I've seen the wire (white cloth normally) and I think it was on a prewar V, maybe even a Z, with the wire wound in a coil round the round style breaker a few times like you might loop any excess.
I only recalled it's replacement tripped slow and too much current bypassed the breaker for my taste. I attributed to the issue that after I did the rollers, the owner had used wire from an extension chord in the resistor wires place because he didn't like the high heat cloth. But he supplied a deralict unit for parts, and so I had an old one to swap in and it seemed to trip faster. He might have had too high a watt bulb in it too, 24v? Now I just like idea of resistance in the light circuits to stop a bad bulb choice from being a big current bleed.
NAPAs and maybe a few others can order a self resetting breaker. That's about as close as your going to get "common and local".
