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Date:         Sat, 4 Jul 2015 23:49:00 -0400
Reply-To:     David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
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From:         David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
Subject:      Re: sharing an incident
Comments: To: Neil N <musomuso@GMAIL.COM>
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At 03:46 PM 7/4/2015, Neil N wrote: >wasn't cooling on 12V. The issue seemed to boil down to a little >corrosion in the small dished portion at lower brass part of fuse >holder near the driver seat.

Euro-type fuses have an extremely narrow contact area exactly at the edge of the little hole in the contact. The contact can look shiny and wonderful everywhere else and it won't matter. The quick-and-dirty way to clean up the connection is to spin the fuse with your fingers. A burnishing tool made to look like a fuse could be very handy. That might possibly consist of a selected ceramic fuse body with the element removed.

Yrs, d


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