[AT] Shop ceiling

[Larry Goss]

ROTFLMAO!  I figured things might be different where you live, Don, that's why I worded my response the way I did.  We have a "local situation" here in Evansville that makes all electrical wiring suspect.  This coming week is the annual Westside Nut Club Fall Festival.  It has been advertised as the second largeest street festival in the country -- second only to Mardi Gras.  There are nearly 150 food booths lining several blocks of West Franklin steet, and all of them have to be inspected electrically and by the health department between setup at noon this Sunday, and opening time at 10:00 AM on Monday.  The bottom line is that there is a lot of carry over between the activities for the fall festival and ordinary compliance with NEC.  I hear you loud and clear on no clamping, lack of ground wire, and other items that most of us pay no attention to.  Ah well.  That's the way it goes.

Larry


----- Original Message -----
From: "Don Bowen" <don.bowen at earthlink.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2011 10:39:42 AM
Subject: Re: [AT] Shop ceiling

On 9/28/2011 10:09 AM, Larry Goss wrote:
> I don't know what regulations you are having to follow in your area, Don, but where I live, if it is done by the owner or a non-journeyman electrician, all the wiring must be completed BEFORE it is covered up by wall board, etc.   Otherwise, it doesn't get inspected, and your addition does not get connected.

Inspection? What is an inspection?  We don't need no stinkn inspectors.

There are no building codes or permits here in the Ozarks.  That was 
painfully obvious when I started these projects a year ago.  The first 
step was to get additional power to the garage for use as a temporary 
shop.  The back half of the garage was used as an office by the judge we 
bought from.  The sub panel was not grounded as a start.  There were no 
clamps on any wire into the panel, just plastic insulation pressing 
against sharp edges of the knockout holes.  I had to pull the panel, 
drive ground rods, pull every wire from the panel and add a clamp.  
Whoever wired the ceiling fan switched neutral rather than hot.  That is 
now fixed.

In the shop not one ground wire was connected in the outlets and there 
were no ground rods.  Luckly they just shoved the bare wire into the box 
and not cut it off so it was easy to fix that problem plus I drove two 
ground rods.

I do believe my wiring is much better than that.

-- 
Don Bowen           KI6DIU
http://www.braingarage.com/Dons/Travels/journal/Journal.html

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