Editor's Note: We're a few weeks behind these days. Current events and older events are getting posted at about the same time. So if you're trying to reconstruct an accurate chronology of my life... um... sorry...?
If you've been following this blog for a while, you know I've been trying to get an old air compressor running in my shed. (More on that here and here.) The latest wrinkle in what was supposed to be a straightforward project was that the shed wiring and breaker box really couldn't handle the pull of the new motor. To be perfectly honest, the shed wiring wasn't really good for much of anything...
The wire running from the house to the shed. Eek.
The seriously outdated and under-rated fuse box in the shed. Double eek.
A closeup of the wiring. Eek, eek, eek.
So, while they were visiting, my father-in law helped me fix all those things and more. (Some of them even needed fixing!) The whole thing took about a day and a half and a few hundred bucks (good wire isn't cheap...) but finally, we had...
Grounded 10-gauge wire, protected by weather-resistant piping...
...that looked a lot better than the previous wire, to boot...
...a proper breaker box with properly-rated breakers...
...and after all this time, a quiet, powerful, all-weather air compressor! Yeah!
So all in all, I lost a fire hazard and gained a good tool. Not a bad deal!
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