Don't screw anything in the plug fuse sockets but proper sized fuses. The two pullouts probably have something written on them like: Range and Main, the one that says "main" when pulled should kill power to all four plug fuses below
BEFORE you go messing with the broken fuse, connect a wire to a good ground like the shell of the main panel, pull the main and then MAKE certain its dead, preferably with a meter but if not put the grounded wire to the center of the fuse and look for sparks.
I had a fuse box that pulling main did NOT kill all the fuses:(
ended up pulling the meter to get the broken fuse out.
some will certinally say shorting to the fuse is wrong, but this PROVES it dead and is way better than getting shocked!
right now I have a meter that isnt working all the time:( with such a meter checking for power at the fuse could lead to a deadly wrong conclusion.
I have gotten wrapped so much over the years I dont usually get upset, but do TRY to avoid it!
One fine day I leaned on a steam radiator to pull a plug on a radio, So I could plug in the jammed copier.... I was there to fix it....
Next thing I knew I was on the floor across the room:(
Idiot customer noticed radio power plug was bad and wrapped masking tape around wires:(
By the time I touched it and couldnt see it buried behind stuff, the masking tape had dried out and mostly fallen off.
I took the radio masking tape and all to the principal and reported what happened and pointed out a student could of been killed! Then cut the power plug off the radio so no one else got hit.... while the principal watched...
Across my heat with that good ground it was a close thing.
I avoid touching any grounded things whenever possible.......
Of course you are just jerking around about the penny (I hope, or you have "issues"). But my grandfather used to do this in boxes with glass fuses and cloth covered wire. We were lil tykes but me and bro recall laughing our asses off when he took a jolt and flew back a bit.
Poor gramps. Just tryin to spend a penny to save a nickel.
How? You are so smart you should be able to figure that out. It is simple. It is not the load you think you are pulling that is blowing the fuse. You have a short that is pulling way more than your espresso machine somewhere in that circuit or the machine itself is shorted. Not to worry tho, the penny should fix it, after all when the house burns down, re-wiring is simple.
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