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Old 10-12-2011, 07:43 AM
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A fuse is an all or nothing proposition. Something else must have caused the flickering. Agree. In an old house, there are lots of mechanical splices that oxidize and cause intermittent circuits. In one old house I lived in, one day a table lamp slowly went out, then flickered low. I went in the basement and traced the knob-and-tube wiring from that outlet to a friction-taped splice where I could see a blue glow through the loose tape! That got taken apart and soldered.
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