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Cooking With Electricity.

1. Locate your old M.E.M. switch fuse.


2. Open the door to check that the working parts are dry and need grease.


3. Apply spray lubricant generously to handle and mechanical moving parts.


4. Close door.


5. Operate switch handle to distribute lubricant and help it work in.


6. Observe smoke issuing from enclosure.


7. Panic.


8. Realise that a spark must have set fire to the lubricant or propellant.


9. Realize that a fire extinguisher is not to hand.


10. Panic again.


11. Fan flames with rag in effort to snuff them out.


12. Remove burning switch fuse door and throw it to a safer place.


13. Allow everything to cool then reassemble.


14. Read warning label on spray can lubricant with strong magnifying glass. Notice the words Highly Flammable in letters 0.25mm high.


15. That is how you flambe an M.E.M. switch fuse.


Next week fish.


Z.


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  • Many years ago when I was sixteen I was helping a mate trying to get some of the old tick tock electric fence units with the swinging arms and solenoids in them working.


    We ran out of WD40, so tried Plus Gas Formula A, we lost our eye lashes and eyebrows along with our fringes resulting in much hilarity when we went to the pub afterwards.
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  • Many years ago when I was sixteen I was helping a mate trying to get some of the old tick tock electric fence units with the swinging arms and solenoids in them working.


    We ran out of WD40, so tried Plus Gas Formula A, we lost our eye lashes and eyebrows along with our fringes resulting in much hilarity when we went to the pub afterwards.
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