What to do with old ITE Gould breakers?

[reader2580]

I have a bunch of old ITE Gould breakers. What do I do with them other than a trash can? The local Habitat Restore is only taking new electrical components these days.

I rewired a third of my house and replaced all of the switches and receptacles so I had to replace a lot of my ITE Gould breakers with Siemens AFCI and GFI breakers to be code legal.

 

[Norcal]

Considering that they are at best nearly 40 years old, Gould Inc sold ITE to Siemens-Allis about 1984, tossing them may be best.

 

[reader2580]

They are just over 40 years old. I'll throw them away if there isn't another good use for them. I just hate to landfill anything still useful. New ones are not that expensive, but of course a lot of stuff has to be AFCI now. A lot of homeowners I'm sure don't care about code and are still adding regular breakers without permits.

 

[Bert_]

Considering that they are at best nearly 40 years old, Gould Inc sold ITE to Siemens-Allis about 1984, tossing them may be best.

Out of curiosity when did they use the name ITE Imperial Corporation?

The panel in my house was produced under that name. 70's is what I have assumed.

 

[PugetDude]

Habitat for Humanity ReStore.
Someone will need them for an old panel.

 

[ant.foste]

Talk to this guy: https://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=473891

 

[rsanter]

Put them on offer up to CL for cheap. Someone out there may need some

 

[reader2580]

Habitat for Humanity ReStore.
Someone will need them for an old panel.

I already mentioned the local Habit Restore only takes new electrical stuff.

If it were me I would only buy new Siemens breakers if I needed more breakers for an ITE panel.

 

[Norcal]

Out of curiosity when did they use the name ITE Imperial Corporation?

The panel in my house was produced under that name. 70's is what I have assumed.

Gould Inc bought ITE Imperial in April of 1976, the name would live on until the data plates were used up, ITE Imperial Corp. was the result of a merger of the ITE Circuit Breaker Co. & Imperial Eastman ( the plumbing & tubing tools, fittings), The orginal EQ loadcenters were pretty well built, closer to a commercial panelboard, then came what I think you have, Gould released the EQ III, with the plastic interiors, ITE was the first to sell the 4-pole wide 150-200A, 2-pole main breakers & the plastic interiors, think that SQ D followed with plastic interiors in the QO & HOM panels, then GE.

 

[Bert_]

Gould Inc bought ITE Imperial in April of 1976, the name would live on until the data plates were used up, ITE Imperial Corp. was the result of a merger of the ITE Circuit Breaker Co. & Imperial Eastman ( the plumbing & tubing tools, fittings), The orginal EQ loadcenters were pretty well built, closer to a commercial panelboard, then came what I think you have, Gould released the EQ III, with the plastic interiors, ITE was the first to sell the 4-pole wide 150-200A, 2-pole main breakers & the plastic interiors, think that SQ D followed with plastic interiors in the QO & HOM panels, then GE.

They all took a big step down in quality when the plastic interiors came out. Never been a big fan of the 4 pole main with the plug on buss connections. Seen quite a few melted in otherwise good panels. A bolted main is so much better.

Mine has the 4 pole main but the interior is still steel. It's not commercial quality by any means.

 

[reader2580]

They all took a big step down in quality when the plastic interiors came out. Never been a big fan of the 4 pole main with the plug on buss connections. Seen quite a few melted in otherwise good panels. A bolted main is so much better.

My ITE Gould panel had the plastic interior. I removed the main breaker so I could scrap the metal bus. I thought the main was somehow bolted or screwed to the bus, but it has been almost two months so I don't recall exactly.

 

[reader2580]

I am probably going to just throw the breakers away. The single pole ones cost less than $5 at a big box store to replace.

I am guessing some people think they need ITE Gould breakers and don't realize that Siemens breakers fit just fine and are listed for such use.

 

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