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Dave B;
Dave did not state the year of his 1800, but from "fabric wire jacket" you know it to be an early 1800...and early P1800s do not use conical end eurofuses. Also, and there's really nothing inherently wrong with those fuses which just a modest amount of maintenance can keep working just dandy FOREVER...and by maintenance* I only mean keeping the ends clean and free of corrosion and applying a dab of zinc-paste. Ask any 122 owners and about a million original Volkswagen bug owners too! With time, if ignored, contact problems develop. If kept clean (and better yet with a gas tight joint to the contact), you can just about forget about them unless one truly opens as a result of an overcurrent.
I outright disagree that eurofuses are difficult to remove or install unless you're wearing mittens.
The Glass bodied replacements dO NOT address OR FIX the problem of galvanic corrosion due to the contact of dissimilar metals (so even the gold plated ones available will not prevent this, only slow it down), the ONLY long-term solution is a gas tight joint, made by using anti-corrosive paste.
The best (and "easy and cheap" solution) is to clean and treat the fuse ends.
* ...and don't get me wrong...I don't spend every weekend communing with my cars (nor do I want to...I would by a British car if I wanted to do work on it for an hour for every two road hours)...I have a life, and so I basically square them away, and then make them work for me, while I do my best to ignore them...that's why I developed long-term fixes and improvements...these allow me to do the other things I want to and keep me from necessarily having to fiddlefart around after something fails.
Cheers
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