Breaker breaker

Turns out to be the panel. It is a thing that is not thought about very much but is still a very nice design feature. Circuit Breakers are designed to fail conservatively. If a 20 Amp breaker starts to fail, it will trip at a lower value and not stay energized when a higher current than 20 Amps starts to flow through it. It's inherent design will always protect the device under load. By the same token, instead of doing a dead short across the output, it will fail open. This is what happened here -- I have both legs (220 Volts) going into the breaker but nothing coming out. I pulled the breaker, replaced it with a new one and voil� -- 220 Volts output. This is as far as I am going to go tonight. Like I said, the panel is corroded so I'll head into town tomorrow and pick up a replacement and start with all new wiring. Still do not know what was spraying so I got those gubbins today. We will be heading out to The Puget Sound Antique Tractor & Machinery Association tomorrow morning for the final day of their annual antique engine and steam show. Always a lot of fun! UPDATE: Well crap -- forgot that this doesn't run on Sunday. Today is their last day so we will miss it this year...