Re: No glass break tube install a piece of wire in Pull Station ? WTF

[jewellfish <jewellfish@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Jul 2, 9:48=A0pm, Jim <alarmi...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Jul 2, 3:15=A0pm, "RockyTSquirrel" <gafa_...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > From the what the fuck was this ass hole thinking =A0hall of dishonor.
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> > replaced an old Fire-lite Miniscan 112 yesterday that had original BG
> > 1 pull stations from 50's
> > when person who serviced alarm could not longer get break glass pieces
> > or was too fucking lazy to buy them or find them they took a piece of
> > 12 # gauge wire and put them in them thereby assuring they could never
> > be activated and pulled open if there was a fire on the manual pull
> > only system in this old building =A0what a fucking moron.
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> > do you one better =A0Nick,
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> > public school system, =A0Louisville KY USA, =A0 maintenance men, =A0at =
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> > direction of the principal, =A0install nail's in the pull stations to a=
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> > student pulled false alarms..
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> > RTS
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> Ran into the same situation a number of years ago. The original pulls
> had glass rods. I know that they're still available for this
> particular pull but some one at least had the presence of mind to use
> a wooden dowel.
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> I thought about it later and maybe a wooden dowel should have been
> used in the first place. If ya think about it for a minute ..... =A0If a
> fire started, maybe it would burn the dowel before it activated a
> detector ..... =A0 =A0:-)))
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> A NAIL!!!!! =A0 Jeeeeez ...... wotta jerk!
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> He should have put them in locked cases and chained the doors shut too.

I have encountered the same fix, although in my case the repair had
been made with an old wooden fireplace match (head still attached).  I
thought, well, at least if there was a fire the head would catch,
pretty quick, and burn through allowing the handle to drop...