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ALUMINUM WIRES ARE DANGEROUS!!!! Not for what they are, but because what most people don't know will kill them... Aluminum wiring was used back in the day in a lot of trailer homes... they are not used any more in those applications. If you have a home that has aluminum wiring, you must understand that having the aluminum wiring places you with extra home maintenance that you may not be aware of... Every Spring, you should go through all of your receptacles and make sure that all of the connections are tight. The problem with aluminum wiring is that it expands and contracts as it get hot from use more than its copper cousin. This expansion and contraction tends to make your connections loosen over time. Loose connection / bad connections will cause a circuit to draw more amperage and create heat in some circumstances that lead to fires. So if you do have aluminum wiring and haven't gone through your home and checked your connections, do so before you plug in that space heater this winter. If you own a trailer home with aluminum wiring, I would just burn it down myself... If you have aluminum wiring and the knowledge to do so, I would change it out. But that is just my opinion.... If all I had was one run in the house with aluminum wire and it was going to a high amperage appliance like a stove? That crap would be yanked out with ferocity and changed over to copper... YMMV