u/Carcassfanivxx

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Give it to me straight.

Just a small switch change out in my workshop. 30 year old switch starting giving out so I changed the set. I’m experienced with residential and commercial electrical work, but never actually been on a crew.

We had a main contractor the company stuck with while I was metal building for about 11 years and we would occasionally get to stick around and help them, they followed behind after framing, so we knew them very well with occasional companies the customers would contract on their behalf. All were really good guys and extremely knowledgeable about electrical. The house contract crew could bend conduit like no tomorrow. Family business and the dad had 40 years under his belt. Could Read greenhouse thermostatic diagrams like they were comic books.

I took full hands on experience with residential during a few full builds, and remodeling anything up to full homes. I unfortunately don’t have my pics of the few panel boxes my former contractor let me wire up, I really enjoyed that part. But I did it all in between as far as the residential stuff went as well and loved it. 3 ways kinda took me a second to figure out, but It totally made sense after screwing up about 3-4 times. Haha.

I really enjoy electrical work. And I’m wondering by my work shown, what do you think I’d be worth if I showed this as example of my skill and experience. Don’t hold back, roasting is definitely on the table here.

Also, gotta love when they leave no slack and cut the ground to almost nothing after goin twisted sister inside the box. The Romex left is what I managed out of the wall and didn’t wanna sacrifice anymore if future problems may arise.

u/Carcassfanivxx — 4 days ago
▲ 513 r/Tools

Was given this masterlock electric wench for free with no power cord or controller. Dang near impossible to find the original controller for it too. So had to resort to rigging. Plan to make the cords longer in the future but it works incredible. 2,000 pound rating, no way I was pulling these by hand. They’ve Been in there for almost 25 years and it showed.

u/Carcassfanivxx — 18 days ago