On Mar 4, 1:53�pm, wrote:
On Mar 3, 9:33 pm, "gorehound" wrote:





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Hello all.

The past owners of the older home which I live in now had tried
'fixing' things throughout the house (most notoriously venting a
bathroom exhaust directly into a sealed attic space...*sigh*). *One of
these problems which I am now trying to undo involves them mismatching
the electrical breaker box and the panel that covers it.

The box itself takes some odd-looking, older toggle (push in, push
out) breakers, square in shape. *The panel cover has the knockouts
knocked-out for the newer, wide rectangular breakers.

I was warned when I purchased the house that this would have to be
fixed, *because it is dangerous--there is a major gap between the
actual little square breakers and the holes from the knockouts for the
other type of breaker.

Basically, my question is this: can I get *just* the panel for the
existing breaker box? *I'd rather do that if at all possible, instead
of incurring the additional expense of having to replace all of the
breakers to put in a totally new system.

Can anyone point me to a place where I can get just the cover? *BTW, I
can take pix, if that would help. *Thanks so much in advance!! *

I have an old push button box that I am replacing and I have the cover
still. If you are interested take a pic and I will take a pic and if it's
the same I'll mail it this week and you just have to pay shipping. I doubt
it will be the match, but if it is it's yours.

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Finally, here's a picture of the creature in question. *I think the
name of the installer, as written on the door, is not quite
accurate... *http://www.idcts.com/images/_newsgroup/P3040104.jpg

I'd be interested for sure in getting ahold of an actual replacement
cover if possible, but fabrication still sounds like a good option
too. *I'm wanting to address the overt safety issue now, and maybe
upgrade the whole box to 200 amp service later down the road.

I guess am not savvy enough to handle this task on my own, as I don't
know what an Edison circuit is, or how to bond a jumper.

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fabricate just some metal plates to cover the exposed wiring, then
upgrade service later.