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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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    'twas not me, but normcall - I was just  rising to the challenge of guessing why it did not work.

    But yes, we are spoilt nowadays with separated lights and power, 3 pin plugs, ADS  and all the rest of it.


    It does not seem that long ago that I last used one of those horrible mains plugs where the wire twisted round a sort of brass split pin.
    this sort of thing, flameport website

    They fitted into the bayonet lamp adaptors as a quick source of emergency power.
    like this

    It is that long ago of course, and I remember it well, it must be more like 40 years actually, dad and I  put the freezer (itself a new and shiny thing) on the lights circuit while we rewired the sockets into a ring, and just tucked the earth out of the way for the duration.

    Of course it would be  no more dangerous now than it was then, but nowadays we'd be having kittens.

    Once we had the wiring sorted the "power from the lights"  kit was never needed again.?


    Mike
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    'twas not me, but normcall - I was just  rising to the challenge of guessing why it did not work.

    But yes, we are spoilt nowadays with separated lights and power, 3 pin plugs, ADS  and all the rest of it.


    It does not seem that long ago that I last used one of those horrible mains plugs where the wire twisted round a sort of brass split pin.
    this sort of thing, flameport website

    They fitted into the bayonet lamp adaptors as a quick source of emergency power.
    like this

    It is that long ago of course, and I remember it well, it must be more like 40 years actually, dad and I  put the freezer (itself a new and shiny thing) on the lights circuit while we rewired the sockets into a ring, and just tucked the earth out of the way for the duration.

    Of course it would be  no more dangerous now than it was then, but nowadays we'd be having kittens.

    Once we had the wiring sorted the "power from the lights"  kit was never needed again.?


    Mike
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