...and out went all the lights!

[venta]

I just lifted the iron down from the shelf, and found its base was covered in rust. I cleaned it off with a brillo pad, but fear I might have got some water in the works because plugging it in shorted out the power for the entire house. Twice.

hendybear, maybe we shouldn't have used the iron to defrost the freezer after all.

Comments

[onebyone.livejournal.com]

Unless it's shorting to earth, or course, in which case you very much want an RCD to go, rather than hanging around waiting for some stupid bit of fuse wire to melt.

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

Good point, I wasn't thinking of that! -- but fortunately changing the iron's own fuse from 13A to 5A shouldn't affect that scenario adversely.