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    Improvisational Pan & Drainage Project

    Good Day, Background: My main goal is to place tile in the shower area as shown in the image below. The reason for this is because the pre-made plastic platform did not fit with my drain hole so the only option is to lay everything with tile which I do not mind doing. The Problem: I need your...
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    Nutcracker fiasco

    Good Day, I need advice on repairing my wooden nutcracker (photos attached). During New Year’s celebration nutcracker could not handle excessive use and cracked right in the middle. Does anyone have any ideas on how to best repair it? I don’t want to purchase a new one.
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    Cannibalizing 240V Circuit

    Good Day, I need your help and advise regarding installation of a 20A, HTB series fuse holder (with fuse) inside of a box. The project will be done in a residential home, 240/120V, in the United States. Scope of Application: I have a NEMA 10-30R receptacle in one of my bathrooms for what...
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    Circuit replacement [15A to 20A]

    Good Day, Looking at my circuit breaker panel (attached) I have 180A capacity on left leg and 170A on the right leg. If I decide to hire an electrician to replace my entire circuit #2 with a 20A capacity circuit, is that something that is feasible considering the already uneven currents on both...
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    Unbalanced amperage

    Hello experts! I have a question about my circuit breaker panel. Could someone tell me why exactly the smarter than me individual(s) decided to put 180A on the left leg (sum of all circuit breakers) and 170A on the right leg? Would this be an unbalanced situation and overload the neutral...
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    House Neutral

    Good Day, I have a question regarding the neutral white wire in house wiring. Is it allowed to use a hot and a neutral from two different circuits? In other words, I want to connect a 15A receptacle to the hot black wire used in the network of two 3-way switches. Next, I was planning to grab a...
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    Residential circuit problems [receptacles/breakers]

    Good day experts. I need your help with several issues with my home circuitry: Intermittent power coming through cable to my bathroom receptacle. The situation is as follows: in the subject bathroom I gained access to the receptacle and disconnected all pigtail wires. Next, I left connected...
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