The original one may be on the inside of the door. But If not and you feel comfortable looking, there is normally a model number on a sticker inside which is usually on the inside side of the enclosure. Some of the stickers give information about wire size range for various lugs but one sticker should have the enclosure manufacturer name and model number on it. Looked through my phone and didn't find a good recent jobsite pic but in this recent one I was working on you can just make out a sticker on the inside left side of the left enclosure and one on the right inside of the right most one if you blow it up.
While looking in my phone I found this pic of a jewel I discovered one day in an old part of town. It might look like a light socket but it isn't. It is a receptacle that predates modern receptacles and it had a flip cover on it originally. Darned thing is it was still powered up.
Here is a pic of a vintage toaster that would have been used with it.
Here is a pic of a vintage toaster that would have been used with it.
When I first got my hands on it the mod had never been fried yet so the cells (2 of them) were above 4.1.
After he used it for a while and dropped the voltage down the mod charged to 4.1. I don't know if he got it balanced yet.
Oh yeah of course. I've replaced a breaker before... I had to in the last place I was in roommate ordered a 30a dryer & had a 50a breaker.
Is that an Edison screw? like a light bulb?While looking in my phone I found this pic of a jewel I discovered one day in an old part of town. It might look like a light socket but it isn't. It is a receptacle that predates modern receptacles and it had a flip cover on it originally. Darned thing is it was still powered up.
Here is a pic of a vintage toaster that would have been used with it.
Would this be it? There was 2 stickers over it I had to peel one off & stick it elsewhere.
Also, would this be the same as the other breaker in my old house where I replaced the 50a w/ 30a for the dryer, where you can just take off the frame/door & the rest of it stays put?
I can't really tell by looking at it but it has some inner screws which the other one didn't have.
Thing is a pita to get open, it's right in my hallway so I had to paint it again, opening it up peels off the paint. It's one of those things I wish I had dealt with myself but I was putting up crown molding & basically all I did was that & the caulking, my gf painted most of the edges & trim in a hurry bc we were paying now mortgage & rent at the same time for the other place we were moving from, so we found some people to quickly paint the rest of the open spaces, so we missed some stuff but they literally painted this thing shut. It was already painted so I get why they did it but still, pita.
It's looking much better though I painted a bunch of the spots that have been bugging me like fixing some funky edges & painting trim that didn't get painted, & spots that only got one coat where the funky colors still shied... like the windows which were a pain bc I had to take off the blinds & lay them on the floor while the paint dried.
Also, would this be the same as the other breaker in my old house where I replaced the 50a w/ 30a for the dryer, where you can just take off the frame/door & the rest of it stays put?
I can't really tell by looking at it but it has some inner screws which the other one didn't have.
Thing is a pita to get open, it's right in my hallway so I had to paint it again, opening it up peels off the paint. It's one of those things I wish I had dealt with myself but I was putting up crown molding & basically all I did was that & the caulking, my gf painted most of the edges & trim in a hurry bc we were paying now mortgage & rent at the same time for the other place we were moving from, so we found some people to quickly paint the rest of the open spaces, so we missed some stuff but they literally painted this thing shut. It was already painted so I get why they did it but still, pita.
It's looking much better though I painted a bunch of the spots that have been bugging me like fixing some funky edges & painting trim that didn't get painted, & spots that only got one coat where the funky colors still shied... like the windows which were a pain bc I had to take off the blinds & lay them on the floor while the paint dried.
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Would this be it? There was 2 stickers over it I had to peel one off & stick it elsewhere.
Also, would this be the same as the other breaker in my old house where I replaced the 50a w/ 30a for the dryer, where you can just take off the frame/door & the rest of it stays put?
I can't really tell by looking at it but it has some inner screws which the other one didn't have
Yep, g1624ml1125 is the model number. Now get some goo-gone, paint stripper, laquer thinner or sandpaper and clean up the old panel because the likelihood of finding a replacement panel is very slim.
have you looked on top of your doors? it was amazing how much bare wood i found when moving in years ago
but maybe painters have overcome some of their bad habits since then
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have you looked on top of your doors? it was amazing how much bare wood i found when moving in years ago
I still see it, painters will be painters. Drywall finishers are notorious for taking shortcuts too. I had one ask if crown moulding was going to be installed in a house I was building, I asked why (because the answer was yes), he said he doesn't tape and float the wall-to-ceiling joints if crown moulding is to be installed because mold can grow if it's sealed off with tape and float. My reply? "Nope, no crown moulding is going in this house".
Yup. Mundy called it. Siemens.
Yup. The door and the frame it's attached to should come right off.
Our cabin is like that. Whoever last painted the inside painted right over all the light switches, outlets, cover plates, and even the smoke detectors. This annoys me to no end. You just don't do that! Thankfully the breaker panel is in a closet and they didn't paint in there.
Same here. The only thing not painted in our place when we moved in was ... around the 2 china cabinets in the dining room.
Yup. I didn't notice they were painted over until the infernal "I need a new battery" chirping started on one of them. They're hard-wired, so no, I do not replace the batteries until they actually complain that the installed one is shot. But the detectors were past their prime anyway, having been installed when the place was built in 2003.
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Twice today I've been ready to check out at Alien Visions with a bottle of Boba's Bounty (been back for a couple months) but I can't get past their price vs my DIY price.
I learned something a couple of weeks ago about smoke detectors.
Mine have all turned yellow, like a smoker's house and we have never smoked in here.
So, I googled it.
Seems they are designed to turn yellow so you will replace them.
The ones in our cabin were definitely painted over. But it wasn't terribly obvious until I pulled them down to replace the batteries. And they're marked: "Do not paint!"
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