[Shop-talk] Electrical fire waiting to happen

[Doug Braun]

Yikes!  Are you saying that to switch off a breaker,
an electrician will short it out at the outlet box to
avoid the trouble of going down to the basement,
identifying the correct breaker, and manually
switching it off?

Doug


--- Jack Brooks <jibjib at att.net> wrote:

>  I changed out all the outlets in a home with a
> Federal Pacific panel.
> Typically, I did them live, but every once in a
> while there was a
> troublesome one where I felt much better with the
> power off.  Many of the
> Federal Pacific breakers could not easily be tripped
> with a screwdriver
> grounding out the circuit.  I added a lot of GFI's,
> as I was not ready to
> change out the panel yet.
> 
> jack