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#124181 08/23/06 02:40 PM
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Don, they look like copper or brass to me.


Larry Fine
Fine Electric Co.
fineelectricco.com
#124182 08/23/06 05:57 PM
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Aluminum locknuts possibly? Seen those before when i worked behind the counter. Damn I will have to go down to the basement again and look! [Linked Image]

A.D

#124183 08/24/06 05:08 PM
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Do you think it pops at 576 amps?

#124184 08/25/06 05:46 PM
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LOL
Possibly!
We will never know because
"Murphy's law" happened there a few years ago.. A "$1500" Pole top transformer burned up in order to protect a pair of "$15" fuses..
Isn't that how it goes sometime days!!

A.D

#124185 08/27/06 03:27 AM
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I rewired a house once and found a whole lot of MI cable had been used throughout. It was weird finding it in a house. Its all gone now....

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