So, I'm thinkin' maybe one could build a button-start fire-wire!! Maybe I'll have my pyro kid do that...<br>Paul Bruesch<br>Stillwater, MN<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/29/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">
Alan Barnard</b> <<a href="mailto:tune4u@earthlink.net">tune4u@earthlink.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<p align="left"><font face="arial,helvetica">You've probably seen this, but if you brush fine steel wool across the terminals of a little old nine-volt batter, it will burst into flames. <br><br>Alan Barnard<br>Salem, MO
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pianotech@ptg.org</a><br>Received: 8/28/2007 5:52:40 PM<br>Subject: Unexpected fire hazard in shop<span class="q"><br><br>
<p align="left"><font face="arial,helvetica"><font face="Arial" lang="0" size="2">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!!
<br><br>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.
<br><br>Watch your sparks!<br><br>John Baird</font> </font></p>
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