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06-19-2009, 12:49 PM
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Local 150 Lake County,IL
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Found this beauty...
EDIT: Ignore posts below referring to people being in pictures. I had posted wrong pictures and have since corrected this.
These pictures are in an older furniture store we were doing some work in. It is now a dollar store, needless to say we had to take care of a few "items" before inspection...
This is a regular 1900 box with 3 #6 in it with a ground wire, sorry can't remember the size of it. Spliced onto two other sets of #6 for a rooftop A/C unit and the furnace. Can you say BOXFILL???!!!!
And this was just SCARY!!!
Last edited by running dummy; 06-21-2009 at 08:44 PM.
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06-19-2009, 12:51 PM
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Unlimited Lic.Electrician
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Which one of those people is you?
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06-19-2009, 12:54 PM
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Local 150 Lake County,IL
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I'm also not seeing any pictures on my comp, but when I go back to try a different method (the insert pic method, I used [IMG]) it says that I already have 3 pictures up. Can anyone else see them?
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06-19-2009, 12:57 PM
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Unlimited Lic.Electrician
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I see 3 pictures. 1 is a duplicate. 1 picture of a j-box
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06-19-2009, 12:58 PM
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Unlimited Lic.Electrician
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2 pictures have people in them.
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06-19-2009, 01:05 PM
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This is the picture posted twice, the other shows the J.Box
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06-19-2009, 01:12 PM
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Local 150 Lake County,IL
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ok I THINK i figured this out. had to go on my phone to see the dang pictures. These should be the right ones. whew! I think I made that WAY harder than it should have been
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06-19-2009, 03:37 PM
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I see dead people... or no people at all.
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06-19-2009, 04:05 PM
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Very nice.
I was just talking about box fill today with my foreman.
Amazing.
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06-19-2009, 04:25 PM
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Boxfill is over-rated anyway. The NEC is too tough on boxfill in my opinion. Also that splice isn't very dangerous considering nobody can touch it up in the rafters like that. If anything it gives the conductors more room to breathe.
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06-19-2009, 04:47 PM
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yeah, you would need a 10 foot ladder to get to that...imo, not that big of a deal.
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06-19-2009, 06:26 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by steelersman
Boxfill is over-rated anyway. The NEC is too tough on boxfill in my opinion. Also that splice isn't very dangerous considering nobody can touch it up in the rafters like that. If anything it gives the conductors more room to breathe.
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I don't know. It depends on what the loads are on the circuits in the box, I guess. I have seen overstuffed boxes so hot you could light a cigar on them. And that tap may not be dangerous because it is inaccessible, but it has jackleg written all over it. I can't imagine what the other wiring we can't see must look like.
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06-19-2009, 06:32 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by InPhase277
I don't know. It depends on what the loads are on the circuits in the box, I guess. I have seen overstuffed boxes so hot you could light a cigar on them. And that tap may not be dangerous because it is inaccessible, but it has jackleg written all over it. I can't imagine what the other wiring we can't see must look like.
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Good point.
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06-19-2009, 10:33 PM
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i see an FPE product in the background
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06-19-2009, 10:39 PM
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That splice is nothing the back of my hammer cant fix 
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06-19-2009, 11:30 PM
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Unlimited Lic.Electrician
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Where did the people go?
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06-19-2009, 11:38 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by william1978
Where did the people go?
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What people? I never saw any people.
Someone must be smoking something. 
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06-19-2009, 11:41 PM
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Quote:
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What people? I never saw any people.
Someone must be smoking something. |
When he first posted he had pictures of people on there, and now they are gone.
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06-19-2009, 11:44 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by william1978
When he first posted he had pictures of people on there, and now they are gone.
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The pictures, or the people? 
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06-19-2009, 11:45 PM
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Unlimited Lic.Electrician
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Quote:
Originally Posted by 480sparky
The pictures, or the people? |
There was pictures of people first.
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