Meet Later 2017-1-11
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Re: Meet Later 2017-1-11
ah, if you said 'screw-in fuse' I would understand...
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AnotherFairportfan
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Re: Meet Later 2017-1-11
They are officially known as "plug fuses", with an "Edison base".illiad wrote:ah, if you said 'screw-in fuse' I would understand...
I believe the original Edison power distribution system used screw-in connectors for ordinary power connections.
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Re: Meet Later 2017-1-11
That would be correct. I haven't seen one in person, but I did see one in an episode of Tom & Jerry. Jerry plugged Tom's tail into an outlet.
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Yeah, I think you're right. I've been in lots of old places with knob-and-tube wiring where there are still screw-in outlets, so you can use a 2-prong plug in an Edison socket. You've probably seen them, too.AnotherFairportfan wrote:I believe the original Edison power distribution system used screw-in connectors for ordinary power connections.
I've heard that people would just clip the leads to the wires in old knob-and-tube setups, but I've never seen anybody actually do that.
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I have seen electrocuted mice in the walls of a house with knob-and-tube wiring . . .
One of several reasons we tore that house down in '73.
And after dad died in 2004, we found a box of assorted fuses that he'd saved from that house . . . we think it was the emergency stash and he'd forgotten where he'd put it while moving.
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One of several reasons we tore that house down in '73.
And after dad died in 2004, we found a box of assorted fuses that he'd saved from that house . . . we think it was the emergency stash and he'd forgotten where he'd put it while moving.
--FreeFlier
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The crazy thing is that I know you can still buy adapters to allow you to plug in a two prong plug into one of those sockets. Not sure, but I may have seen fuses like that as well. But I don't know if you can get the wall outlet itself anymore. You'd have to put it into a light socket.
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Those adapters are a useful item for certain uses . . . no outlet, but there's a light socket . . . and there you are!
I have several for that reason.
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I have several for that reason.
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I'm not sure, but I think there's also USB adapters like that, as well.
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Re: Meet Later 2017-1-11
when you say 'plug fuse' this is what I think of.. (in UK!) --- the other side has screw terminals to put the fuse wire.. 
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Or where there IS an outlet, but it's a two-prong outlet in the base of a lamp with no room to even plug in a wall-wart.FreeFlier wrote:Those adapters are a useful item for certain uses . . . no outlet, but there's a light socket . . . and there you are!
I have several for that reason.
--FreeFlier