That outlet in the old warehouse took me 4 hours what a joke

I got called to swap out a single GFCI in a warehouse built in the 70s over near the rail yard. Figured 20 minutes tops but the box was packed with decades of dust and the old wires were so brittle the insulation just crumbled when I touched them. Ended up having to pull new wire back to the junction box because both the hot and neutral snapped clean off inside the wall. Has anyone else run into those old wire jobs that turn into a whole afternoon?

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eva_gibson8d ago

Did you happen to find a 1957 penny in there too, or was it just the crumbling wire insulation? Sounds about right for a "quick swap.

logan2637d ago

The real joke is that GFCI is probably tripping because the ground is floating somewhere in that old conduit. Those 70s metal boxes can turn into a wild ground loop nightmare that takes longer to troubleshoot than the actual wire swap.