Posted: Aug 07, 2017 7:42 pm
The_Metatron wrote:The house where I grew up had a fuse box with the old North American Edison base fuses. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuse_(electrical)#North_America
The field expedient was to put a penny into the socket and hold it in with the blown fuse. A penny is still a fuse, of course. Just one with many hundreds of amperes capacity before it opened. More than house wiring. Bad idea.
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Standard light bulbs fit those old style fuse sockets.
RS