The last house I lived in, someone had installed a 2" long galvanized pipe nipple in place of the fuse for the AC. I was not a happy camper when I found that out. (and that house was built in 1977)
Come on you still had the breaker in the main panel. That was someone that was keeping the ac going when it was too hot to drive to home depot.
Hey! Our old rent house has those fuses. Not hard to find, just a bit uncommon. It was built in 1920, and the only stuff we had go wrong in the six years we live there were things installed during the "renovation" (see: cheap ass flipping).
It’s not just home inspectors that I agree are worthless.
When I worked for an industrial manufacturing company, management applied for a Star inspection from OSHA. If the inspection passed, the company was exempted from inspection for 10 years I think it was.
They sent in college “safety inspector” students to do the audit from OSU that had never been in a manufacturing facility.
Our group of facilities maintenance folks to include licensed electricians, control systems specialist, and mechanical specialists, were estactic over the inspection coming up because we had been complaining about faulty and illegal electrical systems that were from the 50’s and not up to code.
Thought this might help us. Nope!
The college kids never opened a breaker panel or anything in the old part of the plant. They looked at guards, clearances on grinder wheels/rests and called it a day giving the company their Star rating after they came back to check to see if the guards and grinder issues were corrected.
We were pissed.
I worked at Southwestern Wire on Tecumseh and I-35 and it was an OSHA nightmare. Their engineers couldn't design a wet noodle with a pot of boiling water in front of them, failed OSHA inspection twice while I worked there (from July to the end of Nov in '99), had just two guys (me and my sup) who did maintenance for the whole drawing and galvanizing department (4 drawing lines and two galvanizing lines with up to 16 wires on one and 32 on the other). I and one other guy got moderate to severe zinc burns from poor safety requirements, saw several other dangerous situations, had no working exhaust fans for the galvanizing lines (not only vaporized zinc but sulfuric acid fumes and gas exhaust from the blast furnace). I spent two weeks converting chain driven fans to belt driven because one of the engineers thought chain was the way to go until it snapped the fan shafts from hard startups. The last OSHA inspection I was there only about 1/4 of the things were fixed but the inspector gave them a pass. I think some money was slipped from one hand to another.
You should see some of the stuff I see that has passed inspection. The inspectors breeze through in 15-20 minutes.
I don’t think any money slipped hands. I know the inspectors were not equipped or educated in the craft to inspect electrical systems in a 5 acre facility in one day involving over 200 machine tools.
It would have taken a crack trained crew weeks to do an adequate inspection of the electrical systems in our facility.
It didn’t hurt me a bit financially or intellectually to move to OG&E to spend the last half of my career knowing things were done right.
those are old school!!!
