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Lost Electrical Skills. Rough Justice.

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I went to give an estimate today. Fuse board renewal. A holiday chalet. Some family members had stayed, aged early 20s. A rewireable fuse had previously blown on a lighting circuit. The young guests had no idea how to replace the fuse wire even though  a new fuse wire card was there.


 I am feeling very old. I am listening to Bananarama's "Rough Justice," 12 inch version, 1984.

It still sounds good on vinyl.


Fuse wire is dead....long live fuse wire.


Oh, to be young again.


Z.




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    I remember the days when wire fuses were the norm. On lighting circuits, if fuse wire was not to hand, a fairly safe improvisation was a single strand of wire stripped from a piece of scrap flex.


    I can also remember the fairly general use of gas lighting ! And most people expected an electrician to be "able to fix the lights" even if these were gas lights.


    As a teenager, we had a neighbour with only a 20 amp service from the electricity company ! And it proved sufficient. 6 sub-circuits, each of 5 amps.

    Water heater, 1 kw

    Bathroom heater, 750 watts.

    Bedroom heater, 750 watts.

    Ceiling lights

    Lighting sockets.

    5 amp socket in kitchen for a no heat washing machine, or a 1 kw kettle, or a toaster, or the Hoover.


    Cooking was coal burning, coal fire in living room. A couple of gas lights as well as electric lights.

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    I remember the days when wire fuses were the norm. On lighting circuits, if fuse wire was not to hand, a fairly safe improvisation was a single strand of wire stripped from a piece of scrap flex.


    I can also remember the fairly general use of gas lighting ! And most people expected an electrician to be "able to fix the lights" even if these were gas lights.


    As a teenager, we had a neighbour with only a 20 amp service from the electricity company ! And it proved sufficient. 6 sub-circuits, each of 5 amps.

    Water heater, 1 kw

    Bathroom heater, 750 watts.

    Bedroom heater, 750 watts.

    Ceiling lights

    Lighting sockets.

    5 amp socket in kitchen for a no heat washing machine, or a 1 kw kettle, or a toaster, or the Hoover.


    Cooking was coal burning, coal fire in living room. A couple of gas lights as well as electric lights.

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