[AT] Shop ceiling

[charlie hill]

Don, I replied to Larry before I read your comments below.  Now all I want 
to know is where I can get an immigration form for the Republic of the 
Ozarks?!!!!

Charlie

-----Original Message----- 
From: Don Bowen
Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2011 11:39 AM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
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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