As of last night, the power is back in full! Joy. After locating the fuse box, Dick! offered to buy some fuses for me at the grocery store while I spent obligatory - ahem - quality time with my parents. He came over post-parental bonding to replace the burnt fuse, but, it turns out, none of the fuses were actually burnt or damaged. Most perplexing. After a little bit of courageous fiddling (it is the Box of Potential Electrocution, after all), Dick had the power on. What finally did it? In the line of the 3 fuses in the box was a fourth weird thing, a cylindrical metal thingy with a white knob/button in the middle. Dick! pushed the white knob/button in, and voila, power back on. What the hell that metal non-fuse thing is, I haven't a clue. Maybe an old-school fuse?
Ah, the joys of a 60-year-old electrical system.
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That is a circuit breaker, like normal people have. It's resettable, so it's better than fuses. There are some breakers that are designed to replace a fuse directly.
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