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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Hookman, post: 7966496, member: 99642&quot;]&quot; Sticking a penny in a fuse socket is almost a guaranteed fire hazard. &quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s for sure.</p><p><br /></p><p>In the 1960&#039;s, my dad found out the hard way.&nbsp; A round glass fuse blew and my dad wanted to put a penny behind it. I warned him not to, but I was just a 12 yr old kid, and he said he&#039;s done it many times, &quot;What can it hurt?&quot;.</p><p>So he did it.</p><p>We had not even walked away from the fuse box before clouds of heavy black smoke were coming out of the garage attic. We pulled the box handle to shut the power off and ran to the garage to put out the fire.&nbsp; Luckily for us, once the juice was off the fire just went out. He went up in the attic and found a short-circuited wire, repaired it, replaced the burnt fuse with the proper fuse and everything was fine.</p><p><br /></p><p>A very valuable lesson was learned with the only damage being some singed insulation in the attic and some singed pride in my Dad.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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