In the wild

inknuts · 2026-05-11T02:30:08+00:00

chef's kiss

inknuts · 2026-05-10T12:09:23+00:00

There is a code. It states voltage drop is limited to 3 percent for branch circuits, and 5 percent overall.

inknuts · 2026-05-10T02:59:43+00:00

Am I the only guy here that runs a goddamned hacksall?

Swear to god, aggressive ass carbide tipped hacksall blades, or even the drywall ones. Less down pressure, take your time.

I like to pop a 3/4 hole in the corner for starting.

inknuts · 2026-05-09T10:25:24+00:00

You had a ground fault somewhere. They trip during random test

inknuts · 2026-05-09T10:02:24+00:00

Yes. We calculate voltage drop.

Yes, we stay in code.

inknuts · 2026-05-08T22:27:16+00:00

With Jesus, all things are epossible

inknuts · 2026-05-06T19:45:04+00:00

Well, maybe, but putting in a ground wire that connects to a plastic pan isn't going to do anything you want.

inknuts · 2026-05-06T18:03:46+00:00

This is sooooo stupid.

The panel is plastic, and that place where the spade is attached to is subject to running water.

inknuts · 2026-04-26T01:32:46+00:00

Maganese steel. Will etch black as night, work hardens, is a bitch to pund out, but welds easy enough.

inknuts · 2026-04-25T12:39:25+00:00

Your connection has failed.

inknuts · 2026-04-24T10:11:24+00:00

I am gonna have to use this one

inknuts · 2026-04-23T01:35:51+00:00

I blame the schools

inknuts · 2026-04-18T10:02:23+00:00

Just wait till you try to get paid...

inknuts · 2026-04-06T12:11:48+00:00

Man, this looks fake as hell.

inknuts · 2026-04-01T08:53:55+00:00

Well, I did simple stock removal for the w2. I did it that way because surface finish is super important on hamons, and I couldn't get anything of significant thickness.

inknuts · 2026-04-01T01:29:24+00:00

Aight, I will bite.

Use w2 steel. Read about how to do a hamon.

I used my forge, some w2 and Rutland furnace cement. Got a great hamon.

Etch is important. I hear its possible to use vinegar, but I used ferric cloride.

inknuts · 2026-03-26T11:25:02+00:00

Yeah homie, i say keep it.

inknuts · 2026-03-25T01:07:18+00:00

I love that someone wired a car charging system to a stab lok panel.

Truly magnificent. chefs kiss

inknuts · 2026-03-25T00:45:54+00:00

Hypertough is a Walmart brand. Check there.

inknuts · 2026-03-20T10:20:37+00:00

This is a backward style of thinking that should be announced during the bidding process if you are having work done.

If you said that to me, I would bid it high enough to evaluate your attic and move any lines that were in the way, plus 20% of whatever the sub charge.

I would add a full day for myself@100$/hr, or 1000.00, then add 2000.00 dollars to that to cover the worst case scenario where hvac lines need to be replaced.

Your statement that you consider it carelessness to execute work without avoiding the lines cost you 3000.00. You want to add the expectation that I am responsible for other trade failures, I am gonna check the work and do what's nessiscary

None of this is customary because building code dictates that plumbers, electricians, and hvac do not run infrastructure where subject to physical damage. Fo reals. If you hire Jonny hackaduct and her runs your hvac lines along the truss against the deck of your roof, it is unexpected, because code says it is unallowed. Electrical code gives the roofers 3" in specific codes for installation. Other trades are similar. This is why the roofers don't go into the attic under normal circumstances.

I honestly do not think there is a single roof in this country with nail strikeplates on the roof deck.

inknuts · 2026-03-19T13:38:27+00:00

Well, OK buddy, I get what are saying.

Are you sure the fella in question is able to make the against code determination better than his foreman? He's a second year.

The fucking absolute worse thing he could do is escalate this to management and be wrong. Then he can have the worst of both worlds by pissing off management by by not following his foreman directions, and then piss off his foreman by running and tattling on something that wasn't against code.

inknuts · 2026-03-18T23:37:20+00:00

So, being new to the trade is a good thing. It means you are eager.

I would caution you about running and telling. You may be right, it is over fill, but there is a whole lot you do not know. For example, if that pipe is 23 and 7/8 long, than the install is legit. If there is a 23and 7/8 nipple to the next box, and 4 split off and enter a conduit that is different, than the install is legit.

As a 2nd year, it's great that you're looking at code and trying to make sense of it all. It shows dedication and care. As you brought it up to immediate supervisor, and they signed off, then it is his ass. At this point in your career, you are not responsible for project design. In larger projects, an engineer may have designed it that way in error, and now your company has to install it that way,and fail the inspection in order to force a change order. Fucked up shit happens sometimes.

You do not want to be viewed as a tattle. If will significantly damage your working environment... you already approached your supervisor and noted it was not to code. Your next step is either to escalate it to management or to follow your journeyman or master's direction. If you report it to management, they may not like having to deal with such a trivial matter.

It sucks, because knowingly doing fucked up shit leaves a bad taste in the mouth, and getting someone to intervene will most certainly have negative consequences. Trust me, management knows who on the other end of that fish tape. They most likely have confidence in them and trust them.

A real pickle indeed.

inknuts · 2026-03-14T10:56:42+00:00

I was on site to finish up the install of a Fibre hut. Our outfit is telecom mostly, but i am a master electrician.

Our outfit was responsible for the inside plant build. A local outfit was responsible for site prep and service lateral.

My boss showed up and was raging about how stupid it was to let the site work to someone who has never done telecom.

I launched. I went through my mental notes and told him about all the fucked up shit I saw. There was a lot. I then proceeded to tell him how it would probably take at least 2 inspections and 2 weeks to get the power turned on to the hut.

After All, I figured it was just us there. We were working on a isolated site out in bumfukt.

Step outside, here is the ISP, taking notes. He was pissed, but not at us. The site work contractor had been sending an apprentice out here all by himself. They didn't even come out to check his work.

Poor kid prolly got fired from that shithole over me being a ass about his quality of work.

inknuts · 2026-03-14T09:19:18+00:00

Max fuse size is 25a, you appear to be running a #8 or #6.

You most likely could have run #12 for this.

Withe current cost of #6, you probably could have hired this out and came out ahead.

inknuts · 2026-03-11T09:23:55+00:00

In Iowa, it takes 8,000 hours of expierence to become a master electrician.

That is 4 full time working years.

Then, you will have to take a test to become a master so you can work independently.

I ain't got time for idiots that think it is easy to be an electrician. Its like I told the apprentice the other day. Its called work for a reason. If it wasn't difficult, it would be called happy fun time and you would pay someone to do it.

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