BUILD THREAD JRP's '87 Regal Thread

[joesregalproject]

This cold is still beating me up, but like most of us I was off today and I can't cook my way out of a paper bag so I didn't have much to do.

I'm still really looking for a compressor.

I went down the basement and took a look at our breaker panel to make 100% certain that all of the breakers were indeed taken up. And they are, but at the bottom corner of the panel, what do I see?

A two pole 240V breaker! As you can see it is turned off. I followed the wire out of the panel and it powers the our A/C compressor. It's turned off because we are halfway through replacing the whole A/C system.

But I don't see why I couldn't splice into that circuit and put an outlet in the garage or mechanical/storage room to run 240V for a compressor. Obviously I probably wouldn't want to run the compressor at the same time as the A/C but the A/C is only on 5 months out of the year anyways and it's not like it runs continuously.

If it's possible to tap into that circuit it really opens up my options for a compressor.

 

[Turbo Zach]

If it was me. I would put a small sub panel in the garage and run my feed wires from the house panel. Then you could wire anything you wanted in the garage.

 

[joesregalproject]

If it was me. I would put a small sub panel in the garage and run my feed wires from the house panel. Then you could wire anything you wanted in the garage.

That's probably the right thing to do, but honestly I know just enough about this subject to be dangerous. I can wire up a light fixture or an outlet or switch, but beyond that I call an electrician. My cousin is an electrician, I'll talk to him and see what his thoughts are.

 

[TURNA]

That's probably the right thing to do, but honestly I know just enough about this subject to be dangerous. I can wire up a light fixture or an outlet or switch, but beyond that I call an electrician. My cousin is an electrician, I'll talk to him and see what his thoughts are.

Just make sure whatever compressor you get, it can be wired the same way as the AC since it will be on the same line

With or without a neutral

 

[Tomeal]

Check what is on some of the breakers and see if can condense down two of them to the mini breakers. That would free you up the space for a double pole

 

[joesregalproject]

Check what is on some of the breakers and see if can condense down two of them to the mini breakers. That would free you up the space for a double pole

I can almost guarantee you it's not laid out efficiently. I know for a fact some of these circuits only have maybe one or two outlets and a light or something like that on them. There is definitely a way to consolidate them to use less breakers. When my parents built the house (my mom and dad built it, it wasn't done by a builder) they used a bigger than necessary panel so that they could easily add things in the future. Well it's been about 20 years and we've added some outlets in places and lights and now they are all used up.

Again I know just enough about this stuff to get myself into trouble so its something I've got to get my cousin on.

 

[Supercharged111]

I used a knotted cup brush on my angle grinder to clean my truck frames. It blows the doors off of regular wire brushes. Also strips skin as quickly as rust. That and a big old Hobo Freight sandblaster.

 

[DRIVEN]

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[Texas82GP]

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Leave him alone. He has chickens to tend to! Just joking around Joe. You're doing better than me.

 

[DRIVEN]

Better than me too. That's why I need the inspiration.