Should rewirable fuses be pensioned off?

[The Ghost]

Personally, I think yes they should be taken out of use. Apart from the problem of anything being placed in the fuse holder, there are other problems. The tendency when the fuse blows and wire replaced, which is really insanely fiddly, with a torch often, to replace the holder under load and get another blow out when inserted. Quite dangerous I think. Often missing covers which may constitute a fire risk. I think elderly people may struggle to pull and replace the fuse, an MCB is so much easier.

 

[snowhead]

How many Rewireable Fuse boxes and C..U's have gone up in smoke, compared to Modern MCB C.U's I wonder?

 

[Wilko]

A good question Snow !
My very non scientific internet audit has revealed only one pic of a heat damaged one, compared with well more than I've fingers and toes of MCB variety.
Here 'tis

 

[oracle]

I did say they were tried and trusted correctly used. Problem is, people seem to be determined to find any way to defeat the very things designed to protect them.

The worst examples I have seen is a suppliers BS 1361 cartridge fuse replaced with a short piece of pipe

Another guy used the 16mm earth conductor to connect the supply from the intake supply to the CCU main switch, bypassing the meter

 

[sam400]

As a bit of a laugh I had my last niceic assessment on a 3036 CU, well I enjoyed it but the inspector was most uncomfortable! I am not sure why?

 

[Octopus]

As a bit of a laugh I had my last niceic assessment on a 3036 CU, well I enjoyed it but the inspector was most uncomfortable! I am not sure why?

What were you showing him ?

 

[Octopus]

duplicate deleted

 

[oracle]

As a bit of a laugh I had my last niceic assessment on a 3036 CU, well I enjoyed it but the inspector was most uncomfortable! I am not sure why?

Was it a EICR? He might have hoped to see you doing a bit of wiring.

 

[littlespark]

On my old caravan site, one of our permanent customers replaced our 16A MCB supplying his unit with a 32A.
He then sawed off the toggle switches, which had the rating moulded into the plastic and superglued it to the other MCB

On a casual glance, you couldn't see the difference... not until I was meter reading one day and could smell the burning in the hook up unit.

I think we kicked him off the site for that one

 

[sam400]

It was a new circuit I put in to supply boiler in loft at my house.
He was adamant it needed an RCD but couldn't back it up with any regs. then we moved on to why I haven't got any bonding to water service. All good fun,
I've got plenty of decent jobs I could have showed him but couldn't be bothered to go anywhere.