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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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    Has no one yet mentioned those cute plugs for putting irons or toasters into bayonet-cap lamp-sockets?

    I'm impressed by the school memories: so I'm not alone in that, though I think broadgage preserved more detail!  Much is the same as I remember, especially about large numbers of 150 W incandescents. Other memories are all the clunky metal-handled MEM switchgear at various distribution boards and in the stage-lighting, and a single ELCB for the three-phase supply to an entire infant/middle school (I think I remember one trip; not sure about its type in my early days, but 100 mA RCD when I was 12, and more recently I've been back and seen the usual conversion from TT to PME). Temporary buildings ('Terrapins', years old) with 4 or 6 mm2 FTE along a catenary.  At the age of 6 I got a boiler-house tour, from the headmaster who'd kindly reacted to seeing my interest in where the pipes and wires went, but I was too nervous to remember much of the stuff while under supervision.
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    Has no one yet mentioned those cute plugs for putting irons or toasters into bayonet-cap lamp-sockets?

    I'm impressed by the school memories: so I'm not alone in that, though I think broadgage preserved more detail!  Much is the same as I remember, especially about large numbers of 150 W incandescents. Other memories are all the clunky metal-handled MEM switchgear at various distribution boards and in the stage-lighting, and a single ELCB for the three-phase supply to an entire infant/middle school (I think I remember one trip; not sure about its type in my early days, but 100 mA RCD when I was 12, and more recently I've been back and seen the usual conversion from TT to PME). Temporary buildings ('Terrapins', years old) with 4 or 6 mm2 FTE along a catenary.  At the age of 6 I got a boiler-house tour, from the headmaster who'd kindly reacted to seeing my interest in where the pipes and wires went, but I was too nervous to remember much of the stuff while under supervision.
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