Comments by "Rob Fraser" (@krashd) on "Why Circuit Breakers DON'T Protect People (electric shocks)" video.

  1. It still astounds that just 30 years ago my house had no circuit breakers, we still had the good old fashioned "fuse box", there was no consumer units or MCBs or anything shiny and white with inspection labels on it as we didn't get any of that until around 1994 - no, instead we still had an ugly brown box twice the size of a CU that looked like it was made of bakolite, and shoved in to the front was a dozen big ceramic fuses the size and shape of bourbon biscuits. I remember any time something blew my dad would remove the appropriate fuse cartridge, pull out a snapped/melted chunk of wire and then, spool a fresh piece of wire to it before plugging it back in. I'm glad that now the house is mine I don't have to rely on anything so archaic to keep fires at bay.
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