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Re: Tip of the day

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Subject: Re: Tip of the day
From: "John T. Blair" <jblair@exis.net>
Date: Fri, 01 Oct 1999 21:13:19 -0400
At 03:40 PM 10/1/99 -0400, Terry L. Thompson wrote:
>
>Well, as you probably know, fuses aren't cheap. So a guy at the office saw
>me working on my car and brought me a car resto magazine that had a tips
>section. One of the tips was, to keep from continually having to replace
those
>$.60-$1.00 fuses, do the following:
>
>Using a blown glass fuse, a circuit breaker and short length of insulated
>wire..
>
>Take the dc breaker (rated for 20 amps?) and to the conductors solder
>individual....

Terry,

  This is a very common practice.  You can also purchase some circuit
breakers 
at the auto parts store that are designed to plug into the fuse sockets.

If you'd like to learn more about the electrical systems on you car, check 
out my electrical Primer articles on my Morgan web page:

   www.team.net/www/morgan/tech

John

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