need fuse help?

[oldno3fan]

i recently won 3200 fuses for 6.00
http://cgi.ebay.com/fuse-bussman-fu...ryZ50551QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
they dont look like car fuses there ? anybodys guess can somebody tell me are they industrial or what im lost here

 

[nissan_crawler]

Ok, so you bought an auction not knowing what you were bidding on...interesting.

Those are older car/boat/truck/farm equipment/electronic/I'm sure some industrial/god knows what else fuses. They were very common, and still are fairly common.

 

[Junkman]

I recognize the smaller fuses that are packed 5 to a plastic/metal slide case as being for cars. The only way that you will sell these off is if you take them to a car swap meet. Depending on the numbers, I could use a few boxes. If you want help selling them I go to spring and fall Carlisle, and could give them a try there. Just don't plan on buying any fancy expensive tools with the profits...

PS.... I could use a couple boxes of AGC15

 

[rodm1]

some of the large solid ones are, time delay to protect electrical components from excess current.

 

[ImportTuner]

Alot of electrical equipment uses those fuses; when I was a Customer Engineer for HP, those fuses were used alot in test equipment, Unix servers, medical equipment, etc ...

 

[TheToolMan]

If you bought them to sell them se may buy them from you. Call me tommorow and i will get you on touch with a buyer at work, www.plccenter.com I will p.m. you my work phone number

 

[oldno3fan]

i guess i thought i was getting something like this
http://www.northerntool.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/product_6970_200321237_200321237
but alot cheaper

 

[Moose-LandTran]

I don't think you can go wrong for $6..

 

[oldno3fan]

what does abbreviations mean like agc agu etc...

 

[nissan_crawler]

I don't think you can go wrong for $6..

Agreed on that. Honestly, factory fuses in cars are very high quality. They don't want their junk burning up under warranty. I always steal the fuses out of the boxes when I'm in junkyard. Avoid HF and el cheapo fuses like the plague. A $.03 fuse could cost you a $20,000 car.

 

[Moose-LandTran]

Whe my friends and i go to a junk yard to get engines/gearboxes/donor cars we take a pickup with a compressor and generator on it, so we can run air tools. We take as many nuts/bolts as we can off the cars, you never know when you'll need one and they're top quality. I use VW subframe bolts for the "pins" in jackstands. you can drop a car on them and you won't even flatten the threads.

 

[billymade]

Buss makes excellent products; why don't you just go to their website and look up the part #'s? http://www.cooperbussmann.com/CooperBussmannBrand.html Maybe wouldn't tell you the application but would give you more info! Seems like you could make some money from the initial $6 investment; fuses arn't cheap but who knows how much you could make!

 

[Fedwrench]

Agreed on that. Honestly, factory fuses in cars are very high quality. They don't want their junk burning up under warranty. I always steal the fuses out of the boxes when I'm in junkyard. Avoid HF and el cheapo fuses like the plague. A $.03 fuse could cost you a $20,000 car.

This is very true. GM even put out a TSB about never using aftermarket fuses. They did tests where some generic imported 10 amp fuses had loads of over 30 amps applied to them without failing. Given the price of modules, the fraility of modern wiring harnesses, and high speed communication networks, you could really be setting yourself up for failure using cheap imported fuses.

 

[danc333]

Not a bad deal. I just spent $4 for a five pack of fuses for my 20amp Astron power supply.

 

[Stick]

what does abbreviations mean like agc agu etc...

That is what style of fuse. Most cars nowdays use an ATO/ATC or ATmini or ATmaxi fuse style. Some european cars use a bosch or lucas style. Older american cars and some modern electronics use the glass AGC or AGU styles.

 

[Junkman]

That is what style of fuse. Most cars nowdays use an ATO/ATC or ATmini or ATmaxi fuse style. Some european cars use a bosch or lucas style. Older american cars and some modern electronics use the glass AGC or AGU styles.

Don't forget SFE...... I am not certain, but I believe that the letter codes are the length and diameter of the fuses. When I had my shop, there were about a dozen different fuses that we would routinely stock replacements.