From: none@none.com99   
      
   On 5/22/2025 4:46 AM, Snag wrote:   
   > On 5/22/2025 5:38 AM, Jim Wilkins wrote:   
   >> "Snag"  wrote in message news:100m0vd$38gvr$1@dont-email.me...   
   >>   
   >>   While on a familiarization trip thru my downloaded owner/operator   
   >> manual for the antique Yanmar YM1500D tractor I just bought (mfd   
   >> 1975-79) I saw a fuse box ... so I decided to go exploring ! And I found   
   >> that fuse box , and I popped  the cover off , and I found ... fuse wires   
   >> on screw terminals ! OK , it ain't exactly state of the art , but it   
   >> fills the need . I also found tucked in the cover a small plastic   
   >> package of what I assume to be fuse wires . What I don't know is what   
   >> the amperage rating of these wires is - I'm hoping one of you might have   
   >> an idea  . Eventually I will replace this fuse box with a unit that has   
   >> plug in fuses , but for right now I'm going to clean up the original and   
   >> see if I can get the lights/horn/turnsigs working ...   
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   >> https://tractorpoint.com/cgi-bin/tractor/bs_msgbythread.pl?   
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   >    At least no previous owners have butchered the wiring ! I ordered a   
   > pair of cheap analog VOM's last night , all my cheap digital units have   
   > died . Sure wish we still had a Radio Shack ! The fuse connections need   
   > cleaning up but that's just one more little thing . I'm hoping that the   
   > cooling system was drained - they recommend straight water because it's   
   > a  thermal siphon , no pump - and isn't full of holes . A surprising   
   > amount of parts are still available but I don't really want to buy a 250   
   > dollar radiator !   
      
   I don't have an answer to your query.  It just reminded my when I worked   
   for Arizona Telephone Company (since bought out by TDS Telecom) back in   
   the 80s a supervisor of mine pointed out some antique equipment still in   
   service that used 1 amp fuse wire.  He gave me a spool of the stuff out   
   of his personal stash.  I doubt I still have it, but I don't ever   
   remember throwing it away.   
      
   That was a weird friendship.  Years later he worked for me, and I fired   
   him for an egregious mistake with a panic alarm for a customer.  The   
   customer was robbed and the panic alarm didn't work.  I had specifically   
   asked him if he had tested it.  It turns out he tested the button and   
   wires with a meter and then hooked it up to the panic input on the   
   control incorrectly.  He never actually tested it.  The correct way to   
   test most alarm devices is to active them with the system fully   
   functional and make sure dispatch receives the signals... anyway, oddly   
   enough we were still friends until he died living in an adult care home   
   up in Oregon a few years later.   
      
   Back on topic if I run across that spool of fuse wire I'll let you know,   
   and you can tell me if you want it.  I never used it for anything.   
      
      
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