Always have your extinguisher handy when you're grinding. I was grinding
something on my stripped down TD, and the sparks ignited some old batting
(stuffing under the vinyl upholstery). Boy is that stuff flammable!
Fortunately the extinguisher was near by. Once, my bench grinder set some
steel wool on fire. It didn't require the extinguisher, but who would have
figured brand new clean steel wool was flammable? Anyway I learned those
pretty sparks can be dangerous.
Bob Donahue
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul T. Root" <ptroot@horton.iaces.com>
To: "Kevin & Deana Brown" <MGTRAutoXr@sprintmail.com>
Cc: "mgb-v8" <mgb-v8@autox.team.net>; "MGs" <mgs@autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, November 26, 2004 9:49 AM
Subject: Re: I about burned up two MGs today!
>I have an extingisher mounted on the wall where it
> can be seen. Thinking about it, it's probably too high
> for my boys to reach.
>
> I also have a second one in the MG, until early September
> when we had a cub scout meeting on fire safety. We decided
> to let all the boys shoot off the extingisher, so they know
> what to expect. We didn't have a fire going of course.
>
> Anyway, I bought a new extingisher and have it ready to go
> into the car, when the car goes back on the road in April.
>
> $10-15 for an extingisher, even once a year seems the right
> thing to do.
>
> Glad your cars are ok. And I have garage envy!
>
> Paul.
>
> On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 07:15:27PM -0600, Kevin & Deana Brown wrote:
>> I about burned up two of my MGs today! While trying to time the '86
>> Corvette I suddenly had flames shooting up out of the engine compartment
>> over the windshield!!! This is a car that I had bout a few months ago
>> that needed a little work on it, I had fixed a vacuum leak on the intake
>> and knocked the timing way off because the distributor was loose - so my
>> project today was to time it. I was sitting inside the car at the time
>> letting it idle when all of the sudden all of flames just started
>> shooting up from between the engine and the firewall. I shut the car off
>> and jumped out the flames kept shooting up and were licking over the
>> windshield where I had my service sitting. I couldnt move the car
>> because it was trapped by other vehicles. I thought (hoped!!!) I had a
>> fire extinguisher in the garage. I first glanced over by my welding
>> torch (since I usually grab the extinguisher when I am using the torch),
>> didnt see it there, so I walked over to the pedestrian door in to the
>> garage since I vaguely remembered keeping it there. I moved two folding
>
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