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   From: mapson.scarts@btinternet.INVALID   
      
   "Dave Plowman (News)"  wrote in message   
   news:525ab7e0d7dave@davenoise.co.uk...   
   : In article ,   
   :   Jerry  wrote:   
   : > Nothing what so ever to do with an appliance needing more   
   than   
   : > 13amps, that is something you introduced in an attempt to   
   troll,   
   : > it's everything to do with the appliance fuse blowing at 5pm   
   on a   
   : > Sunday and there being no replacement - husband is being   
   screamed   
   : > at by SWMBO because she wants to get the washing, hovering or   
   : > what ever done so hubby goes off in search of something - of   
   : > course those with common sense will rob Peter to pay Paul.   
   :   
   : Most home in the UK will have many many devices fitted with 13   
   amp plugs,   
   : and many of those also with 13 amp fuses.   
      
   Yes as I said, but many of those devices will, or might need to,   
   be in use to. In any case most people do not act like Magpies or   
   Wombles, hence why one sees so many serviceable or otherwise   
   appliances and electronic goods at the local waste/recycling   
   dumps.   
      
   :   
   : It would take a true idiot to spend time cutting a nail or   
   whatever to fit   
   : rather than taking the fuse from one of those other devices.   
   :   
      
   How long would it take to, as others have pointed out, wrap such   
   a fuse in kitchen foil, a length of wire or paperclip etc...   
      
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