Tested the fuse on an older power strip. It's OK.

[usonian]

However ...



I'll get out the soldering iron and attend to it.

There needed to be a firm mechanical connection, not just a solder blob, as the above photo proves.

[EarnestPutz]

1. Odd, our friends in Chinese labor are usually better than this.

[usonian]

3. Doesn't say where it was made.

All the wires except the power cord pass through lugs and are soldered. Interesting. I never took a power strip apart because they aren't supposed to fail.

[Jerry2144]

2. But isn't the phrase

The bigger the blob, the better the job?

[usonian]

4. Not in MY workshop.

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[Tetrachloride]

5. Zen and the Art of Welding

published in 1979 by DU University Press

[Jerry2144]

10. I am former Navy Mechanic

We used to always joke with the Electronics techs about that.

[keithbvadu2]

6. A classic glass cartridge fuse in the car got me one time.

A classic glass cartridge fuse in the car got me one time. It had a very fine crack across the middle. Touching both ends of the fuse of the multimeter made contact across the crack... Fuse good. Nope.

[usonian]

7. Glad you didn't have to take the car apart, line I took the power strip apart, to find the break.

Speaking of solder blobs, back in the early microcomputer days, solder on S-100 PC boards had to be neat. Some boards were not so good, and you had to break contact between adjacent traces. Happened to a friend. I was lucky.

[Probatim]

8. Buy a new one - I speak from personal experience, they aren't meant to last forever and you could lose your house.

Not that I lost my house, but I know someone who lost his car and plane collection to an outdated power strip.

[usonian]

9. Thanks for the suggestion.

Now that it's apart, I can tell that it is (will be) good. As to the age, it's the only one that I have seen that has a fuse.

Long ago, I spotted a fire in the neighbor's garage, while the entire family was in the living room watching tv. It was an electrical fire, I recall. Might have saved the home and lives. I'll check and probably throw away some old lab type power strips that I don't use, and I am downsizing anyway.

Better safe than cheap.

I just checked the electrical equipment at the well pump and booster. I had some grungy work entirely replaced several years ago.

I was an electrician's mate, and bought benders and fish tape for EMT but haven't had the need in recent years. Always ready, though. Semper Paratus.