co worker and I just got done talking about the old mercury switches. His mom still uses hers from the 60s. They just dont break.
The wall heater I have has a mercury switch. Heater started spewing out smoke and I ran to turn it off then taped the breaker in the off position. Switch still works though. Just grabbed my space heater out of the garage. Only "need" a heater for maybe a month here.
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