Sage Jackson (u/jackson.sage)

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Just finished my first solo 400 amp service upgrade

Two years back, I was still helping my old lead, Mike, on these jobs and my wire pulls were a real mess. Now, after doing a few on my own, I finally got the feeder runs in a house in Cedar Falls to lay flat and neat in the gutter. What's your go-to trick for keeping big parallel conductors from twisting up?

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jackson.sage•3mo ago

That time a customer brought in a 'muzzleloader' that was just a piece of pipe and a nail

Guy walks into my shop in Boise last Tuesday with this rusty piece of 3/4 inch pipe and a bent nail, swears it's his grandpa's old flintlock. He wanted me to 'restore' it and make it fire. I had to keep a straight face while explaining the whole thing was just scrap metal, not a gun. The best part was he got mad and said, 'Well, it worked in 1972!' I ended up showing him a real percussion cap rifle from the back to compare. Has anyone else had a client bring in something so wild they thought it was a real firearm?

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