"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
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Arfa Daily wrote:
You can of course bridge this fuse, but it is a designated safety
component, and if you do, on your own head be it ...

You can buy replacement thermal fuses. Maplin, etc.

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*Why is "abbreviated" such a long word?

Dave Plowman London SW
To e-mail, change noise into sound.

Yes indeed, you can get replacement thermal fuses,but as I said in my reply,
in most cases, it's not possible to remove the original from where it's
buried in the windings. There's no point in trying to fit a replacement
elsewhere on the transformer, as it just won't ever get hot enough to fail
under fault conditions until the tx catches fire !

So, as a " home use only " bodge, if you really want the thing working
again, and are prepared to rush at it with a fire extinguisher if things go
wrong, the original can be shorted either by bridging the tags it's
connected to, if that's the type of tx construction, or cutting back some of
the insulation on the device's legs as they disappear into the windings, and
carefully soldering a wire bridge across, if it's not a tagged type.

I have seen amps in for repair where a previous shop has soldered a wire
ended fuse across an open thermal fuse. I guess that this is better than
just a short, but is by no stretch of the imagination, a valid substitute
for a designated safety component thermal fuse, and I certainly would not
let any such ' repair ' out of my shop and back into a customer's house.

Arfa