While Dan was using the sawzall to cut up the old tub over the weekend the power to a light socket and a outlet went out. No big deal right, I have been collecting fuses from estate sales and have oodles of them for this very reason. Well we looked on Yate's map, and checked the fuses...all were fine, nothing blown...uh-o that's not good. So on NYD (official work holiday) the wires were investigated. Dan tore out a bunch of junk wires that were not connected to anything, used his volt meeter to trace the lines and I got to play "what does this fuse do?". This is what we found just above the washing machine:
Eeek! The draw from the radio, the light bulb and sawzall was just too much for the little old copper twist. The wires were charred causing resistance thus not flowing current to the outlet causing them to fail. Old Knob and Tube wiring is fine as long as you don't splice into it and do dumb things like the photo above. Honestly the sketchy wiring in the house is the "modern" Romex!
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