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also the practice of removing a blown fuse in a UK 13A plug and covering it in silver foil before replacing it !!!!
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Or a few strands stripped from some flex wrapped around it.
Or, indeed, a sawn-down 6" nail!
Just the right size; a favourite trich with engineers running oil-cooled welders...that is if they don't use the guts of two rubber Duraplugs; swap the live stirrup pin with a screw-term neutral from the other plug
[This message has been edited by uksparky (edited 07-12-2004).]