- Location
- Massachusetts
I was asked to go in the other night to be another pair of hands for one of other guys doing a shutdown.
He told me about the job, he had to add a breaker and I knew the panelboard he spoke of because I had already helped drag a set of 350s and 500s into it.
Here it is when we started, its seen a lot of changes over the years.
Looks like we are going to have to fit it in up top.
Hey, what are those wires under the trim?
Now I see, someone put a lot of effort into doing it wrong.
Below we have removed the custom work and started installing the right hardware that was still easy enough to get.
We actually had two of these kits which turned out to be a good thing as the round spacers for phase B arrived with damaged threads and we could not use them.
Below we are replacing the old cloth covered, tin plated copper that was feeding the breaker, we found bare copper showing in spots due to rubbing on panel parts. Not real happy about the lugs but it was all we had at 1 AM and the ice cream was melting.
Closed up as best we could and back on line.
He told me about the job, he had to add a breaker and I knew the panelboard he spoke of because I had already helped drag a set of 350s and 500s into it.
Here it is when we started, its seen a lot of changes over the years.
Looks like we are going to have to fit it in up top.
Hey, what are those wires under the trim?
Now I see, someone put a lot of effort into doing it wrong.
Below we have removed the custom work and started installing the right hardware that was still easy enough to get.
We actually had two of these kits which turned out to be a good thing as the round spacers for phase B arrived with damaged threads and we could not use them.
Below we are replacing the old cloth covered, tin plated copper that was feeding the breaker, we found bare copper showing in spots due to rubbing on panel parts. Not real happy about the lugs but it was all we had at 1 AM and the ice cream was melting.
Closed up as best we could and back on line.
