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So - I've been waiting since June for my new wall oven. I ordered one in black and finally in August they said they're having some kind of manufacturing problem with the black and they'll only have stainless steel for an indefinite time. So I talked them into getting me a stainless oven and matching cook top for the price of black. Three weeks ago the distributor called and said my oven is in - but it's black! I've been using the stainless cooktop for two months and I'm not taking it back out. So I waited another three weeks for the stainless oven arrived. I was all set to install it Saturday, had it cribbed up in front of the opening ready to wire it up and slide it in, and discovered that the house wiring is aluminum. I checked the box and it is the only aluminum circuit in the house. I have no idea why. There was no chance of getting any alumiconns on Saturday. I went to the electrical distributors this morning and they wouldn't sell me the connectors because I'm not a licensed electrician. I told them I'm a licensed PE but that didn't impress him at all. I saw an electrician's truck in the driveway of a house that's being built down the street from mine and talked the electrician into coming over and hooking up my oven on his lunch hour. He came over this afternoon and he wanted to use plain old wire nuts on it! I'm not a licensed electrician, just got a plain old PE, but I know better than that. I didn't want to lose the guy so I tried to finessed it so I didn't exactly call him stupid but made it plain I didn't want to do it his way. He said he'd stop by electrical distributor in the morning to get the Alumiconns to do it right. Never had so much trouble getting three little wires connected.