Describe different strategies that electricians use to properly position a duplex receptacle into a device box.

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Spacers are needed when the device box was installed so that the front edge of the box sets back from the wall surface. Electricians use many common items such as spacers, placing them on the 6-32 screw between a wall box and a receptacle or switch yoke:
•?????A length of bare 14 AWG grounding conductor wrapped several times around the shank of a No. 2 Phillips screwdriver. The coils of wire can be cut off to provide the needed spacers.
•?????Small flat washers
•?????Plastic tubing cut to the desired length
•?????Mounting ears from receptacles and switches installed in previous installations that they save from previous installations where they weren’t needed

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