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NSM

Jan 1, 1970
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| > I am shocked at your admission that you personally would not bother
| > with a replacement thermal fuse and would just bypass it. You should

| Hi electricitym
|
| We have to give James a break, as I've noticed he's
| been very helpful, and hopefully will be for a long time
| to come.

The cobbler is the worst shod of men. I had to rewire my last condo before I
sold it as I assumed the new owners wouldn't want live wires twisted
together and un-insulated.

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James Sweet

Jan 1, 1970
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James Sweet:
Over the years I have always appreciated and respected your good
technical advice on this newsgroup as I am certain that others also
have found your advice of value;
HOWEVER
I am shocked at your admission that you personally would not bother
with a replacement thermal fuse and would just bypass it. You should
have ended your reply post with your first phrase "it's best to replace
it" .
Even though you indidcated that it would be your PERSONAL course of
action to bypass the thermal fuse, there will be those readers that
have so respected your previous good advice over the years that they
might follow your own personal BAD advice of bypassing an important OEM
safety device like a thermal fuse. I am shocked and surprised that you
would even consider this course of action and bad repair practice;
personal or otherwise. I am sure that I am not the only one who had
this reaction after seeing your BAD ADVICE reply post.
electricitym

Holy crap, calm down, I stated clearly NOT to do this, as in DO NOT TRY THIS
AT HOME but that *I* would probably (knowing full well it's not a
particularly great idea) do it on a hairdryer, nothing else I can think of,
but a hair dryer, something that's plugged in for only a few moments while
I'm using it. Not a coffee pot, not a heater, not anything wired into the
house, but a hairdryer. As the warning goes, I'm a "professional", don't try
this at home, if you do and it burns the place down, that's your own stupid
problem and you don't need my "advice" to do that. I know I have a heck of a
lot more dangerous items around my house than a hairdryer, modified or not,
it's simply low on the list. (and no, I have not personally ever bypassed a
thermal fuse in anything, never had one fail without the device being
destroyed beyond any point of repairing anyway)

That said, I've had several "protected" unmodified devices go up in smoke
before, a few that if I hadn't caught in time quite likely would have
started a fire, a couple cheap space heaters, an air purifier, and a
computer power supply all come to mind. After those I don't tend to trust
any electrical device particularly and no longer leave any heating
appliances running unattended.
 
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NSM

Jan 1, 1970
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| Holy crap, calm down, I stated clearly NOT to do this, as in DO NOT TRY
THIS
....
| That said, I've had several "protected" unmodified devices go up in smoke
| before, a few that if I hadn't caught in time quite likely would have
....

I used to teach Unix to people whose first exposure to a computer system it
was. I always used to preface my lesson by telling them that it wasn't like
Star Trek, nothing they could do would make the computer explode in flames.
I stopped after one terminal emitted smoke one time (resistor burnt up)!

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Sam Goldwasser

Jan 1, 1970
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NSM said:
| Holy crap, calm down, I stated clearly NOT to do this, as in DO NOT TRY
THIS
...
| That said, I've had several "protected" unmodified devices go up in smoke
| before, a few that if I hadn't caught in time quite likely would have
...

I used to teach Unix to people whose first exposure to a computer system it
was. I always used to preface my lesson by telling them that it wasn't like
Star Trek, nothing they could do would make the computer explode in flames.
I stopped after one terminal emitted smoke one time (resistor burnt up)!

As long as they don't accidentally run the "Execute Programmer" instruction. :)

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NSM

Jan 1, 1970
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| As long as they don't accidentally run the "Execute Programmer"
instruction. :)

Looked more like HCF - Halt and Catch Fire.

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