TIN FOIL FOR FUSE REPAIR.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 2 June 1928, Page 14

TIN FOIL FOR FUSE REPAIR.

In the event or a fuse blowing when no replacement Ls at hand, the original fuse can be restored to its former condition of usefulness simply by wrapping a pieee of “silver” paper (tinfoil) round the glass tube, so that it makes , ;ontaet with the metal caps at the , ends, and is held in place by the , clips provided for the accommodation of the fuse. This method is far pre.erable to the usual one of simply winding a piece of heavy wire round the clips, for should there be any fault in the system which should cause the fuse to blow the resistance of thick wire is too great to “fuse,” and some i other part of the circuit will be dam- ! age 1, whereas tinfoil will give way. IF it is considered worth the trouble, old blown-out fuses may be repaired quickly in the home garage, simply by melting the solder from the holes in j

the ends of the metal caps, passing a piece of new fuse wire of the necessary resistance through caps and glass tube, and securing it in place with a spot of solder where-it emerges from the ends of the caps, afterwards breaking off the pieces of wire which extended from the caps.