Wylex plug in MCB tines.

[empip]

The two blade connection pins just look like quite flimsy folded sheet compared to the rewirable machined from the solid efforts... Saw a new one the other day, looked the same.

An old B40 ... I guess there is a plain 'location' face on the opposite side to the folded stepped face we see here.

-

 

[securespark]

Eeee, nothing's made as it was, lad!!

 

[RF Lighting]

Is it anything to do with the fact the old 3036 fuses had brass prongs, and the replacement MCBs have copper prongs?

 

[securespark]

Like I sai', nowt's made proper no more...

 

[RF Lighting]

tha's startin to sound like a Yorkshireman


afore long tha'll be shouting "'ow much?"

 

[empip]

Is it anything to do with the fact the old 3036 fuses had brass prongs, and the replacement MCBs have copper prongs?

Well we could equally machine one material or or tother .. more to do with cheap 'n you know what... Copper slices look poor, not flat on the location side.. But I guess they must do the biz .. Mind you, perhaps the users are all stiffs now, with no fire they cannot blame the leccy...

 

[securespark]

Well, I did spend 6 years at secondary school near Pontefract...


In that time, I'm sure my arms shrunk.

 

[securespark]

Mind you, perhaps the users are all stiffs now, with no fire they cannot blame the leccy...

Pip, they still make Standard B type breakers this way!! Folded over copper terminals which are screwed to the body of the breaker....

 

[empip]

The two blade connection pins just look like quite flimsy folded sheet compared to the rewirable machined from the solid efforts... Saw a new one the other day, looked the same.

An old B40 ... I guess there is a plain 'location' face on the opposite side to the folded stepped face we see here.

-

Pip, they still make Standard B type breakers this way!! Folded over copper terminals which are screwed to the body of the breaker....

Aye, had noticed........

 

[securespark]

As Homer would say.......

 

[toasty]

Maybe because you'd expect to insert and remove a fuse a fair few times during its life.

With a circuit breaker you wouldn't expect to remove it very often, if at all.

Maybe that's why it's not as sturdy?
-Dan

 

[JohnD]

Also, if you compare the size of the copper blades with the size of the cable they supply, it's vastly bigger. How much bigger does it need to be?

 

[MasterAbacus]

Well, I did spend 6 years at secondary school near Pontefract...

Really? Where abouts...lol.... small world...

 

[securespark]

Ackworth.

 

[MasterAbacus]

Ackworth.

Blimey....(Ditto) ... VERY small world.....lol