Urgent Bus Plugs, PBQ3640 and PBQ3660
Square D PBQ3660 Bus Plugs For Sale by MIDWEST
MIDWEST’s Switchgear Shop had an urgent request for twelve bus plugs, including a large Square D PBQ3640 and Square D PBQ3660, 400 amp and 600 amp bus plugs. It’s not unusual to get urgent requests for bus plugs, but it was a little news worthy to get an emergency request for twelve bus plugs, including a 400 amp and a 600 amp bus plug. As it turned out, the bus plugs were for a former manufacturing plant that had been sold. The new owners were trying to get heat into the building before the Northern winter froze all the water pipes and who knows what else. But they ran into a big problem. Copper thieves had stolen a bunch of the electrical equipment, including large bus plugs. They left the really small bus plugs. The owners thought they got lucky because the thievery looked like a project in progress just when the owners began their restoration work. It looked like the thieves had just started taking the electrical stuff closest to the rear loading dock doors. In the process of removing the bus plugs, they damaged the bus duct. It looked like they just unbolted the plugs and let them fall. A lot of work for not much copper. Thieves sometimes will just cut down the whole bus duct with the plugs attached. But that’s dangerous and very loud. It is so unfortunate that the theft of a small amount of copper can be so expensive to repair and replace.