I'm pissed off because I left the cat in overnight and he showed his appreciation by pissing on my washing.

Then pay him back in kind by turning him into Kung Pow Kitty.

:roflmao:

when the weather goes from a nice 92 to 68 in less than an hour then the hail hits and it rains so hard that my cell phone cuts out

that pisses me off too.

:argue: Never seen someone get so angry at having to change a fuse. Seriously, I thought guys were supposed to delight in such things! If I had known I was gonna ruin his night so much by asking him to get the fuse to the fridge/microwave that blew as I finished cooking supper, I would've gotten it myself!!!

Humans are an amazing species.

At many levels.

Next time tell him you are tired of the blown fuses. You want him to change out the service panel to breakers. Then changing a fuse won't be a big deal. :wink:

And if they're like here, they just plug straight into the fuse slot.

Most likely they are the old glass screw-in fuses. :eek:

Our fuses were shaped porcelain pieces that took a replaceable fuse wire. The new replacements are circuit-breaking switches that fit into the fuse bay without modification. New homes and replacement boards have the breakers built into the boards.

Interesting. :nod: The key word that caught my eye was 'slot'. I had a hunch you were referring to tube fuses as we know them. They have never been used here for residential service but have and still are for commercial and industrial installations, particularly three phase service. Our residential service is normally 120v, 100 amp with two hots and a neutral. All the 120v appliances come from a single leg and 240v for motors above fractional HP and high wattage heating elements by using both hot sides but are still single phase.

This topic made me think of some of the OLD home installations I've seen. Some of the earliest were 'wire fuses' in a wood box lined with asbestos sheet and mounted on the wall with normally 2 circuits for the 20 amp service. It was nothing but two screw terminals connected with a small lead alloy wire intended to melt. Same principle as the replaceable flat strips inside the porcelain or single use fiber tube fuses I believe you were talking about. We moved from the wire fuse to round glass threaded plug with a visible link inside to see which had blown among the 4 to 8 circuits on a 60 amp service. Sometime near the 1950's they started using breakers with 100 amp service to all homes.

240v and 480v, 3 ph with 400amp and 600amp industrial service had a different evolution.

Oh dear... great day for the hot water boiler to break down...

Just as well it's spring.