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

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A delightful old film. How times have changed.




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    Kelly Marie:

    Interesting topic love this historical stuff. I remember just about a card of fuse wire with 5 10 and 15 amp wire on 5 was lighting and small plugs 10 was heating and 15 large plugs anyone else remember that?




    Yes Kelly Marie,

                               I remember the fuse wire cards. I still have a few. Some shops still sell fuse wire cards with 5 Amp wire for lighting, 15 Amp wire for immersion heaters etc. and 30 Amp wire for ring finals and cooker circuits. . . .


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    Yes I remember the 5/10/15 A cards too. I think the 10 A rating was often used for immersion heaters; some were 2 kW in those days. In due course these cards gave way to the 5/15/30 A cards.


    This reminds me of a time when our local electricity board  was running a local campaign about the importance of using correct fuses and it was happy to advise if necessary. I went into the local showroom asking for advice. I had a 20 A rewireable fuse in a Wylex consumer unit. I could not buy 20 A fuse wire anywhere; could they help? I was met by blank looks. I found fuse wire on a roll, similar to Andy's but 20 A not 60 A, available from an electrical wholesaler. I considered buying but thought that was a heck of a lot of spare fuse wire for one fuse. I decided instead that if the fuse were to blow I would just twist two bits of fuse wire together to make up 20 A. As it happened the fuse never blew during my occupancy.

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    Kelly Marie:

    Interesting topic love this historical stuff. I remember just about a card of fuse wire with 5 10 and 15 amp wire on 5 was lighting and small plugs 10 was heating and 15 large plugs anyone else remember that?




    Yes Kelly Marie,

                               I remember the fuse wire cards. I still have a few. Some shops still sell fuse wire cards with 5 Amp wire for lighting, 15 Amp wire for immersion heaters etc. and 30 Amp wire for ring finals and cooker circuits. . . .


    Z.


     




    Yes I remember the 5/10/15 A cards too. I think the 10 A rating was often used for immersion heaters; some were 2 kW in those days. In due course these cards gave way to the 5/15/30 A cards.


    This reminds me of a time when our local electricity board  was running a local campaign about the importance of using correct fuses and it was happy to advise if necessary. I went into the local showroom asking for advice. I had a 20 A rewireable fuse in a Wylex consumer unit. I could not buy 20 A fuse wire anywhere; could they help? I was met by blank looks. I found fuse wire on a roll, similar to Andy's but 20 A not 60 A, available from an electrical wholesaler. I considered buying but thought that was a heck of a lot of spare fuse wire for one fuse. I decided instead that if the fuse were to blow I would just twist two bits of fuse wire together to make up 20 A. As it happened the fuse never blew during my occupancy.

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