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Default Sourcing old/obsolete breakers?

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On 10/20/2019 3:51 PM, Dave Garrett wrote:
In article ,
says...

Anyone know of a source for old/obsolete breakers? One of the breakers
in the panel at my parents' house failed. It's a circa-1964 Square D
panel, model QO-8R0, and the breaker is a 15A 120/240 twin/tandem one.

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Thanks to all for the feedback. I realize my description wasn't the
best, so to clarify I've uploaded a couple of pics of the panel to
Flickr. The breaker that failed is the one in the #2 slot.

https://flic.kr/p/2hxTNy4

https://flic.kr/p/2hxTNx7


What's on the circuit? Somebody forgot to label the panel (with the
exception of the scrawled AC on the cover).

Is it feeding 240V or two 120V circuits? I notice only one side is
tripped/off.


It's two 120V circuits, AFAIK. My father's office is on the one that was
affected by the breaker failure, and that's the room that his modem,
router and computers are in, so he hasn't had internet access since this
happened.

Now that I know that we don't have to go chasing down a 50-year-old
replacement breaker, we should be able to get things operational again
fairly quickly.

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Dave