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Are electrical fuses not in common use in electronics anymore?

Reason I'm asking is that I blew a slow-blow fuse in a reel-to-reel tape deck yesterday and went off in search of a replacement (I really miss Radio Shack). First hardware store I visited carried only fast-blow types -- they weren't marked fast-blow, but you could tell by looking at them. The clerk acted mystified and I got the impression he'd never been asked for such fuses before.

So I ended up at Home Depot, where a succession of clerks couldn't tell me where to find them or if they carried them. I did finally find them myself.

I can't find any evidence of fuses in my cable box or flat-screen TV. Have they become relics while i wasn't looking?

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Topic - Are electrical fuses not in common use in electronics anymore? - Dave Pogue 10:25:52 06/08/16 (28)
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