Historical British Educational Film. Mummy and Daughter Change a Fuse Wire.

Good on your Dad Andy, glad to hear he`s lasted so long and hoping it continues and hope he is well.

He makes a very good point. Fuses rewireable are a pretty tried and tested method by the greater population as we were growing up and works pretty well for most of the time.

I myself have made many installs that consited of a DP switched CU with BS 3036 fuses and the like. I never considered them unsafe.

You definately knew when a fuses blew, even a 5A but over that say a 30A left little doubt, great audible/visual qualities with those fuses and to those present a stark reminder to beware of Electrickery. An MCB thawk is nowhere near as interesting or reminding.

I do not recall great mounds of bodies littering the streets in the days when fusewire was king and everybody knew how to rewire a fuse (often badly though).

However the advent of the MCB probably enhanced some safety aspects from fire and shock but more importantly was less open to operator abuse once installed correctly.

Indeed how often I`d see 5A fusewire replaced with increasing bigger sizes/more strands till the fuse stopped blowing (or the wiring burnt out instead) That cured it then!? .

Along came the proliferation of the RCD and things got safer still (enducing the foolish to become less risk averse though!).

Nowadays we live with more appliances and gadgets then ever before and MCBs/RCDs often (In theory if not in practice) often make us safer than in fusewire days.

Trouble is extra safety causes greater risk taking to the meddlers in our population so the net benefit starts to become lost.

One rewire I did (with a fusewire CU) the old fellah apparently had scorned his wife for wanting to spend his money purely because she got a shock off the washing machine every now and then "don`t be so soft" he kept telling her and it was their 12 year old kids that were insisting on the rewire.

Good on your Dad Andy, glad to hear he`s lasted so long and hoping it continues and hope he is well.

He makes a very good point. Fuses rewireable are a pretty tried and tested method by the greater population as we were growing up and works pretty well for most of the time.

I myself have made many installs that consited of a DP switched CU with BS 3036 fuses and the like. I never considered them unsafe.

You definately knew when a fuses blew, even a 5A but over that say a 30A left little doubt, great audible/visual qualities with those fuses and to those present a stark reminder to beware of Electrickery. An MCB thawk is nowhere near as interesting or reminding.

I do not recall great mounds of bodies littering the streets in the days when fusewire was king and everybody knew how to rewire a fuse (often badly though).

However the advent of the MCB probably enhanced some safety aspects from fire and shock but more importantly was less open to operator abuse once installed correctly.

Indeed how often I`d see 5A fusewire replaced with increasing bigger sizes/more strands till the fuse stopped blowing (or the wiring burnt out instead) That cured it then!? .

Along came the proliferation of the RCD and things got safer still (enducing the foolish to become less risk averse though!).

Nowadays we live with more appliances and gadgets then ever before and MCBs/RCDs often (In theory if not in practice) often make us safer than in fusewire days.

Trouble is extra safety causes greater risk taking to the meddlers in our population so the net benefit starts to become lost.

One rewire I did (with a fusewire CU) the old fellah apparently had scorned his wife for wanting to spend his money purely because she got a shock off the washing machine every now and then "don`t be so soft" he kept telling her and it was their 12 year old kids that were insisting on the rewire.