My brand new second hand super safe 14 Amp Vulcanizer

[adrianh]

I purchased this machine a while back and finally got the time today to strip it and give it a good going over. I was truly mesmerized by the superior quality of the electrical "engineering" that went into the manufacture of the device. I measured that it draws 14 Amps when the elements are powered. The "engineer" used a wide variety of wire thicknesses, mixed colors and choc blocks to assemble the circuit to his precise specifications. He installed a main power switch but never wired it in (maybe that would have required too many odd bits of colored wire and all the choc blocks in his Tupperware container of high quality parts salvaged from the local garbage dump.) Of course all the wires pass through little holes in the steel plating with no glands (none were available at the dump that day). Why in the world would one need overload protection or even a power switch for that matter, when you plug it in its on and there is as much as there is to it.

I don't mind though, I understood the risk when I bought it. It works and I'll make it better.

Bottom line....when you buy anything electrical secondhand, open it up and take a look - you may just find an "engineering" masterpiece that could burn your house down!