Quality fuses

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arthuy
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Quality fuses

Post by arthuy » Sun Jul 05, 2020 10:50 am

I am sure that I am not alone on this one.

Why is it so hard to buy a quality car fuse these days.

I have original fuses that are nearly 30years old and the quality is far superior to most of the dross available today.

Would go as far to say that the most common to source are dangerous. Plastic melting, blade thin or wide,they really a fire hazard.

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The ones that look like this, cheap plastic and a notch on the blades are the worst culprits.

The only ones I have found of merchantable quality are Bussman/Littlefuse.

We have some of these kits at work, not massively expensive but little use for 20 x 1a & 2a fuses in the kits. https://uk.farnell.com/w/c/circuit-prot ... ade%20fuse

Has anyone used a decent brand recently?

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dcwalker
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Re: Quality fuses

Post by dcwalker » Sun Jul 05, 2020 7:47 pm

:lol: on some of my early scrapyard visits in the mid=nineties when I had my first project 480, I raided a couple of fuse boxes on scrap 480s/440s so my pot of spare fuses contains some "original" quality fuses...

David
Current: 1994 480 GT, 1996 460 CD & 1997 440 LE with lots of optional extras & 2007 V50 SE Sport
Previous: Celebration 331 (re-homed with Richard S), Celebration 467 (returned to Martin Mc); Celebration 346 (re-homed with Alan480); Celebration 269 (scrapped abandoned project), Celebration 73 (sold on after 6 years), 1992 ES, 1988 ES - and numerous other non-480 Volvos!

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Re: Quality fuses

Post by brinkie » Mon Jul 06, 2020 7:10 am

:lol: same here, have a lifetime supply of fuses and relays after stripping 2 480's of its electronics :lol:
Robert.

Present cars: 1994 Volvo 480 GT 2.0i, 1999 Volvo S70 2.5 Europa, 2010 Volvo V70 2.0F Momentum

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Re: Quality fuses

Post by Alan 480 » Mon Jul 06, 2020 7:36 pm

dcwalker wrote:
Sun Jul 05, 2020 7:47 pm
:lol: on some of my early scrapyard visits in the mid=nineties when I had my first project 480, I raided a couple of fuse boxes on scrap 480s/440s so my pot of spare fuses contains some "original" quality fuses...

David
you can never have too many fuses, although usually none of correct size :wink:
Alan

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dcwalker
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Re: Quality fuses

Post by dcwalker » Tue Jul 07, 2020 9:18 pm

Alan 480 wrote:
Mon Jul 06, 2020 7:36 pm
dcwalker wrote:
Sun Jul 05, 2020 7:47 pm
:lol: on some of my early scrapyard visits in the mid=nineties when I had my first project 480, I raided a couple of fuse boxes on scrap 480s/440s so my pot of spare fuses contains some "original" quality fuses...

David
you can never have too many fuses, although usually none of correct size :wink:
Especially when a few cars start demanding them...
Current: 1994 480 GT, 1996 460 CD & 1997 440 LE with lots of optional extras & 2007 V50 SE Sport
Previous: Celebration 331 (re-homed with Richard S), Celebration 467 (returned to Martin Mc); Celebration 346 (re-homed with Alan480); Celebration 269 (scrapped abandoned project), Celebration 73 (sold on after 6 years), 1992 ES, 1988 ES - and numerous other non-480 Volvos!

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