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Originally posted by acanthus

And you have and I thank you but if I hadn’t been just summarily ignored by the last 6, that’s six electricians with whom I have spoken and to whom I have asked to work on this trailer, I wouldn’t be interested in doing this myself. I’ve run out of ideas. Maybe with gasoline at 3.25 a gallon, electricians are just not interested in a job that doesn’t net them, after filling up their tank, a daily wage….and so maybe they shouldn’t. I mean it certainly has changed my attitude on running over to look at a job with little prospect of it being lucrative.

I would respectfully submit that anyone who is not a licensed electrician would be hard pressed to be sued by offering advice with a disclaimer that the final inspection be done by one. I am not looking to go up in a puff of smoke in this trailer to save $100 that I could make in an afternoon, I am simply looking to get this accomplished and have found it difficult to get help. If this is not the forum for eliciting this information, I certainly respect that.

Operational expenses are part of doing business, so using the cost of gas as a reason that no one will come out is, IMO, weak. Where do you live?

Have you considered pulling your trailer over to an electrician’s shop, so that his gas doesn’t figure into it?

Do you have a school close to you that has an electrical program? If so, call the instructor to see if your project could be done by the class.

Do you have an electrical supply store near you? If so, they will probably tell you exactly what you need to do, and how to do it.