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Larry that may be an idea, but I am still wondering about the lack of neutrals too
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Re: lack of neutrals.
Aren't all six fuses on the right tied to the neutral?
Top two fuses on left tied to the black phase and the bottom four on the left tied to the red phase?
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Doug, that one is just plain scary-looking to me. I'd go with the junction box option as well. How much trouble would it be to extend a few MWBCs to that location to re-feed the circuits from the main panel?
I can't imagine an installation like that where a non-pro would be dabbling with all of those live components. It makes us appreciate the 'dead front' design of today's panels, even the ones that are 60+ years old.
---Ed---
"But the guy at Home Depot said it would work."
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I see what you mean by lack of neutral. The one along the fuse blocks doesnt seem to have a purpose, it looks like just the load side of fuse hots are running to the fuse holders and the 3 conductor neutral isnt connected to the knob and tube neutrals. This means you may have to do some digging, possibly the main knob and tube neutral is in the vicinity if you can open up the wall a little more.
Safest option is to find the where the first device is on these circuits and try to refeed with new 14/2 or talk the owner into a rewire - which may not be that bad if it is all original framing and it is not some mansion. Just abandon the old wiring, devices etc and wire as new.There are probably not many of the old devices on the original knob and tube.
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I'm not against new wiring, but if it isn't an option, can you protect the entire subpanel with a 2 pole GFI?
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