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  2. Breaker bar - Wikipedia

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    A breaker bar is able to create a larger amount of rotational force compared to a standard socket wrench. A standard breaker bar is strong enough to allow the user to apply up to 2,500 pound-feet (3,400 N⋅m) of torque without breaking the bar. [3] A high-end 1/2" socket wrench can withstand a maximum of 500 pound-feet (680 N⋅m) of torque. [4]

  3. Building Materials Holding Corporation - Wikipedia

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    On August 28, 2018, It was announced that BMC Stock Holdings would move its headquarters from Atlanta to Raleigh, North Carolina effective September 30, 2018. The move came 3 years after it merged with STOCK building Supply (which formed the name BMC Stock Holdings) in 2015, (STOCK Building Supply is also a Raleigh-based company).

  4. Stab-Lok - Wikipedia

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    Angie's List and NBC Bay Area both highlighted an October 2002 ruling in a New Jersey Superior Court, which found that FPE (Federal Pacific Electric), the manufacturer of the Stab-Lok breakers and panels, "knowingly and purposefully [sic] distributed circuit breakers which were not tested to meet UL standards as indicated on their label".

  5. Square D - Wikipedia

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    By 1929, Square D merged with a Milwaukee-based industrial controller company and began producing Westinghouse-licensed circuit breakers. In 1935 Square D began producing its own range of circuit breakers for both commercial and residential uses. [3] In 1991, the company was acquired and became a subsidiary of Schneider Electric. [4]

  6. The Breakers - Wikipedia

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    The Breakers is a Gilded Age mansion located at 44 Ochre Point Avenue, Newport, Rhode Island, US. It was built between 1893 and 1895 as a summer residence for Cornelius Vanderbilt II , a member of the wealthy Vanderbilt family .

  7. Distribution board - Wikipedia

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    A distribution board (also known as panelboard, circuit breaker panel, breaker panel, electric panel, fuse box or DB box) is a component of an electricity supply system that divides an electrical power feed into subsidiary circuits while providing a protective fuse or circuit breaker for each circuit in a common enclosure.

  8. Crowbar - Wikipedia

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    A crowbar with a curved chisel end to provide a fulcrum for leverage and a goose neck to pull nails. A crowbar, also called a wrecking bar, pry bar or prybar, pinch-bar, or occasionally a prise bar or prisebar, colloquially gooseneck, or pig bar, or in Australia a jemmy, [1] is a lever consisting of a metal bar with a single curved end and flattened points, used to force two objects apart or ...

  9. Door breaching - Wikipedia

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    A U.S. Marine performs a ballistic breach of a padlocked door using a combat shotgun. Door breaching is a process used by military, police, or emergency services to force open closed or locked doors.