But, a royal pain to cut in boxes and light cans compared to drywall.
Mine too. They were something like 2' x 4' and I remember them using double-headed nails, implying the use of adhesive.
For almost 20 years, residential molded case breakers clear in well less than 3 cycles.
It depends on how much current there is. A 15 amp fuse loaded to 20 amps may take hours to Open if it ever does.
The good thing here is that by 1972 there will normally be a ground with all branch circuits. Maybe not the dryer or range ( with 60 amps it proobably doesn't have those anyway).
Most the consumer electronic items don't draw that much load. You can pack the house with a lot of that stuff and it will not come close to overloading a 60 amp supply. These days even the electronic driven lighting is less load than what lighting used to typically need.
Most every 60 amp service I saw growing up was a standard Murray fuse box with the pull out for a range, and an electric range was in the house. 60 amp fused main, 40 amp fuse range. By 1970 I saw no new 60 amp services.
Plaster walls AND the fuse box in the bathroom? That makes me think this as well. My theory would be that it was an older home and what is now a bathroom was originally a closet or pantry where the fuse box was located. Then most of the home was torn down and replaced in 1972, but they left a small portion standing to be able to permit it as a “remodel” instead of new construction, and that pantry was left standing so they could use the existing service drop for construction. Then as it progressed, that pantry was made into a bathroom.
200.4(A) says one neutral per MWBC is fine.
That's true but I was referring to when you extend the circuits you can't run one big neutral. You have to run one per circuit
which would make you a minority
main ,range & four Frank
Still see "main-range-& 4" on occasion in these parts but there is usually a couple of "2 circuit add on's" tapped in also.
I have found that if you do then you can not sell to fha, VA, or usda buyer. Why limit your options when it could be thousands of $ extra in profit. Not to mention you build a reputation. I do like to think of NEC as bare minimum. Just because I can use the old panel as a junction box does not mean it looks good or even serves the best function as other options would.
the anarchy of bureaucratic libertopia limits 'options' to 'dog eat dog' N Jones , no level playing field does that, which i have had to live now going on 4 decades, along with your counterpart 'compeditors' who've flocked to my state via the 'foreclosure pandemic' quicker than sh*t thru a goose.....
My parent's home was built in 1971, completed in 1972. CP&L then had special deals for "all electric" and "all electric with AC". Our home was about 3000 sq-ft with 200A service and breakers (ITE) for 230V loads (kitchen appliances and resistance heat) and a feeder for the fuse box for lighting and receptacle loads. We had no AC so were given a "Bronze Medallion" for the front entry. If we had AC, it would have been a "Gold Medallion".
