Re: House fire blamed on smoke detector

[Jim <alarminex@xxxxxxx>]

On Mar 10, 10:08=EF=BF=BDam, "Petem" <petem...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> "westom" <west...@xxxxxxxxx> a =EF=BF=BDcrit dans le message de groupe de=
 discussion
> : 983a7f59-8555-4dc3-9d98-4d165fedd...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> > On Mar 9, 7:59 pm, "Crash Gordon" <webmas...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > wrote:
> >> Could be they were 20 years old and never cleaned either.
>
> > =EF=BF=BDYou dated yourself. =EF=BF=BDVacuum tube TVs with tens of thou=
sands of volts
> > and plenty of heat were routinely chock full of dust. =EF=BF=BDDust was=
 not
> > harmful and did not create fires. =EF=BF=BDDust remained because nobody=
 wanted
> > to stick their hand in there. Dust would not start a fire. =EF=BF=BDSo =
it was
> > left inside hot, high voltage TVs.
>
> I've seen dust burst in fire in Ham radio linear lamp amplifier, Small fi=
re
> that never did any wrong, but its because most of those amplifier were bu=
ilt
> in metal case to prevent RF from leaking out too much.. Lets think about =
a
> wooden case...what would happen...

Petrum
I just thought I clear this up for you.

When someone says that that have a    "wood" stove, that doesn't mean
that the stove is made out of wood. :-)