Old Fuse Board Eye Candy

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When I was an apprentice (15 years ago) I heard the term "dead front" a lot, but didn't really understand it until one day in apprenticeship school the instructor passed around an electrical textbook from when he was an apprentice. As I was thumbing through it I came across a section on "live front" and "dead front" panels. Seeing a live front panel made dead fronts make sense.
 
120V panel with double pole switches and both the line and neutral fused. I wonder if they even grounded one line?

Also looks like a lot of 30A fuses for a 60A panel. I'd guess this probably started life full of 15A fuses, and someone got tired of replacing them as more newer appliances were added.
 
Did you see his post of the other side of that? Check out that the label shows who it was made for and where it originally shipped to, all in cursive writing...
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Jraef said:
Did you see his post of the other side of that? Check out that the label shows who it was made for and where it originally shipped to, all in cursive writing...
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That's cool. It stood up very well after all those years.

The person who wrote this probably got an "A" in a penmanship class that used the Palmer method:
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The Palmer method of business writing : a series of self-teaching in rapid, plain, unshaded, coarse-pen, muscular movement writing ... : Palmer, A. N. (Austin Norman), 1859-1927 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

95 p. : 15 x 24 cm
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Jraef said:
Did you see his post of the other side of that? Check out that the label shows who it was made for and where it originally shipped to, all in cursive writing...
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Nunn Electric appears to still be around in Amarillo.
 
When I retired from the University that I worked at in 2007 we still had an identical old panel still in service in a boathouse on the Charles River in Cambridge. Still worked fine.
 
mbrooke said:
Weclome :)

I may one day make this my desktop background.
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Looks like slate. The last slate panels I dealt with were face plate differential regulators in a paper mill in Grisby, east coast of England.
A little tale - a digression but mods, be kind.
We were modifying it but the mill shut down as have many others here. Anyway, the particular machine was bought by a paper making company in Taiwan. The regulators were in the field control of DC motors so had to deal with the field current. We had redesigned the system to provide PWM control of the fields. This meant that the face plate resistors could be much reduced in size.

That got done in Taiwan. But they didn't have slate so the regulators got rebuilt on marble - looked the real deal.............:)
 
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