Normal right?

[GRN ENVY]

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[DAB]

220,221, whatever it takes.

Time for a new outlet and new receptacle.



Turn off the breaker. :slap:

[island14]

and take the penny out from behind the fuse. :D

[GRN ENVY]

220,221, whatever it takes.

Time for a new outlet and new receptacle.



Turn off the breaker. :slap:

First thing I did

[Bill]

Stop overfilling the dryer.

[DAB]

Stop overfilling the dryer.

underwear gnomes are hell on dryers.

[VITE1]

That does not look good.

[Mike Mercury]

and take the penny out from behind the fuse. :D

OMG; you mean a Lincoln fuse?

ever hear of a Wrigleys fuse ??????

:funny:

[86RAG]

ever hear of a Wrigleys fuse ??????

:funny:

Use to use those in my old cars in an emergency! :yesnod:

[simpleman68]

Time to call the landlord to get an electrician down there to re-wire that one.

Usually a loose contact point inside that creates the heat build up that causes that. Damn quick way to start a fire.
That arc will cut chunks out of your linesman. (wire cutters)
Scott

[Black94lt1]

ever hear of a Wrigleys fuse ??????

:funny:

Haven't heard that one in a long time :seasix:

[Sea Six]

Does your building have aluminum wiring?

[DAB]

Does your building have aluminum wiring?

aluminum for a 220V is fine, it's the 120V that you need to watch for.

[mrvette]

and take the penny out from behind the fuse. :D

Anything like a no blo fuse will do nothing about the above failure, what happens is the pin with one of the phases got corroded along with the socket, and high resistance allowed so much voltage drop across it, that it further corroded and finally burnt out......in actual fact the CURRENT on that 1/2 of the 220 breaker was drawing less power, due to increased resistance in that circuit.....

BTW, I used to screw 60 amp fuses into Dad's BX wired old house when I was a kid playing in the basement.....Used to buy old WW2 surplus stuff from a dealer in town, got hold of an old 24 volt LARGE supply from some theater lights, as I recall.....well I fired up a Dynamotor.......~24 volts input from a .mil vacuum tube transmitter.....with 600 volts rated output under load.....

but with open load on the 600 side, I would let that motor wind up really high, and take the hot lead, and flash it off the chassis ground, like I was handling a whip.......the electric arc was amazing flash over about 15-18 inches.......told you all I was a nerd/geek/tech head.....

My mom saw me do that once, and about dropped the cloths basket right there on the basement stairs.....told Dad about it so I showed him.....

:issues::rofl:

[Jobaka]

Anything like a no blo fuse will do nothing about the above failure, what happens is the pin with one of the phases got corroded along with the socket, and high resistance allowed so much voltage drop across it, that it further corroded and finally burnt out......in actual fact the CURRENT on that 1/2 of the 220 breaker was drawing less power, due to increased resistance in that circuit.....

BTW, I used to screw 60 amp fuses into Dad's BX wired old house when I was a kid playing in the basement.....Used to buy old WW2 surplus stuff from a dealer in town, got hold of an old 24 volt LARGE supply from some theater lights, as I recall.....well I fired up a Dynamotor.......~24 volts input from a .mil vacuum tube transmitter.....with 600 volts rated output under load.....

but with open load on the 600 side, I would let that motor wind up really high, and take the hot lead, and flash it off the chassis ground, like I was handling a whip.......the electric arc was amazing flash over about 15-18 inches.......told you all I was a nerd/geek/tech head.....

My mom saw me do that once, and about dropped the cloths basket right there on the basement stairs.....told Dad about it so I showed him.....

:issues::rofl:



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[Y2Kvert4me]

Gene needs a new avatar...

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[GRN ENVY]

Called the landlord last night, getting an electrician scheduled to come today, to fix and check out the rest of the house

[GRN ENVY]

Stop overfilling the dryer.

It happened when the drier was off

[mrvette]

aluminum for a 220V is fine, it's the 120V that you need to watch for.

THAT is the part that don't make a whole lot of sense to me, but all my heavier circuits are copper now, the 15 amp lighting to the 3 old bedrooms and about 1/2 the LR, are aluminum and never an issue that I know of, not much drain on there these daze anyway, due to it's just lo drain lighting been that way since '72 same years as the vette, when house was built.....

my drier has like 8 ga copper on it 30 amp, and jumped over to the air compressor with 10 ga, still safe...HOT WATER HEATER is copper also....so is the well pump and HVAC....and all the kitchen/bath wiring.....

:seasix::hurray:

[Mike Mercury]

Haven't heard that one in a long time :seasix:

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[Sea Six]

It happened when the drier was off

What other item was the dryer drier than?

And how much drier was the dryer?

[Bill]

It happened when the drier was off

What other item was the dryer drier than?

And how much drier was the dryer?



:slap:

Don't be a doofus, Sea Six. He just said the lady that does the laundry wasn't even working the day the plug overheated.

[Mike Mercury]

And how much drier was the dryer?

was the hot water heater running at the same time ?

[mrvette]

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OH MAN, you shagging my memory back some 40 years now, maybe more....

On Connecticut ave NW Wash DC, there was this Army outfit I forget the name of....but through many a decade the conducted research in a ~4 story high HUGE copper lines room, with those fat squashed balloon looking arc towers.......I remember being inside the building when they moving out to NIST Nat. Inst. Standards/Tech in G'burg.....so the effort basically switched locations and agencies.....the old building was at Van Ness Center.....now a DC college of some sort.....

Well, the inside of that entire copper clad interior looked not so much different than your pix above......except no lightening bolts being created when I saw it....a buddy helping demo the joint said to GO there and see it, cool as hell, he correct.....

What the ARMY was doing there was to figger out how to store AMMO, so that when lightening came over and struck the ammo dump, the whole damn joint go up at once......

The copper lined room was to kill RFI so every experiment did not kill all the communications for miles around......


:issues::lol::seasix::hurray:

[OldSarge]

OMG; you mean a Lincoln fuse?

ever hear of a Wrigleys fuse ??????

:funny:

I think a lot of us used to do that in our cars in a pinch.

[GRN ENVY]

was the hot water heater running at the same time ?

Both are on their own circuits