Discuss Backstabbing: electrician says all outlets in home should be replaced? in the USA area at ElectriciansForums.net

I was looking at something on youtube about wiring outlets and they mentioned that using the back stabs to hook up outlets was not a good idea and so I googled to see if that was the consensus and came across this thread..
 

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