All the wires except the power cord pass through lugs and are soldered. Interesting. I never took a power strip apart because they aren't supposed to fail.

The bigger the blob, the better the job?

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We used to always joke with the Electronics techs about that.

A classic glass cartridge fuse in the car got me one time. It had a very fine crack across the middle. Touching both ends of the fuse of the multimeter made contact across the crack... Fuse good. Nope.

Speaking of solder blobs, back in the early microcomputer days, solder on S-100 PC boards had to be neat. Some boards were not so good, and you had to break contact between adjacent traces. Happened to a friend. I was lucky.

Not that I lost my house, but I know someone who lost his car and plane collection to an outdated power strip.

Now that it's apart, I can tell that it is (will be) good. As to the age, it's the only one that I have seen that has a fuse.

Long ago, I spotted a fire in the neighbor's garage, while the entire family was in the living room watching tv. It was an electrical fire, I recall. Might have saved the home and lives. I'll check and probably throw away some old lab type power strips that I don't use, and I am downsizing anyway.

Better safe than cheap.

I just checked the electrical equipment at the well pump and booster. I had some grungy work entirely replaced several years ago.

I was an electrician's mate, and bought benders and fish tape for EMT but haven't had the need in recent years. Always ready, though. Semper Paratus.