Queens box to use as a splice panel

[dm9289]

A finished bathroom had a panel that needed replaced to pass inspection it needed relocated. Someone mentioned remove panel replace with Queens box for splices and relocate panel.
I have no idea what a Queens box is. In the moment it was not involved with my personnel work but later it bothered me. Does anyone know what a queens box is?

 

[PaulMmn]

From your description it sounds like (and is subject to a more informed response) you install a new panel in a convenient spot, then gut the old box and splice and extend the wires from the old box to the new box. The splices are in the old box, which gets a plain metal cover in place of the door panel.
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An on-line search did little more than show me pictures of mattresses and box springs. Queen-sized.
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Nearest I could come to a picture of what the old panel might look like (if taken with a grain of salt)--

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[dm9289]

From your description it sounds like (and is subject to a more informed response) you install a new panel in a convenient spot, then gut the old box and splice and extend the wires from the old box to the new box. The splices are in the old box, which gets a plain metal cover in place of the door panel.
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An on-line search did little more than show me pictures of mattresses and box springs. Queen-sized.
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Thats what i got also with Mattresses. I think its just a large junction box

 

[PaulMmn]

Thats what i got also with Mattresses. I think its just a large junction box

AFAIK, you don't remove the old box-- just the main power feed gets shifted to the new box (plug the holes in the old box). The breakers, bus bars all go away; all circuits are spliced in the old breaker box-- it's now just a large junction box.

 

[PaulMmn]

Discussion are https://forum.nachi.org/t/service-panel-used-as-junction-box/6504 and other locations... I searched for >electrical breaker box used as junction box<
General consensus is that it's legal, but unless you replace the existing door with a flat panel, the hinged door must be permanently fastened shut, and a label on the front should indicate where the breakers are now located, and the box must be 'accessible' (no paneling over it with drywall).

 

[dm9289]

Discussion are https://forum.nachi.org/t/service-panel-used-as-junction-box/6504 and other locations... I searched for >electrical breaker box used as junction box<
General consensus is that it's legal, but unless you replace the existing door with a flat panel, the hinged door must be permanently fastened shut, and a label on the front should indicate where the breakers are now located, and the box must be 'accessible' (no paneling over it with drywall).

Thank you