Fused spurs

[Lutonnovice]

Hi all,

For future reference, I would like to know how I should respond to an electrician who told me that I shouldn't be removing and checking a fuse in a switched spur. It's the type that has a lever out fuse holder.
I'm pretty sure this is no different from checking the fuse in a 13A plug.
My original response was to laugh out loud. Perhaps not very kind.

 

[terryplumb]

Did electrician happen to tell you why you shouldnt do it by any chance ?

 

[JohnW2]

For future reference, I would like to know how I should respond to an electrician who told me that I shouldn't be removing and checking a fuse in a switched spur. It's the type that has a lever out fuse holder.

Checking it for what? Do you have reason to think that it may have 'blown'? Whatever ....

I'm pretty sure this is no different from checking the fuse in a 13A plug.

You're right.

My original response was to laugh out loud. Perhaps not very kind.

Kind or not, it sounds like a pretty appropriate response

To answer your question "for future reference", I would think that you would probably be advised to speak to a different electrician next time

Kind Regards, John

 

[sparkwright]

The only, only reason I can think of why it is not a good idea to randomly check fuses in FCUs is the potential damage one can do to the accessory when levering the fuse out with a screwdriver.

But that's not a reason, and everything we do in life risks damage to things.

Unless he knows something about the FCUs in your house, like the wrong fuses being fitted, which I doubt.

No one should 'check' fuses for the sake of it normally, so I kind of agree with the electrician, but it is a good idea if you think the fuse may the incorrect amperage, or you suspect wear and tear.

It seems to me fuses of the 60s and 70s were prone to the ends falling off - but that may be just me.

 

[securespark]

I'm from the 60s and my ends are falling off too!

 

[JohnW2]

.... My local bank has no cashiers serving customers. Because it's closed. Before 2021 is out, all the others in our village will be closed too. ....

I've been meaning to ask ...what sort of "village" is this one of yours that used to have multiple banks? I live in a true village, surrounded by countless similar other ones, but not a single one of these villages has ever (well, certainly not in the ~35 years I've been here) had even one bank

Kind Regards, John

 

[bernardgreen]

I was confused but now I am defused

what sort of "village" is this one of yours that used to have multiple banks?

Our village has 2 banks, one on each side of the river.

 

[RandomGrinch]

an electrician who told me that I shouldn't be removing and checking a fuse in a switched spur.

Am I a really terrible person?
I'm imagining a Hospital visitor, randomly pulling out fuses on critical equipment, just to 'check' them!

 

[securespark]

I've been meaning to ask ...what sort of "village" is this one of yours that used to have multiple banks? I live in a true village, surrounded by countless similar other ones, but not a single one of these villages has ever (well, certainly not in the ~35 years I've been here) had even one bank

Kind Regards, John

I have lived all my life so far in urban areas. We have always known the main shopping centres of these areas as "the village", even when I lived in Golders Green. Wikipedia talks about a village being bigger than a hamlet and smaller than a town. It also says an area earns the right to call itself a village when a church is built. I'm not sure what the difference is between these urban villages and your "true village", unless by true you mean it has rural areas surrounding it, separating it from the next built up area. If this is the case, what I know as urban villages would have been like yours many years ago, but have since grown out to meet its neighbours.

The town where I live is Stockport, but this is made up of many villages that over the years have spread into each other. I currently live in Bramhall (and have done since mid-1999) and when we first moved in, there were 6 banks in the village: RBS, NatWest, Britannia (later Co-op bank), Alliance & Leicester (later Santander), Barclays and HSBC. Bramhall village centre was once based around the large junction (now a roundabout) adjacent to Bramall Hall on the A5102. But since the appearance of the railway in 1845, the village centre has migrated to the areas around the junction between the A5102, the A5149 and the B5094.

There were a great many farms in Bramhall, up to the 1960s. We live on an estate built on one. The last piece of open land to be built on in the village was a small field that housed a few sheep bang in the centre of the village that had a house built on it in the 2000s. You can see the style has been matched to the neighbouring houses.

This picture from 10 February 1934 shows how rural Bramhall used to be. The camera is looking from the direction of Woodford towards the current village centre.

Below is a sat view during the construction of the A555 airport road, started in 1995 and finished in the last few years. The boomerang shaped road bottom left in the picture above is Jenny Lane, which you will see on the image below in the bottom centre. Unfortunately, I could not rotate the sat image to give a similar orientation as my compass has disappeared. But it gives you an idea just how much those fields have been developed over the decades.

Credit for images to Wikipedia, Google Maps and Stockport Image Archive.

 

[securespark]

OOI, I have just noticed the tennis club (started in the 1880's) on the 30s image.

Centre right, its the rectangle of land roughly divided into thirds. And you can see the development has started: the cul-de-sac parallel with the main road and some houses on a road at 90 degrees to it.

 

[JohnW2]

Our village has 2 banks, one on each side of the river.

You're getting worse

On that basis, I think there is probably one bank in my village - since I believe that our village (parish) boundary goes down the middle of a (tiny) river!

Kind Regards, John

 

[mattylad]

I'm confuddled?
What have villages with or without banks got to do with fused spurs?

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

I was confused but now I am defused




Our village has 2 banks, one on each side of the river.

Ours began in around 1930's with one, in the converted front room of a house, the house is now back to being a house, but is named 'The bank'. We then progressed to 3 proper banks in the high street, plus a couple of building societies. As of last year, the last bank closed - all we have now as the two BS and a few ATM's scattered around.

 

[securespark]

All ours had their own ATMs, plus the Tesco Express and Sainsbury's Local. Now all we have are the last 2.

 

[securespark]

I'm confuddled?
What have villages with or without banks got to do with fused spurs?

John asked me this about my signature:

I've been meaning to ask ...what sort of "village" is this one of yours that used to have multiple banks? I live in a true village, surrounded by countless similar other ones, but not a single one of these villages has ever (well, certainly not in the ~35 years I've been here) had even one bank

Kind Regards, John