Cutting holes in panel covers

[Electron_Sam78]

These pics might help explain. The quality of my camera phone isn't that great but you get the idea. It's recessed in a block wall mounted inside a locked cabinet. They don't want non-authorized people to access the receptacle.

 

[pjmurph2002]

Why not recess an outlet in the block wall adjacent to the panel and fish the wall with some BX?

 

[PetrosA]

These pics might help explain. The quality of my camera phone isn't that great but you get the idea. It's recessed in a block wall mounted inside a locked cabinet. They don't want non-authorized people to access the receptacle.

Nicest fix would be to upgrade the cabinet with a larger one that has space for a recept. and probably wouldn't take much longer than doing a Rube Goldberg to get a GFI in the cover (unless there are other lines coming in that we can't see here). Second option would be to cut in a second cabinet above or below that fits a recept.

 

[nakulak]

so/cord cap ?

 

[PetrosA]

so/cord cap ?

Rube Goldberg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwwWtbMfEFE

 

[guitarchris]

so/cord cap ?

sounds like a winner to me!

 

[Electron_Sam78]

I think I'm going to go with a wiremold type of receptacle

 

[220/221]

They don't want non-authorized people to access the receptacle.

Uhhh...turn the breaker off?

 

[Brian Oshman]

That original panel shell looks like an old knob and tube box. I have seen a few of those in real old commercial buildings. Had individually mounted sockets for screw in fuses and lined with sheet asbestos no less and mounted in the bathroom right next to the toilet all original still in service.

I have also seen old wooden panels in curches, same principal but a wooden cabinet.

We have come a long way, thank God.

 

[quogueelectric]

What about plugmold?

How about offset nipples??

 

[Electron_Sam78]

Uhhh...turn the breaker off?

lol yeah I could but I really don't want to mount it outside the panel.

How about offset nipples??

not enough room

 

[George Stolz]

While I agree installing a receptacle in the panel cover was a bad move...

I dont think the panel cover is listed to hold a device.

What about those little LED devices that let you know when there is power at a panelboard? I forget who makes them, but I've seen them in EC&M. Are we violating the listing of the panel if we install a pilot light or indicating device?

 

[hardworkingstiff]

So you unscrew the cover and hold the cover in one hand while you try to disconnect the wiring to the receptacle with the other hand? Or, ???

I just don't see this as being pratical.