Topic: Minor Rant: Breakers have gotten expensive!

[Sirgod]

Like Clock work, over the forth, my water well went out on me, turns out it was alot of dust around the points where the switch is (turns the pump on when the reservore get's too low).

Anyway, I also discovered that Besides the roof falling in because of all the rain, My old Breakers out there where getting old. Now the breakers are out of date, no longer made, so I thought, NP. I'll grab a cheap box, 1 dual 40 Breaker, and one single 40.

Of course not, Has to be special ordered, including the box, The double pole, will run around 30 bucks, the box 50, and the single 19.99.

That just blows me away, that they have gotten so expensive. Then again, I haven't had to anything like this since 95.

Stephen

[Nemesis]

Waaay back when I was a kid and lived on a farm we had a pump in the barn that we kept a heat lamp on to keep it from freezing.  Periodically a pinhole would burst in the hose right under the lamp and shoot straight at it and the glass would break from the temperature difference.  We were constantly replacing that lamp and hose.  I could never get my dad to suspend a piece of sheet metal between them.  It would have radiated the heat more broadly, keeping the pipe liquid and reducing the chance of the leak while saving the lamp if the hose did go.  But would he try it?  Noooo. 

More up to date.  My house still has fuses.  The fuse design has changed since the fuse box was set up and inside each socket is a blue plastic insert that helped keep the fuse in place, modern fuses don't fit with the insert in place and each time I blow a fuse that has one I have to pull the insert out.  They don't like to come out and were apparently not designed for it.  It is quite annoying.

[Sirgod]

I bet on those fuse inserts. To be honest, I only go out twice a year to the well house. Well maybe three times. At the start of winter and the start of spring, to turn the heater on. Have to get a new one this year, as with all the rain, and the roof knocking it over, I wouldn't trust it.

Only other time, is when the wife and her sis decide to can. Most of the time, they go into the storm cellar, but if there's alot, I'll put them in the well house.

Stephen