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   From: mapson.scarts@btinternet.INVALID   
      
   "David Looser"  wrote in message   
   news:9oqfn7Fd5pU1@mid.individual.net...   
      
      
   : [because I have never seen such faults]   
   : I don't buy this idea that people are putting screws, bolts or   
   bits of metal   
   : rod into plugs in any significant numbers at all. Its *so* much   
   easier to   
   : nick a fuse from another appliance than to start looking for   
   bits of metal   
   : that will fit!   
   :   
      
   As others have pointed out in this thread, not just bits of bolts   
   or screws, simple (and readily available) kitchen foil, or bits   
   of copper wire.   
      
   By your rational, because you (personally, as likely as not) have   
   never known anyone be killed by electrocution there can't be any   
   risk of electrocution?   
      
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