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Some of the guys here on the BB have to fight this kind of stuff all on their own, without any backing Whew, must be tough!

that bears repeatin' Scott!

However it must be noted that the integrity of some of these older units are admirable in there hearty constitution. I used the term 'existing' because if it indeed has done so, and is of no life and/or saftey threat let it be. If being antiquated alone rates the round file my ol' lady would have had me shipped off years ago. I would probably shoot my biz in the foot should i publicly advertise this point of view, but who really does the math? 1/2 the service upgrades I do are the call of bank inspectors and/or realtors that simply don't like fuses or 60A services.

I saw something similar the other day at a church building. There were several doors that contained fuses behind them. THey were like 200A fuses. I located the bad fuse for the cust but couldn't tell him(other than to hire an electrician) of how to go about replacing it. I saw no way of disconnecting power to this panel. It was 3Ø 4W delta and the only means I could see of replacing the fuses were to deenergize the trans bank. THere were no disconnects at all. The W/H outside fed directly into a CT metering can and from there it went straight to the buss of the panel and then only had fuses. Beat all I had ever seen.