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Originally Posted by dieseljeep

Mohican Relyon was the lower priced line of Arrow Hart&Hegeman.

Is the building wired in BX cable or knob & tube. Some areas used old style Romex without a ground, which had a woven cloth cover.

For the lower priced line, they sure have stood up to years of use. A few were replaced due to wear as they just wouldn't hold a plug anymore. Others were replaced with 3-pronged for refrigerators and such. About 70% still are in use.

The buildings are BX cable with the rubberized wire. That's some pretty heavy conduit as it's steel. The wiring from the outside is on some massive sized wiring (not sure what gauge, but each handles 400 amps).

There are some knob and tube in the attic, but it is stringing the wires for door bells and there's a central power supply behind a panel in the second floor hallway. The doorbells are long gone, but the wiring is still there. I found the transformer in the wall was still live, so I disconnected it.

It's fun going through these old buildings. I found an empty bottle of bourbon in a dried puddle of plaster in the crawl space under one of the buildings. I was able to clean it off without too much damage to the label. I had a date of '38 on the bottom.