[jjl3rd]

Mornin' people: heres the deal - I'm redoing the kitchen and need to run some new circuits. The problem is that between the kitchen and the breaker box theres a lot of nice unmarred plaster walls. Wait.... look at that: the double oven that will not be replaced is serviced by a 50 amp 220 volt line. hmmmm could I just add a local breaker panel and run all the separate circuits from there? at first glance I would say so. now I'm looking at the supply wire from the main to the old oven location. Good - served by a 50 a breaker, ok copper wire - even better oops that looks like 10 ga wire. oh oh shouldn't that be something like 8 ga? maybe if I replace the supply breaker with a 30 A? help me out here guys did someone wayback when use the wrong wire (or breaker) is it as easy as just replacing the breaker or maybe even easier as could the 10 ga be ok? or is it possible that the cross section of the wire gages have changed since 1965 as I noticed that the wires marked 14 ga seen to me to be smaller than todays 14 ga?