Newbie question cannot get fuse out of fusebox

[Rupesjoel]

Dear All,

I need to change the fuse in a standard household Ashley fusebox but I cannot pull the fuse out, no matter how hard I try. The fuse looks a like a standard cartridge type fuse(16 A MCB16).

There is a small key in the lid of the fusebox which looks like a paper clip opened out, but I cannot work out how to use that. I would post a photo of the fusebox but I cannot on this forum yet.

Any ideas would be gratefully received.

Many thanks,

Rupes

 

[Engineer54]

bloody 'ell. think i'll relocate. and wtf is 12am? 12 is either noon or midnight. it's not before or after 12, it is 12.

Actually it's not!! 12am is midnight denoting going into the am hours and 12pm is midday denoting going into the pm hours. You need to distinguish the two when working on a 12 hour clock. Whereas 1200 hrs and 2400 hrs is self explanatory!! lol!!! Just couldn't resist!!:angel_smile:

 

[telectrix]

agree it is going into those hours. 12.00.01 is am or pm, but 12.00.00 is noon or midnight.

 

[Geoffsd]

The 'm' refers to the meridian i.e. noon.

Therefore 12 mid-day is neither before (a) nor after (p) 'm' and

12 midnight is both 12am and 12pm.

 

[Steve_P]

Yeah but by the time you say it, it's afternoon (after 12.00 = noon). Unless of course you say, at the 3rd pip, the time according to ME will be 12 mid day, pip pip pip.

 

[Poptasticdave]

Whilst we are all raising our hands in horror at the OP's lack of (safe) knowledge, this does remind me of an incident in my first teaching post, where the (apparently) well experienced and qualified Network Manager made exactly the same error and was found, by a thankfully better informed woodwork teacher, trying to use a plain steel cold chisel to prise out a 32A MCB from a metal clad 3 phase dist board, which was live and, quote the said person "could not be isolated as it powers the servers".
if a supposedly technically qualified IT "expert" can make such lethal and crass mistakes there's no wonder the OP did!

 

[vjsmarwick]

i cant believe this is a sparks forum and yet every tom dick and harry can ask for advise on doing something we all know they should not be touching.
going by the post by this guy i don't think he should even be allowed out on his own !

" a key like thing in the lid of the fusebox that looks like a straightened paper clip and he cant figure out how to use it "

My god another member of the public about to kill himself through lack of knowledge and it will be marked down as an electrical death how can we keep allowing this to be on our forums.
there must be some way of making it for sparks only ?
I joined thinking i could learn along with my fellow trades men but i am starting to think the information we are posting for all to see is making everyone think that our job is easy and they can all do it ?

 

[DPG]

Going by that theory, you wouldn't be allowed to ask questions on car repair forums, it forums, any other forums. Daz

 

[Adam W]

I would have thought it was clear that they mean midnight - why would they charge differently in the afternoon, with a cheaper hourly rate in the morning?
7am till midnight is the standard rate, midnight till 7am you have to pay an antisocial hours surcharge because it's in the middle of the night.

 

[ayjay]

ok can we get away from whats midnight ?lets avoid that crap?
the op is a tenant not a sparky
he simply asked a simple question did he not?
some of you on here beleive yourselves to be above your stations imo
its a public forum --ok

 

[vjsmarwick]

mmm lest see maybe we should just explain how to wire a house here and let everyone get on with the job and never mind if we think people are competent enough to carry it out ?
seems part p and all the other safety rules we spent 4 years learning suddenly don't apply
i do not believe i am above my station but i do think there are certain things that we as qualified responsible trades men should not be encouraging members of the public with little or no knowledge to be doing !
It was clear to everyone that the op does not have the first idea of what he is doing !

 

[Steve_P]

Putting things in perspective, the OP was by the sounds of it, trying to do what they thought would be a favour to their landlord and after finding out on here that it wasn't a simple thing to do and would probably end up frying themselves decided to look into getting a qualified spark. Surely by posting the question on here and receiving some sound advice they are now doing something that they probably wouldn't be doing if they hadn't asked the question in the first place - breathing!

 

[GLENNSPARK]

i cant believe this is a sparks forum and yet every tom dick and harry can ask for advise on doing something we all know they should not be touching.
going by the post by this guy i don't think he should even be allowed out on his own !

" a key like thing in the lid of the fusebox that looks like a straightened paper clip and he cant figure out how to use it "

My god another member of the public about to kill himself through lack of knowledge and it will be marked down as an electrical death how can we keep allowing this to be on our forums.
there must be some way of making it for sparks only ?
I joined thinking i could learn along with my fellow trades men but i am starting to think the information we are posting for all to see is making everyone think that our job is easy and they can all do it ?

quite right....i wonder if he can cross the road safely?...lol...
almost bloody farcical.....in fact it is...

 

[Stroppy]

To be honest I'm still not sure what his straightened paper clip thing actually is!

 

[telectrix]

To be honest I'm still not sure what his straightened paper clip thing actually is!

probably the cut-off ends from the sealing wire.

 

[ayjay]

cosy little club here
its not like he,s removed the lid is it
this is a public forum, anyone can ask a question