75 bucks for the 50 ft cut length of 8/2 wire or 79 bucks for a 125ft roll

why why why

ooh, actually i could get a precut 50 foot roll for 70 bucks

why why why

8/2? WTH do you need 40 amp service for, man?

But buy the 125 and sell what you don't need on craigslist

part of the basement rewiring. it's the line to the electric range. Dudes who put boiler line to the first floor miniduct air handler (I bought a radiant coil insert for it so I could use the a/c system as aux heat when necessary) ran the 3/4" line and left existing range wire sitting right on it. It' charring a bit (cloth jacket). Will it be an issue? Probably not. But it's really old wire anyway and it's tacked to the bottom of the joists,and I want to get everything into thru holes. It's got a J-box between the main basement and kitchen crawl space, and I replaced the portion going from that box to the outlet when I was putting in the radiant floor tubes in the kitchen, so I only have to run from the panel to the J-box now.

Yeah I'd definitely feel more comfortable replacing the cloth jacket with romex, didn't realize you were rewiring all the panel connections too. You gonna have an electrician look over the panel when you're done?

Bucky is going to electrocute himself.

I always thought he was a well grounded individual, so he should be fine.

That's what happens when you have volted ceilings.

someone played the pokemon theme song on the jukebox at the bar last night. that was wild

WheelsFellOff wrote:Yeah I'd definitely feel more comfortable replacing the cloth jacket with romex, didn't realize you were rewiring all the panel connections too. You gonna have an electrician look over the panel when you're done?

Nah. Don't wanna sound like THAT GUY but I'm confident in my abilities here. In fact, an inspection was required for my COO when I added the conservatory and new sub-panel. The inspector came out and questioned why I had the grounds all on the neutral bar on one side and the neutrals all on the other side. I had to point out to him that I had also removed the bonding bar between the two sides because that's what you have to do on sub-panels as per NEC. He was like "oh, yeah, I never knew that".

Wheels Tupay wrote:Bucky is going to electrocute himself.

Would be the first time! I do admit that I take extra time working in the panel because of the exposed hot lugs.



you see those two large silver screws in the circle? They're where the wire from the street attaches to (thru the meter box). So they're exposed metal and charged 120v each with a LOT of amperage- i.e. no fuse or breaker between them and the transformer out on the pole. So when you're feeding long wires through there (especially a bare ground wire) you've got to be very careful to control the wire and not let it (or your fingers) touch there or you can have a new hairstyle, along with a world of hurt

slugsrbad wrote:I always thought he was a well grounded individual, so he should be fine.

See, now here's where you're wrong. (Chris Knight quote)

ReadingPhilly wrote:That's what happens when you have volted ceilings.

was thinking about doing that in the basement but the first floor ceilings are only 7' as it is

wonder how many phones get dropped in the toilet per day in this great country.

smdh every time I see someone walk into a porta pot phone in hand

The camera work on these outdoor hockey games are great.

is they now

That's what I said, bub

Slowhand wrote:The camera work on these outdoor hockey games are great.

there are some really cool angles

Outdoor pickup basketball season has officially started. And halter top day is right around the corner. What a time to be alive.

Changed the cigarette lighter fuse in my car and felt like a badass.


(Super easy but still a badass)

You should say you were wrestling a bear while doing it.

Next to me at the bar tonight was this woman who just interviewed for a job with my employer and didn't get it. Bout as awkward as you would expect.