On Wed, 19 Oct 2016 18:44:16 -0400, Ed Pawlowski wrote:

On 10/19/2016 4:12 PM, wrote:
On Wed, 19 Oct 2016 15:04:25 -0400, slate_leeper
wrote:
It does not fit
tightly, and if it is a little off-center then there is also a gap. I
have seen this happen because the meter readers are not careful in
replacing it.

Have a machine shop cut a piece of similar metal that DOES fit.
Then cut some foam insulation (like that pink stuff used on walls), that
fits fairly tight, under the lid, and glue it to a piece of treated 1/2"
plywood. Install a handle to it, so the meter readers can easily lift it
out.

Meter reader? Most meters are read by a guy driving down the street
getting information from a transponder. In 35 years, only once has
anyone been in my house and that was to install the transponder.


This is rural east Tennessee. We only got remote-reading electric
meters about five years ago. Water department has not caught up.

-dan z-