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Old Dec 17, 2017 | 03:16 AM
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This one was posted on the C3 forum. Couldn't help cracking up. .. Bubba top five award candidate?
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Originally Posted by mrg
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This one was posted on the C3 forum. Couldn't help cracking up. .. Bubba top five award candidate?

Notice he's gone with thicker bolts in some areas, incredibly savy, this is Bubba at his electrical engineering best, easily a top five award...
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I'm left speechless.

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nah... that's right up there with using 22 bullets, aluminum foil around a blown fuse, and pennies behind household fuses... (although I think the 22 bullet should go to the top...(Snopes says it's urban legend tho))

Mythbusters says otherwise

https://www.discovery.com/tv-shows/m...-fuse-minimyth

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He's even got one regular fuse wrapped in perhaps 20 ga copper wire. He's calculated this all out
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This guy is at the top of his class....
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Cool--What could go wrong??
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Cool--What could go wrong??
Boy,I just can't imagine....


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Those 10-32 screws are a bit small but I've never blown out a 1/4-28 Allan cap screw. Get 2 more Allen caps and your golden.
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Looks like the rust deposits on the exterior of the fuse glass might be conductive all by itself......
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Looks like the rust deposits on the exterior of the fuse glass might be conductive all by itself......
Those aren't rust deposits, that's soot from the smoldering wiring...
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He varied the size based on the amperage ! good to go
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Originally Posted by Vettrocious
Boy,I just can't imagine....

this didn't happen from a fuse, gas leak and poor spark plug wiring instead; same end result tho...

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