Unexpected fire hazard in shop

JBairdRPT at cs.com JBairdRPT at cs.com
Tue Aug 28 20:52:40 MDT 2007


Today I had a fresh roll of 0000 steel wool catch fire from grinder sparks. 
Just 5 seconds of low level flame (like alcohol flames) and another 5 second of 
glowing strands until it went out. Of course it went out -- steel is not a 
combustible material!!

I was using an angle grinder (hand held, and this wasn't piano work). The 
sparks were shooting about 3 feet across my bench where the roll of steel wool 
was. If it had been resting on something like paper towel, that might have been 
more serious.

Watch your sparks!

John Baird   
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