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Weird 3 way wire help

grandmum
15 years ago

My son was going to replace a 3 way switch for me and stopped before removing old switch because of what he saw. The black (presumed hot) was wired to the screw differantly than what he was used to seeing.

Rather than a a hook formed with the bare wire and swatch of insulation was cut from the wire and the entire wire looped around screw.... like a U shape, not cut wire.

Also an orange (presumed traveler wire?) was stabbed in the back of outlet. Did not see white (neutral) but I am assuming it is wirenutted behind?

How should he proceed to simply replace switch. Both the weird u shape splice and the back stabbed wire (how do you remove?

Thanks

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