We painted our first floor and the outlets are all brown so I wanted to replace them and the switches with white ones. In doing so I was taking a ground wire off the old outlet and it snapped off of the main ground wire. It looks like the main ground wire is coiled up and a small piece of ground was used to connect to the outlet.
What are my options here?
Should I try to uncoil the ground?
I thought there was some kind of electrical nut that I could use to attach more ground as well?
The copper cable here is the ground which had a thin wire coming off of it that snapped off to attach to the outlet.
Thanks in advance!
Best Answer
The copper cap holding the bare copper wires together is a crimp connector. You can cut this off and you will be left with the two twisted wires behind it.
Add a pigtail (a short piece of bare wire), carefully twisting one end of it around the remaining bare wires. Then put a wirenut over the bundle. Carefully bend the other end of the pigtail forward to wrap around the screw terminal of the switch.