Is there a solid fuse-like item that I can use in place of a fuse, to bypass it?

Yes, red copper, yellow copper, silver, I like red copper. 5mm thick and 20 or 30mm long.

First get the video going. Turn the power switch on take the 5mm x 30mm wire or round stock, smile at the camera and plug it in. When you wake up send us the video. :-) I'll pay ya if it's a good one.

You remove the protection for your gear. The fire protection is at the breaker anyway. If you think about it there isn't a lot of things that have fuses on them. Christmas tree lights, stereo gear? What else?

TV have a breaker, vacuum cleaner? What uses a stupid FUSE? The garbage disposal that's it and stereo gear. It's a conspiracy. :-)

Your house is protect by the breakers. You are protected by ground fault circuits. The fuse is to protect the amp. Houses don’t burn down because of fuses or breakers in equipment. The neighbor did manage to burn 1/2 her house down behind an electric mickey mouse clock in the basement with a 2 wire plug. The wire caught on fire and NEVER blew a breaker. It was ruled improperly wired. A licensed contractor and the CITY signed off on it 11 months before. It was suppose to be a GFI or some weird protection circuit. Like for a swimming pool. Their basement floods it has a sump and pump..

Usually fires are heaters, or kitchen fires. I’ve seen caps blow. BUT I’ve never seen amps catch on fire. Tube fires are pretty cool.. LOL

My stuff just dies. I have dropped a couple boom boxes off buildings.. That’s cool. They explode.