Can anyone recommend a good wire nut for connecting 4+ 12 AWG wires? I have a 2-gang box, where I will have a minimum of 4 wires in each splice. The neutrals and hots will have to accommodate 4 12 AWG and 2 16 AWG wires (the 16 AWG are stranded wires from the Insteon light switches). I have trouble with these larger 12 AWG pigtails, and I believe that the red Ideal wire nuts are too small. Would it make sense to get one of those drill bits to tighten the wire nuts more securely? I saw these from 3M, and I thought they may work well: [url=http://www.amazon.com/3M-Performance-Connector-Yellow-Skirt/dp/B009SJQG7K/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1446920766&sr=8-1&keywords=3m+wire+nut]3M R/Y+ Performance Plus Wire Connector, Red with Yellow Skirt, 100 Per Box - Electrical Wires - Amazon.com[/url] I was thinking about using the Wago or Ideal push-in connectors, but I know a lot of people don't trust them. I also saw lever nuts, but they don't have one for 6 connections: [url=http://www.amazon.com/Wago-222-415-LEVER-NUTS-Conductor-Connectors/dp/B003K12QN0/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1446922038&sr=8-2&keywords=wago+lever]Wago 222-415 LEVER-NUTS 5 Conductor Compact Connectors 40 PK: Electrical Wires: Amazon.com: Industrial & Scientific[/url] I appreciate any suggestions!

We are remodeling our kitchen. The existing kitchen had built-in bulkheads above the upper kitchen cabinets. We want to reclaim that space and run cabinets up to the ceiling. To that end, I removed one section of bulkhead recently, and discovered several electrical cables running through the bulkhead space. The bulkheads were part of the original construction, so much so that the circuits were run through them, and they were filled with attic insulation. I now need to do something with these electrical circuits so they will be confined to the new boundaries of the wall/ceiling. I have 4 cables in this bulkhead location that need work. (Ignore the telephone wires in the pictures. I'm just going to cut them out. We don't use the telephone jacks at all, and in fact have already removed several of them in other rooms in the house in the past.) I'm referencing the circuits with numbers and the cables with letters for a hopefully easier read. This picture shows two of them. The black cable (A) is on the kitchen receptacles circuit (circuit 5) and the white cable (B) is on a main floor receptacles and ceiling lights circuit (circuit 10). [ATTACH]58546[/ATTACH] This picture shows the other two. The black cable (C) closest to the forefront is on circuit 5. The farthest black cable (D) is on circuit 10. [ATTACH]58547[/ATTACH] So cables A and C are on 5 and B and D are on 10. Re-wiring the entire circuit segments isn't an option due to cost, time (lots and lots of attic insulation which complicates matters significantly), and weather (turning much colder here in Michigan over the weekend so I don't want to keep attic insulation pushed away from ceiling/wire locations any longer than necessary), so I'm looking at extending them via junction boxes. There's a lot of insulation in our attic and I want to mount the junction boxes higher than the insulation level. A appears to originate from one of the receptacles on the other side of the kitchen. I've traced it halfway across the attic in that direction, and it is the hot feed for receptacle X in the wall shown in the picture. I want to cut it somewhere in the wall and run it from the ceiling to an attic junction box and then run a new cable from the junction box down to receptacle X. B runs from the kitchen ceiling light (picture below from the attic) to an unknown location, but presumably to the light switch that is in the direction that the cable is heading. Unsure of the power direction on this circuit. I want to cut this one in the ceiling and run the switch side up to an attic junction box and then run a new cable from the junction box to the kitchen light box. [ATTACH]58548[/ATTACH] C runs from receptacle Y on the same kitchen wall shown in the picture. The B cable feeds X, X feeds Y, and Y feeds receptacle Z on a different kitchen wall. Z is the end of the circuit, and is on the wall that is planned to be removed as part of the kitchen remodel. I want to cut C in the wall and detach it from receptacle Y. Y will now be the end of circuit 5 and Z will be removed from use since it will be going away anyway shortly. D runs from an unknown location to an unknown location. I've traced it halfway across the attic, and down in the stud cavity it turns and goes through the stud in the direction of a receptacle that is in the room on the other side of the wall, which is also on circuit 10. I want to cut it and run the attic side to a attic junction box, run the wall side to an attic junction box, and connect the two attic junction boxes with a new cable. I've never cut into the middle of existing circuits before, so just want to make sure there aren't any serious concerns with these plans.