How brave was........

[gtblum]

How brave was the person that did this. At least if you pull the main,there are still kitchen lights.

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[charlieb]

Originally posted by gtblum

How brave was the person that did this. At least if you pull the main,there are still kitchen lights.

There is a fine line between brave and stupid. That fella crossed the line a long time ago.

[Jeremy]

Gotta do somethin, fun and exciting!

[Billy_Bob]

Is the house for sale because there was a death in the family?

BTW because those main lugs carry so much amperage, then need to be torqued with a large torque wrench to the correct tightness. If this is not done, you can get a warm/hot connection there, then eventually flickering lights and a poor connection.

The wire on the left does not look like it is "squished" in there as tightly as the wire on the right.

[gtblum]

Here's the sad part.

It's my box. My brother is an electrician/nuke plant operator. I had come over to plan out an upgrade for a new service.

I can't repeat his comments here.

The good part is that I have another picture for my sample report.

[sirch]

Yep, that is sad. Isn't it a shame most of us fall into the " do as I say, not as I do" catagory[:-paperba

[Neal Lewis]

Might want to look at those green fuses in the box...

[gtblum]

Originally posted by Neal Lewis

Might want to look at those green fuses in the box...

The whole thing is junk. Hopefully after next week it'll be a memory.

[hausdok]

Hi,

Don't junk it; save it, find a home inspection school that wants it as a training aid and ship it off as a donation. When Douglas Hansen was teaching at the College of San Mateo, I sent him a Zinsco Magnatrip panel. He wired it up and used it as a training prop .

An old fuse box wired up with a half dozen screwed up items would make an excellent training aid for inspectors.

ONE TEAM - ONE FIGHT!!!

Mike

[gtblum]

Good point. Maybe the local B.O.C.E.S. could use it to teach the youngsters.[:-graduat

[Kyle Kubs]

You can cut off the power to the main lugs to work on that area safely (without cutting the lines at the weather head) I'm not going to say how. Those that know, know. Those that don't shouldn't be messin around with that. As I often tell my clients when they talk about doing electrical work themselves... Really smart people know when to keep their hands in their pockets.