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Re: Shop Safety

To: Joe Amo <jkamo@rapidnet.com>, Land-speed group <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: Shop Safety
From: Kris Wright <kw@cimsoft.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 12:22:52 -0600
How about Safety Everywhere!  Heck I was drying my hair
Mon morning and smoke started coming out of my hair
dryer, then white and bluish sparks started flying out.  After
about 9 years, guess it's time for a new one.
Fire is a bitch!
Kris Wright

> > ""Safety-- how about grounding the vehicle while working on it, fire's a
> > bitch!""
>
> Yeah but if your "grinding" on it, grounding wont help   haha ha
>
> Should share that at this year Bonneville:  Jon and I had just filled our 5 lb
> nitrous bottle, we carried it to the bike and attempted to fasten the AN end 
>of
> the braided stainless line to the bottle, we were shocked to see white and 
>bluish
> sparks flying from the attempted connection, I initially thought that my 
>nitrous
> line on the bike was shorted to positive, a quick check with multimeter found 
>no
> continuity between the line and ground or positive, so we assumed that the 
>bottle
> was statically charged somehow from the filling process/Bonneville's 
>conductive
> air.     Joe  :)
>
> Nt788@aol.com wrote:
>
> > Safety-- how about grounding the vehicle while working on it, fire's a 
>bitch!


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