to time on older structures having a reconnect inspection and I flag them every time. Even seen some spliced where I just kicked em with my foot and they came loose.

BS
 
That bus bar thing gets kicked around a lot but I have not seen many inspectors who will buy a bus bar screwed to the wall as a slice point to the only GEC
 
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