Re: [Amc-list] fusible Link wire gage size

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Foil was common.
Never saw the coat hanger one.
For the most part foil would still work like a fuse.
it has no real strength and would burn out again, now at what amp that occured would depend on how many layers of foil was in place. 
  Not very scientific, but hey, it's just an "old car"....

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Mark Price
Morgantown, WV
1969 AMC Rambler, 4.0L, EFI, T-5
2004 Grand Cherokee Laredo, 4.7L, Quadratrc II
" Chronic Pain Hurts"

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From: "Jamie Smith" <oconner51@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> 
> >From: farna@xxxxxxx<mailto:farna@xxxxxxx>
> >maybe the "easy to replace" part. I bet some idiot would blow a 30A fuseand 
> stick a paper clip in >it "just to get home" and raost the wiring harness. With 
> the fusible link it's a bit more idiot >proof... (answers my question good 
> enough!!)
> 
> 
> My grandfather used to own a auto repair shop. One time my parents took their 
> car to him to have something fixed (my mom is disabled and didn't drive so it 
> was my dad that always did stuff like fuse replacements). Well. my grandfather 
> came in just fuming about my dads choice of replacement fuses. Nearly every fuse 
> in the fuse box (this was on an old car with the glass tube fuses) had blown and 
> as they blew my dad either wrapped a piece of foil around it and popped it back 
> in or shoved a piece of coat hanger wire in the slot. My grandfather told him 
> not to ever do anything that stupid again. 
> 
> Jamie Smith
> Spokane, WA
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