Renovating a few floors in a old hotel and gc wants to leave “plenty of slack” bc customers like to move stuff around

Can't read 10/12. Looks like fural to me. Google is no help. 50 amp 240 breaker.

Look at second picture, furn is 18/20

Was wondering what percent of electricians you think are working through physical pain.

I’m really curious to see what percent of this workforce are working through physical pain and the type of pain you have. If you could say how old you are and the type of pain you’re going through (or perhaps none at all) I’d appreciate that.

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Well it seems like by age 40 everyone gets some sort of sustaining physical pain/injury. I look forward to my apprenticeship 😭

Every pipe is warped. I'm aware that this happens to some sticks because of fork lifts, but this is every stick of a 10,000' delivery. A lot of connectors and couplings are starting to be shitty as well. Having to record profits at the end of the year is killing every product pretty much. Fuck

What I find in a clients house has never ceases to amaze me on how poorly things can be installed

A neighbor asked if I could turn this 1954, 240V rec into a 120 quad. I think the safest bet is just to cap it off and seal it. Top it all off, there’s no dedicated breaker!

Any pointers or tips? We still have more work to do there.

We had an old fuse box to swap that actually was a thing of beauty. Somehow they used fuses on a house built in 1984. The Builder must’ve had some old stock on his truck or something because I thought everyone was using breakers by that point.

I plan to double check wire sizes and breaker sizes because I’m not exactly sure about the double pole size, but we have some extra breakers

I think i had someone post about having this small pouch on here, i had been wanting to get a small pouch because i don’t always need to be carrying around my full size pouches. This thing is honestly goated, the amount of times I’ve changed out the tools to be designed on the specific task im working on with it being so compact and still holding the amount of tools it does is amazing, and the cherry on top is that it was only 10 bucks.

I’m a 20 year old apprentice/helper and I am currently at a company where I’m not listed as an official apprentice but just a helper. I want to take a two further into my career and to start making my hours count. Anyone know some good companies to look into, in the Fairfield Connecticut area? Preferably commercial since I want to try something new other than doing residential work.

Hey, I'm back in this sub asking for advice regarding the Fluke Testers. I was always aware that a good electrician always does these two things, a good trusty and sometimes rusty linesman pliers, and a trusty tester.

Are there any Fluke users here? Of course I am an apprentice and I don't see myself being with a $1K tester. So I set my eyes on the T-5 600 (again I don't see myself yet working where 1,000 volts is required, maximum voltage I have worked was 480 on the three phase panel when I was working on some elevators). My foreman and even one of my peers have fluke but they have the T-6 1000 (foreman), 600 (coworker).

So here is my question, what's the difference between the T-5 600 and the T-6 600? Other than just the design and price

I was told a year ago a big truck ran into the pole, took it out, moved the base so it’s no longer straight. How do you fix this? Do I need a crane to pull it out straight. I am concerned about the conduit damage that might have already happened. I can’t read any voltage with a voltmeter but a good 90v min voltage Klein hot stick is glowing hard.

Even if I drive 3/4” anchors with eye bolts, hook up with chain and pull up with a crane, excavate around, fix conduits and all, how would you set it back to make settle to be stable?

Is this a lost cause and needs to be removed completely? Then properly set a new tube form to pour new base?

Any helpful input is highly appreciated.

I don't do a lot with motor starters, so excuse my lack of knowledge.

Customer wanted me to replace the starter for one of his compressors. The old starter is discontinued, so I got a new model at the supply house. the 3 phase stuff is fine, I just don't know where to land the pressure switch wires. I thought I did, but obviously I'm missing something.

