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BigClive
12-07-2006, 06:44 PM
Just stumbled across this page on a "crap wiring" thread of an electrical forum...
http://electrical-contractor.net/ubb/Forum5/HTML/000253.html

Hmm, that's not normal is it?

Orgnizdlbr
12-07-2006, 06:49 PM
Not where I come from Clive, LOL

LINETRASH
12-07-2006, 09:09 PM
Oh shit!

That is plum frightining, Clive!

The pucker factor goes through the roof when I see the exposed primary bushing.

Hell, I once was bebopping behind a shopping center when I noticed a vault door with a bicycle cable lock secuing the doors.

We secure our vaults with a hasp and lock or a chain.

Naturally, I stopped and checked it out.

I pulled the doors back, and was suprised to see a cot, bedding, porn mags, food, and clothes on the floor of the vault, not 6 feet from the transformer bank, 277/480 no less!

I went to my truck and retrieved my "big red key" ( a set of 3' bolt cutters ).

As I was chopping the cable, an older street person came running up, yelling "whoa!" I replied, "Whoa my ass", and cut the cable.

Turns out the guy ( a vet ) had been squatting in the vault for months.

I felt shitty for ousting him, even gave him 10 bucks for food, but I never would have been able to sleep at night knowing the consequences if a pot or cable failed while he was in there.

Just when you think you've seen everything, you are wrong!