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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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  • Kelly Marie Angel:

    Lol that made me smile where do you think these things up?


    It really happened Kelly. The singed but not burnt item was put back into service.  The  resilience was demonstrated of a switch fuse made of steel and porcelain. We could not decide whether to name it Lazarus or Phoenix.


    Z.


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  • Kelly Marie Angel:

    Lol that made me smile where do you think these things up?


    It really happened Kelly. The singed but not burnt item was put back into service.  The  resilience was demonstrated of a switch fuse made of steel and porcelain. We could not decide whether to name it Lazarus or Phoenix.


    Z.


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