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Pushamatic panels were very popular in my area in the 60's and 70's. When I started in business in 74 that was the breaker of choice for me because of the bolt in feature. A couple problems that I have seen is dampness would rust the internal parts of the breaker and they would not trip, when resetting a tripped breaker you have to give them kind of a violent push or they won't reset and some installers would cross thread the buss when installing. Also when installing you are bolting to a live buss unless you turn the main off. Had a bad experience installing a breaker in a bar many years ago I didn't shut the main off and my screwdriver slipped off the screw and faulted from the buss to the back of the panel. The screwdriver opened the main the hard way. It was a dark room and the flash almost blinded me.
 
I like tourtiere pie on Christmas Day ..

And those panels were popular in my little corner of the world ,.. Ive not had to service any breakers ,.that I can remember ..
 
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I have lived with Pushmatic breakers for 33 of the past 44 years. I have experienced them "failing to reset" but do not consider that to be a fundamental problem. Never once have I had the desire to "tear" them out. Replacement Pushmatic breakers are still manufactured by several companies including Siemens, their present owner. Panelboard boxes were increased in volume in the early 80's (I think UL forced the change based on heat rise).
 
mdshunk said:
You talk funny, Peedah. By the way, breakfast is not breakfast unless it comes with scrapple. (which my wife calls crapple)
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Scrapple is what is left over from making Spam.

Scrapple is good with Scamutz :grin:
 
One of the supermarkets I do service calls to has pushmatic 3 phase switchgear. I have posted pictures but they are lousy.

Picture a large piece of three phase switch gear with a number of horizontal mounted pushmatic panels installed in it. The have a very odd phase layout and you can not supply three phase loads from the pragmatics. For the three phase loads they use breakers similar to a GE TED.
 
iwire said:
Picture a large piece of three phase switch gear with a number of horizontal mounted pushmatic panels installed in it.
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I work on a piece of Westinghouse gear in an old police station that's pretty much the same way. Pretty cool, except you need to remove 9,000 screws to get enough covers off do do anything.
 
mdshunk said:
In my opinion, the PushMatic was the finest resi panel ever made. They were just hard for old people to push in and out. When installed outdoors, the little window that shows 'on' or 'off' gets hard to read. If they still made PushMatic's, that would be my brand of choice.
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It scares me or maybe it makes me proud, BUT you and I agree WAYYYYYYYY too much.
 
Had Pushmatic in my own house and had no problems at all with them but they went away when the electrical was upgraded. Also have worked on quite a few around my area. Have only had to replace circuit breakers that wouldn't reset and one that overheated from the bolt not being tightened at installation.

Ray
 
mdshunk said:
Dinner is the noon meal and supper is the evening meal. Lunch is what you eat from a paper sack.
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Were you raised in the mid west? Thats what my grandma calls it, shes from the mid west. Still calls the fridge an ice box and the vacuum the "sweeper" hehe :grin:

~Matt
 
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