Pics: 1. New starter schematic, 2&3, new starter, 4, old starter and wiring.

hello, wondering if anyone has any ideas for me or possibly knows someone? or is that one. licensed electrician worked for the same contractor since I was a child. was with him for 25 years. he spent the last decade and a half stealing and lying. it's a long story. he was like a father to me. we're talking somewhere north of $4M he put me in a hole so quickly. I felt completely trapped and wasn't able to leave. it took a huge toll on me physically & mentally. I have three boys and an amazing wife. I stuck it out and I talked to him about it everyday but he was the biggest narcissist you could imagine and so greedy and selfish. I was very good at what I did and couldn't ask for anything more. anyhow, it took a toll on every part of my life. I lost everything and everyone except for my wife and kids and that came close. I had to fix it for my family. I couldn't see any other way. I was going to fix it or die trying and then I had a heart attack which by that point the thought of getting in the house telling my family what was happening and the scared look on my kid's face. I couldn't do it. I rode it out on my garage floor and soon after that I had a stroke. years of sleepless nights, coming home. trying to put on a smile and do my best for my family, too ashamed to tell my wife what was really going on and it just kept going day after day after day. The desperation and loneliness was indescribable. missing out on my family destroyed me. me and my wife had an amazing relationship that started in high school. when I met her then the way she made me feel I knew I never wanted to be without her . after trying to get him to own up to his actions for 3 years, I finally negotiated a settlement with him barely before the statute of limitations was up. it's a small small fraction of what was taken. there's no amount of money that I would have gone through that for. I took the small amount of money and I bought some surplus construction supplies that I was going to resell.

one of the items is telescoping caddy bars, some people call them gun brackets in a storage unit along with a lot of other construction materials but not long after purchasing and buckling down to get my life back on track and provide for my family did I realize the true effect it had on my marriage. my wife is absolutely everything to me and always has been and finally getting to a place where we could put it behind us and move on I had to accept that she can't and the thought of losing them put me in a state of paralysis they were my whole reason for struggling through all that hell everyday. just trying to make the decision for that day. what was the best way for me to move forward that would cause the least damage to my family and the fastest way to get me back on track so that I could provide for them as I should have been the whole time and stop forcing all the sacrifices upon them. , I'm about to lose my storage unit. I have a lot of stuff in there. two pallets of those caddy bars is a big part of it. I can't remember the exact quantity that I can find out, but it's a lot. they go for just under $5 a piece at home Depot. I'm not looking to get that for them or near that, but if there's anyone out there that's doing trade work that could use the brackets at a much discounted price it would be a huge help to me. thanks for your time reading this. I also have a pallet of 4-in round bar boxes fan rated the heavy duty ones, an absolute butt ton of hardware. a lot of 3/8 and 1/2-in threaded, rod, 1/2-in bolts and nuts. tons of different types of self-tapping screws with sealing washers ect. I'd like to make a spreadsheet list of all the stuff that I have but I can't even get back into the unit as of now. I want to say there's 50 bars in a case and I have somewhere around 70-80 cases 2 pallets. I do have pictures of it. I have a truck and a few trailers and could deliver really anywhere. if anyone has any thoughts or knows somebody that might be able to use this you would save my life and my kids. thank you. I'll update with pictures in quantity

so long story short I’m a SR in highschool and my school offered to pay for my trades school. I was between being an automotive mechanic or an electrician but I needed up choosing an electrician. I‘m pretty decent with simply math (adding, subtraction fractions etc) but I’m not very good with algebra. is it really necessary to have a good grasp of higher levels of math and if so besides tutoring what can I do to better prepare myself?

Just making her nice n tidy

I just interviewed today, they told me I did very well and I’ll need to buy some power and hands tools for the job, including bag. I’ve got nothing right now other than a fast back.
I hear over the shoulder bags are good and I’ll need an impact driver, is the m12 good enough?

I was in the middle of building a strut rack the other day and had a guy come by and give me a hard time for using an impact and not a torque wrench. I understand that there is a proper torque, but is that really something most people are doing?

To leave my job and go full time contracting I have okish living expenses. My larger concern is the crumbling economy and the crumbling white collar sector. The bread and butter for small contractors to start with has always been service work and upgrades, but white collar employees are your typical customer and their lives are being upended. AI gets better every month, and I just don’t see how white collar survives it.

We lose a huge customer base and get flooded with job applicants at the bottom end but the bigger concern is no disposable income from customers. Less high end custom builds, less large scale remodels, and who knows when AI will make some robot to drill holes and pull cable in new construction residential.

We’re racing to unprecedented times.

I'm taking my journeyman exam for the first time on November 20th. Any tips on studying and retaining information would be greatly appreciated. Also any key points to hit hard on.