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Offline mk162

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I think it's salvageable.
« on: March 06, 2012, 12:49:52 PM »
no, it did not come out of my shop.  My friend left his flash unit on overnight...in the basement of his house.
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Offline Denis Kolar

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Re: I think it's salvageable.
« Reply #1 on: March 06, 2012, 12:53:21 PM »
And the house is still standing?

Lucky
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Re: I think it's salvageable.
« Reply #2 on: March 06, 2012, 12:54:50 PM »
Wow no smoke detectors hu

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Offline Fresh Baked Printing

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Re: I think it's salvageable.
« Reply #3 on: March 06, 2012, 01:02:01 PM »
Overnight? Wow, lucky!!
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Re: I think it's salvageable.
« Reply #4 on: March 06, 2012, 01:06:02 PM »
it'll buff out. little wood filler. . .good as new.


tell him to go play the lotto today.
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Offline mk162

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Re: I think it's salvageable.
« Reply #5 on: March 06, 2012, 01:08:36 PM »
I know, I have never seen one that bad.  I am surprised it didn't start a fire.

Luckily Action Engineering is in town, so he can get a replacement quick.  Also, Brannon makes them as well.  I also have some of these left over too.  I can't believe the house is standing.
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Re: I think it's salvageable.
« Reply #6 on: March 06, 2012, 01:31:28 PM »
Calling Dr. Frog, Dr. Howard, Dr. Frog.
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Re: I think it's salvageable.
« Reply #7 on: March 06, 2012, 01:32:52 PM »
I hate to admit it, but I turned a silicone sheet from an Action Engineering solid AL platen into a possible museum specimen about two weeks ago.

It was clearly the worst one I've ever done, but OVERNIGHT!?!?!?!! NOT EVEN MAYBE.

Your friend has a Guardian Angel, period. Luck doesn't even enter the picture, unless his basement is an empty concrete bunker.

I had flames 4 feet above the water soaked towel I used to smother the inferno which also eventually ignited, and I think my incident was about 15 minutes.

Yes. I'll second the lottery ticket idea.

« Last Edit: March 06, 2012, 01:35:33 PM by Itsa Little CrOoked »
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Offline Donnie

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Re: I think it's salvageable.
« Reply #8 on: March 06, 2012, 01:35:55 PM »
How do you like your pallets? Burn that bitch to the ground and send it out. ;)
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Re: I think it's salvageable.
« Reply #9 on: March 06, 2012, 02:01:10 PM »
Had it not been for my final walk through last night.. I would have done the same thing.. found the flash was on high rather than off and the outside 1" of paper on the board was brown as the platens were swung out a little.

With my luck, it would have burned the house down.
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Offline Gilligan

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Re: I think it's salvageable.
« Reply #10 on: March 06, 2012, 02:15:09 PM »
Quote from: jsheridan on March 06, 2012, 02:01:10 PM
Had it not been for my final walk through last night.. I would have done the same thing.. found the flash was on high rather than off and the outside 1" of paper on the board was brown as the platens were swung out a little.

With my luck, it would have burned the house down.

Wrong way to look at that my friend.  "With your luck" you just caught it before it had the chance!

Never underestimate one last "idiot check".
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Offline Shawn (EIP)

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Re: I think it's salvageable.
« Reply #11 on: March 06, 2012, 02:45:47 PM »
Nothing much is worse than the smell of buring a tacked shirt board other than curing 50/50's  , it's a smell that makes me gag.
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Re: I think it's salvageable.
« Reply #12 on: March 06, 2012, 02:48:23 PM »
A disconnect for the entire shop was always on my mind when we used IR flashes.
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Re: I think it's salvageable.
« Reply #13 on: March 06, 2012, 03:17:05 PM »
A disconnect is a good thing, but wouldn't have helped me (in case any don't know, I burned down my shop some years back) as I thought that I was just going into the house for a minute since I was in the middle of a job.
One thing lead to another, and ten mintes later, my life changed.
The irony is that the "emergency" for which my wife called me in completely pales in comparison to the emergency I created.

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Re: I think it's salvageable.
« Reply #14 on: March 06, 2012, 03:28:47 PM »
Yikes! Dang Frog, thats serious! I didn't know flashes could start fires, I'm always trying to light my cigarettes on them when I forget a lighter... never works :P

Once I had left my flash on for a weekend! I came back and saw it still plugged in, thank god I swung it from the platen, I could have come back to cinders
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