hurk27
Senior Member
- Location
- Portage, Indiana NEC: 2008
Ok here it goes, I went on a new customer job today, it was at a large apartment complex.
The whole complex was wired using Sylvania gang-able service disconnects to meter stacks, with Sylvania/Zinco sub panels in each apartment.
The call was for a bad meter block, the plastic that holds the meter jaws was broke on one meter, and the parts are missing from two more by another EC who was there before me, but failed to return, to get this apartment back up and running (because it was occupied) I robbed the parts from another apartment that is being remodeled (big flood last year in basement apartments)
These buildings are 36 units each, the meter stacks are 4 high with the 4 60 amp breakers at the bottom of each stack, I have 4 stacks left of the 800 amp disconnect, and 5 right of it.
I'm the type of person who tries to give an option if available, to repair (with proper parts of course) to keep the price down, but I has exhausted all avenues of finding anything on these meter stacks, all I need is the meter blocks themselves, but would grab a whole stack if I could find one for the parts.
replacing the whole service I calculated at about $35k to $40k.
of course the bad or missing meter blocks are in different buildings, so replacing the service would give me plenty of spare parts:roll:
But I want to try my best to just repair and build a good customer relation for future business.
Does anyone know where to find such hard to find items like this.
The disconnect has this number on it's tag: 8MB8032SNUG, the "8032" could be a "6032" it was hard to see.
We do over half of the apartment complexes in this area, most are owned by very large cooperations, but this one is a privately owned one, so I don't want to sticker shock them.
here are some pic's of the meter block, and a tag on it, that don't come up anywhere in any search engines (I've tried them all)
If I get back out there, I'll try to take some more pic's, if I can remember to take the camera:roll:
Any help will be much appreciated
The whole complex was wired using Sylvania gang-able service disconnects to meter stacks, with Sylvania/Zinco sub panels in each apartment.
The call was for a bad meter block, the plastic that holds the meter jaws was broke on one meter, and the parts are missing from two more by another EC who was there before me, but failed to return, to get this apartment back up and running (because it was occupied) I robbed the parts from another apartment that is being remodeled (big flood last year in basement apartments)
These buildings are 36 units each, the meter stacks are 4 high with the 4 60 amp breakers at the bottom of each stack, I have 4 stacks left of the 800 amp disconnect, and 5 right of it.
I'm the type of person who tries to give an option if available, to repair (with proper parts of course) to keep the price down, but I has exhausted all avenues of finding anything on these meter stacks, all I need is the meter blocks themselves, but would grab a whole stack if I could find one for the parts.
replacing the whole service I calculated at about $35k to $40k.
of course the bad or missing meter blocks are in different buildings, so replacing the service would give me plenty of spare parts:roll:
But I want to try my best to just repair and build a good customer relation for future business.
Does anyone know where to find such hard to find items like this.
The disconnect has this number on it's tag: 8MB8032SNUG, the "8032" could be a "6032" it was hard to see.
We do over half of the apartment complexes in this area, most are owned by very large cooperations, but this one is a privately owned one, so I don't want to sticker shock them.
here are some pic's of the meter block, and a tag on it, that don't come up anywhere in any search engines (I've tried them all)
If I get back out there, I'll try to take some more pic's, if I can remember to take the camera:roll:
Any help will be much appreciated
