Date:         Sat, 4 Jul 2015 23:49:00 -0400
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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