I remembered that my fire extinguisher needs replacing, as I carried a burning mower from my bench, and threw it out the garage door yesterday. It wasn't nearly as heavy as I remembered; perhaps due to the adrenaline. The fire was hot enough, to give perspective, to burn through the rope in the few seconds between it catching on fire and being moved off the bench.
The words idiot, and moron came to mind as I lifted my welding hood and watched the fire coming off the mower, that was laying on its side, with gas dripping out of the tank. The flames briefly 'licked' at the garage's rafters before I snatched it up and headed for daylight. I let it burn in the driveway for a couple minutes, while I carefully monitored the bench until the fire was small enough to 'spritz' out with a little compressed air. The coffee can (two feet away), that was half filled with old gas, didn't ignite, or I'd be shopping for lumber and a lot of new tools.
Fortunately, I have fifty, or so, Quantum gas tanks, and more 'cowlings' than I can count. The steadily growing stack of Briggs 'auto-choke' parts, carbs and air filter housings came in handy to put the guy's mower right again.
By the way, I was just filling in material to roughly recreate a sheared off star pattern on the bottom of a blade mount. It works well, if the welder is turned up enough to penetrate the thick metal a bit.
Is your fire extinguisher working? Hmmmmmmm? Is it?
The words idiot, and moron came to mind as I lifted my welding hood and watched the fire coming off the mower, that was laying on its side, with gas dripping out of the tank. The flames briefly 'licked' at the garage's rafters before I snatched it up and headed for daylight. I let it burn in the driveway for a couple minutes, while I carefully monitored the bench until the fire was small enough to 'spritz' out with a little compressed air. The coffee can (two feet away), that was half filled with old gas, didn't ignite, or I'd be shopping for lumber and a lot of new tools.
Fortunately, I have fifty, or so, Quantum gas tanks, and more 'cowlings' than I can count. The steadily growing stack of Briggs 'auto-choke' parts, carbs and air filter housings came in handy to put the guy's mower right again.
By the way, I was just filling in material to roughly recreate a sheared off star pattern on the bottom of a blade mount. It works well, if the welder is turned up enough to penetrate the thick metal a bit.
Is your fire extinguisher working? Hmmmmmmm? Is it?