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Subject:Re: 110 VAC circuit breaker guard, was Re: Is anybody still on this list?
From:Stuart MacMillan
Date:Fri, 20 Mar 2015 10:50:18 -0700

Not a bad idea.  I'm just afraid that something (firewood) or someone's foot
is going to break off that toggle soon. And there goes another $35.  I'm
thinking of making a guard out of a piece of 1/2 copper pipe and cap with a
hole drilled in it.  I'll paint it fluorescent red.

Stuart

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Subject: 110 VAC circuit breaker guard, was Re: Is anybody still on this
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At 08:54 PM 3/13/2015, Stuart MacMillan wrote:
>Thanks for the effort on the circuit breaker protector.  You can skip
>the knurling, just turn one on a lathe out of aluminum rod stock.  But
>I may be the only person on the planet who needs one!
>
>Stuart

I carved out two openings in the sides of my stock one on the '84 to allow
me to switch it off by hand if necessary without having to get a bent
paperclip behind it.

Yrs,
d