Exciting developments afoot, please stand by and forgive interruptions in the normal^* programming stream.

From an early age I would crack the shell on stuff, just to see how it works (regardless of understanding anything in there or not). I continue, to this day, to continue this habit; not so much to see how it works, but to check condition. The bank of fuses pictured here was (actually, IS) housed within a reel to reel that appears pretty clean from the exterior. Not exactly the best substrate for contained current...

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