Removing an old "A" base Electrical meter

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  @Bobsdecline · 4 years ago · pinned

  Hey Everyone! Hope you&apos;re all having a great weekend &nbsp;🚴🎾<br><br>⚠️ First off... The power meter is absolutely not to be touched by anyone other then a representative from your power company whom is both trained and authorized to do so. <br>😳Secondly, that is not a booger... it&apos;s a grey nose hair 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️ and I&apos;m fully prepared to accept the consequences in the comment section 😨lol, &nbsp;I guess I&apos;ll have to fire my makeup artist and production crew 🤣🤣🤷‍♂️<br><br>Cheers all! Be safe out there 👊👊🍻

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• RO

  @robertmoore254 · 4 years ago

  During my career as an electrician my hobby was collecting old A-base meters. I made table lamps out of the newer, less collectable ones and displayed the older ones. I have over 50 meters with some going back to the early 1900&apos;s. I like taking them apart and seeing how there built and putting them back together again.

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• SW

  @swagmaster826 · 4 years ago

  That extendo stick cam was sick!

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• UZ

  @uzaiyaro · 4 years ago

  Yeah, here in Australia, if you go far enough out, you don’t get 240v local service at all. Each house or whatnot has its own step down transformer, usually 11kV. If you get REALLY far out, you can have SWER-single wire earth return. It’s literally a single live wire, consisting of fencing wire, and your neutral is earth. A single wire, and that’s it!

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• RM

  @RMartin631 · 1 year ago

  There was a wasp that came out looking around when you were talking about there being no wasps in the box. &quot;Hey, who&apos;s poking around in my winter home? I&apos;m hibernating until Spring.&quot;

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• SU

  @superman60201 · 4 years ago

  Youtube is giving people the skill to perform their jobs with one hand. Impressive.

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• JE

  @jeffleduc1398 · 4 years ago

  Excellent GoPro on the end of the long stick

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• ST

  @stargazer7644 · 3 years ago

  54659 is the meter reading at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKkSWdo7s4Q&amp;t=227">3:47</a>

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• RA

  @random832 · 3 years ago

  I think this is the first video that I&apos;ve seen you attach the camera to the hot stick, that&apos;s a nice way to get an up close look at what is going on - not like you haven&apos;t opened cutouts a million times before, but this is the first one that really gets across how hard you have to pull to get it to let go.

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• MR

  @MrPLC999 · 4 years ago (edited)

  This kind of work reminds me of the days back in the 70&apos;s when I did telephone repair in Manhattan for New York Telephone. We did not have trucks in mid-town. We carried a heavy tool bag from job to job. There were supply rooms sprinkled around the town where we could get most of the repair stuff we needed. Little known fact: there are no telephone poles or power poles anywhere in Manhattan. It&apos;s all under ground.

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• KE

  @kevinjbakertribe · 4 years ago

  Liking hot stick cam!

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• MI

  @MichaelRBaron · 4 years ago

  One trick with the sharpie. &nbsp;If you scribble over a number you have a good 3 seconds to wipe it back off of a non-porous surface.

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