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Philip d

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Here?s some pictures of my booth at trade school. I finished
tying in the panel today as well but didn?t take a picture of it to
get it. Hopefully I?ll be able to rewrire the tractor shed when I
graduate.
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Nice work. My daughter has her own electrical company and that type of work is common fair. She specializes in commercial/industrial applications - very proud of her. As an aside, my son works for her after his tech inspection job in the 'oil patch' was 'downsized' - along with automotive technician, oil equipment inspector technician, he is now an apprentice electrician - many different hats. Proud of both. ;^)
 
Good work!

I kinda like running the small stuff, a chance to get creative! LOL

I've got an ancient electricians hand book somewhere around here.

It shows how to bend concentric radius runs, each radius progressively larger so they parallel through the turns.

Except they didn't have EMT, it was all rigid black pipe, and no benders! It was done with whatever was available, truck bumpers, tree forks, between wall studs...

They didn't have much to work with, but made up for it with talent! Beautiful job when done!

Oh the good ol' days!
 
Thank you, it?s amazing seeing the beautiful work that was done years ago with primitive tools, pure craftsmanship. I might get a picture of the panel tomorrow,I stole an idea from a fellow classmate on the panel. When he was finished he zip tied the wires running down both sides of the panel, extremely neat job.
 
Looks good Philip.
When I bought my house and was adding on to it previous owner had had the elec service updated but whoever did it had drilled holes in all the joists to run romex across the joists in the basement. It was safe and met code but sure looked crude.
I stripped it all out - every inch of it -
and started over. Ran it all in thinwall to #1900 boxes here and there then romex out of those to complete the circuits as needed.
Took my time and did a neat job of it.
It looks So much better than it did with a couple runs of 3/4" conduit across the bottoms of the joists. When the inspector came to give me the final on the addition he asked, "Who did all this?"
I kinda blinked as I hadn't pulled permits to do it and told him the wiring was a real rats nest down there so I "revamped" it a little.
He said, "Nice work." and put the sticker on the breaker panel.
I enjoy running thinwall.
One thing I learned from my dad about wiring in general is to do a clean job of it. He always would say, "Neatness Counts!"
Keep learning - and posting. I enjoy your updates.
You will have a good, high paying trade when you finish that school.
 
When I was a kid dad built a new dairy barn and had an electrician wire it with conduit. The electrician was a stout fellow and bent all the conduit by placing it across his knee and pulling. Some of it looked a little crude but it got the job done.
 

I would hire you! when I built my shop building I needed it to go up in one month of buying the property so that I could have the rent check to help pay the mortgage. I was my own GC, and my friend that I hired to wire it commented that I could have saved a lot if I had him come in and prewire instead of putting it in pipe. I told him that I needed it closed in and that getting the wiring done while we moved in was better than waiting four more days for the scheduling of the insulators and drywallers.
 
Basically all you do is use a wire pulling string rated for high tension and tie part of a plastic bag on it. Stuff it in the end of the conduit and on the other end use a rag to close off the vacuum loss then with help feeding the string by hand it will hopefully suck it through.
 
Thank you all,we powered it up this morning,everything worked as it was supposed to and I got 90 out of a possible 90 marks.
 
Yes, zip tie everything.

Also use your needle nose to make square bends on the wires. Takes some practice but it results in some professional looking work.

I wired a Jim Walters house for a friend years ago. Wired the panel like that, every wire squared off, zip tied, everything labeled. The insurance inspector was there looking at it, was asking for the electricians name. This was out of city limits, so no permits. Told him we wired it. He said normally they required a licensed electrician, but in this case he would wave that. Said he never seen anything like it!
 
That?s a funny story and so true, sometimes some people can get in a hurry and not see the point in taking that extra 10 minutes to make a good panel stand out. I?ve seen some really good panels around our own farm and on my travels that were done right but a little more attention to detail would have given it a bit of wow factor.
 
Have your level in pics to show that you have the runs level or plumb. That's also an indicator of craftsmanship too. One of the electricians that worked for me in the past often "eye-balled" for level or plumb. His runs never looked as nice as what my other guys did.
 
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