My daughter was using the 1954 Singer sewing machine. She left the room. The other daughter reported a strange noise... The sewing machine had started up and sewed a seam all by itself. The insides of the suppressor capacitor that goes across the full power contacts and variable resistor in the foot control had melted and shorted out...
I think I melted it a few days ago sewing canvas for a cover for the tiller of my boat. But it took until today to become 8.2 ohms. And I had taken the whole thing apart not so long ago because it was wired so that when you turned on the light, the motor would run very slowly because the light was wired across the foot pedal rather than live and neutral.. Its all double insulated Bakelite, not an earth in sight, because it most likely got its first power from a plug going into a BC light fitting, when whoever saved up for it first started using it, probably having difficulty because they could either have a light bulb or a sewing machine on in the room. . Then getting some of those brilliant 15 amp mains sockets we used to poke a bit of coathanger wire in at school and then turn on with a hockey stick for the explosion.. 100 amp ring main fuses I believe. We never blew one.
Not 100 amp ring main fuses- more likely 30 amp fuse wire with an actual melting point at about 100 amp.
My windscreen wipers are the same, they won't turn off until the windscreen is not lubricated by rain - shame to fix them really. Sent from my MotoG3 using Tapatalk
So then what happened? We managed to extinguish all the ovens in domestic science next door then cause an explosion when they relit them. And I’m the one telling Zed off for swapping over a live fuel hose.
