Are, in my opnion, bigger pieces of crap than a Yugo with 200k miles.

If you are unfortunate enough to have a Zinsco panel (or know anybody with one) do yourself a big favor and get rid of it before something bad happens.

Below are two pics. One of the Aluminum (!!) bus bar, and another one with the main breaker. You should be able to see that on the left side, the contact is about 1/2 as thick as it should be. How it lasted as long as it did is beyond me. Who knows what would've happened had I drawn some serious amperage through that thing. I've done a few searches on Zinsco's stuff, and none of what I read was good....apparently the breakers themselves may or may not trip at the correct amperage. (one 20amp breaker wouldn't trip even when they shot 50amps through it).

If I ever find the people responsible for designing this crap, I'm ought to slap them upside the head.

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