u/TypeLCopper

It looks like steel flexible conduit on the inside with a rubber or plastic coating.

Has anyone tried to scrap this kind of conduit before?

I'm not really worried about getting money for it, I'm just trying to keep it out of the landfill.

My detached garage has an old 60 amp fuse box being used as a sub panel. I suspect it was the main panel in my house before the previous owners upgraded the service to 100 amps and a breaker panel. The house was built in 1958, but I am not sure when the service was upgraded.

The feeders to this panel are run underground through rigid conduit then through that partially painted flexible conduit. The placement is already a little awkward since there is no straight line for the feeders into the panel. You always have to go around that corner. There is also no grounding conductor for the feeders. Just 2 hots and 1 neutral.

I was thinking about replacing the fuse box with a modern breaker panel in the same spot, using the existing feeders. Then I started thinking, would I be wasting my time and money doing that? Would a home inspector flag that if they saw it? Would I be better off just running new 4 wire feeders and moving the load center to a less awkward location? Just curious what actual electricians think is the better decision and the rationale for it.

My house was built in 1958 and has a mix of original 2 wire ungrounded circuits and some modern grounded ones. The service was updated to 100 amps at some point before we bought the house.

In my basement shower, I see what appears to be a black cloth wrapped neutral conductor coming down from the floor joists below my kitchen, attached to a piece of EMT, then attached to one of my water pipes. The cable that is all white going in to the junction box is NM being used for a switch leg.

Was this some form of bonding done back in the 1950s? We've never had any issues with it, but I'm trying to understand if this was a common practice back then or if I have some weird homeowner DIY bonding/grounding. I've discovered a lot of sketchy DIY electrical stuff in my house over the years and I'm trying to understand it and fix it as I find it.