This is not a fuse people!

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And it doesn't belong in the F901 position of a GO7 chassis either. Tell me none of you guys are doing this.

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Hmmm! How many amps does it take to split the center of a paperclip fuse?

Not sure, but the more amps the better right lol. I work in the car audio industry and I've seen several fuse substitutes - screws, nails, aluminum foil etc. That's the first paper clip I've seen.- Barry
 
Nah, a fuse is small, round, made mostly of copper, and has Abe Lincoln's picture on it :D
 
my dad shoved a live 22 bullet into the fuse box on his ford bronco (We were camping and nothing else was around..)

Few years later the the fused popped.. Blew out the side of brass. Bullet was in 1 side of the holder and part of the brass in the other..


But as for video games, I once saw a blown fuse in a pacman upright replaced with a foil wrapped blown fuse..
 
Ops running USA pins in Europe like to do the foil wrapping on fuses. They also like jumpering them with plain old copper wire.


I like the classic G07 fuse fix where they put a black plastic fuse holder on long wires in place of the fuse, that way when the chassis eventually ends up on the junk pile, you have easy to use handle with which to grab it. :)
 
I love the games you get where someone has rewired the power and it goes from the cord, to the transformer, to the power supply. No switches, fuses, or anything else to save you/your game. ;)
 
My favorite is when you get an old pinball machine, and look inside, and there's actually BOLTS in place of the fuses! That's some scary shit right there.
 
LOL! I saw a cabinet will all of the fuses in the bottom replaced with bolts. Yes, bolts!

Scott C.
 
One of the ms pacs i recently picked up had the metal from a bread tie running from side to side of the blown fuse. Needless to say, I didnt catch it till I fired her up and saw the mini fire that ensued!
 
I couldn't tell by the scale of the pic how big that was, it almost looks like a metal coat hanger wire, and I couldn't figure out how someone would get that soldered in there on a GO7 board.
 
my dad shoved a live 22 bullet into the fuse box on his ford bronco (We were camping and nothing else was around..)

Few years later the the fused popped.. Blew out the side of brass. Bullet was in 1 side of the holder and part of the brass in the other.

They tried that on Mythbusters once (from the description over at TV.com of this episode):
This myth was intended to prove or disprove the fact that a bullet used as a truck fuse could heat up enough to fire, and hit someone, as reported in an urban legend.
A fuse was removed from an old truck, and a bullet was used as a replacement. Buster was seated in the driver's seat, and the truck was started. Nothing happened. The mythbusters decided that there may have been a short in the truck's wiring, causing it to heat up too much. Still, the bullet did not fire. Once they re-wired the truck with heavier wire, and shorted it, the bullet successfully fired into Buster's leg. They then proceeded in firing it multiple more times - the bullet fired each time.
This myth was confirmed, but only under extreme circumstances. Your truck would have to be in horrible shape for this to happen.

If anyone hasn't seen the show, Buster is a crash test dummy that's used for most of their testing :)
 
I found a 15 amp ceramic fuse with exteranal wiring wrapped around it on a Defender power supply. It was in the 7A fuse slot. Needless to say the bridge rectifier was slagged.

Regarding Mythbusters, what they showed was backed up by the story Mr Bill related, the 22 cal bullet worked fine as a fuse until one day :eek:.

ken
 
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