They are all over the sunroom metal frames.

As an example, if I were to replace a metal awning on a craftsman home with something more period accurate or add a covered porch to a bungalow, I'm hoping to find resources and sources of inspiration for doing this in a manner true to the home and its original design.

Then they rebounded like a coiled spring. 

The city has yet to conclude whether the cause was natural , in the case which they would be reimbursing us , or whether the tenant had done something to actually damage the underground cable.Within weeks , they called my mother in to help out with problems with the garage door , we went over there and found that the garage door had actually been partially unhinged ; the roller on one side had been dislodged from the supporting metal beam , the metal beam itself was bent considerably due to the weight of the garage door being shifted to the right .

For metal I'd rather invest in silver, as it has more utility and is historically undervalued against gold right now.

Like @Troy Sheets mentioned it is likely a dead short somewhere in the circuit, could be as simple as the hot leg on the recepticle shorting to the grounded metal box (assuming its a metal box), Or it could be a pinched staple or melted wire, hundreds of other possibilitiesIf its a melted wire you have a bigger problem, there should be no possible way a standard gauge wire could carry enough current to melt the wire.

You may find a lot of that era elect boxes are metal with metal retaining clips.

So, it got a new metal roof.

I like metals in small useable pieces.

Or when I meet a contractor to give him access to change the interior coil?