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I found some old pics of a faulted panel I replaced earlier this year. 24 apartments were out from 9PM when the fire department got there to 5PM the next day. Phase to phase short in the buss.

Alll that crap in the panel was the stuff from the fire extinguisher. It was EVERYWHERE!







Disconnect wiring/ remove guts.








Old can out.







DAMN! Thre camera really does add 20 pounds! The dirtier I get the happier I am






New can in place




Almost done.









This was the laundry room sub panel to the left.

JohnJ0906

Were all the conductors good, or did you have to repull or splice? The ones in the 6th picture look almost new.

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jrclen

Nice job. Were those feeders for the individual appartments? I've dealt with the fire extinguisher powder too. I'd be interested in the condition of the conductors when you started also.

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I was able to use all the conductors by planning ahead, lowering the new panel and cutting holes in the right places. I cleaned them up with some orange hand cleaner and some tape here and there.

It would have been a BEAR to repull ANY of it. The feeders were about 300' undergound, installed in about 1967. The circuits to the apartments would have been worse. Each 2 pole 100 fed two apartments (upstairs/downstairs)via a feed thru panel in the downstairs units. It's in the ghetto and I don't like to go in ONE of those slums no less ALL of them.

Magnettica

Thanks for sharing the pics. That looks like one hell of a job. I've done my share of repairing fire damaged equipment as well. And you haven't experience the ghetto until you've worked in Newark or East Orange, NJ. Now that's the ghetto! (been there, done that).

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jrclen

And I thought I had it tough with all the farm dogs, horses, and cattle I have to deal with.

randomkiller

Amen brother.

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randomkiller

How about a drug dealers pit bulls, crack whores, street people, getting your truck broken into four times in the same year? I'll take farm life any day.

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I got freaking ROBBED at work one time!


Probaby 8 years ago I was sitting in my truck, door open, at 8 AM, writing an invoice for some work I did the previous day. All of a sudden there was this gang banger punk standing right in my door, leaning into the cab about six inches from me. I leaned away enough to see his hand under his jacket.

"How much money did you get on this job" he asked. I replied "I got paid yesterday and it was a check...why are you standing so close?"

"Give me your fukkin money right now motherfukker" he says, hand still pointing at me under his shirt.

I am 90% sure he doesn't have a gun as he would have showed it....but 90% aint enough as I am like 12" away from this asswipe.

I keep both hands up in the surrender posture and try to calm him down. "Relax dude..I got some cash"...heh heh...I was trying to bond with him. I reached into my front pocket where I had several hundred dollars, peeled off a few bills and handed it to him. He eagerly took it and stepped back a bit and I saw his hand come out from under his jacket....empty.


He doesn't have a gun....but I do. My hand gun was holstered under my seat (legal). The look on his face was PRICELESS. He was at the back of my truck when he saw my revolver and took off at a full sprint. Crap...I am pushing 50 and this kid is 20 something. I chased him for about 50 feet calling him every slur and cuss word in my vocabulary. I finally said "drop the money and I'll let it go!"

The little dumbass BELIEVED me. He tossed the cash and slowed his escape to a walk. I was about 50' away, picking up my $120 still cursing at him saying things like "I should just shoot your worthless ass". I collected my cash and went back to my truck to retrieve my cell phone. Withing TWO minutes there were a couple of cruisers in the neighborhood. I could still see the punk about a block away and directed the cruiser, via cellphone to his location. Another cruiser picked me up to ID him. It was just like Cops. He was handcuffed and struggling as they held him against the car.

Mandatory 5 years, no probation. I didn't even have to go to court. They charged him with aggrevated assult AND armed robbery and plead it down to just aggrevated assult.

jrclen

You'd be bored silly. I did some remodel work in the arm pit of Milwaukee one summer. I spent more time locking the truck and hiding stuff than I did working. It did make me appreciate commercial again.

frenchsparky

there were two area i know they have trouble brewing one time i have a service call it was in West Allis area i almost got swipped in that area and the other area it called Germantown.

feel like got into diffrent world there.

Merci, Marc

jrclen

I hear you Marc. I try to avoid those places around Milwaukee now. I worked for years in and around Madison, but now that is getting bad in some areas too. I did a commercial job over in Sheboygan and that has a bad neighborhood too. But nothing like the out east guys are talking about.