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"Brian Gaff" writes:
I'm always finding fuses of many sizes in plugs stopping working recently
after about 10 years. the all just fell to bits in that the wire inside came
off the end.

I do see some old fuses at repair events which are not labelled
as BS1362. I have one which failed to interrupt the supply when
it blew and turned into an arc lamp inside the plug. There was
no evidence it was sand filled, so failing to break the circuit
is not unexpected.

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Andrew Gabriel
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