Wanna know how to burn down your shop?

McCracken

McCracken

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So you guys remember that I have a shop now that needed power? Yeah, so it's got power now. So my FIL gave me a rod heater for my stick welder. So after getting everything wired up and set where I want it I plugged the rod heater in but didn't turn it on....or so I thought. I walk in this morning and find smoke everywhere. I'm thinking, "great, you really just wired up your shop and now you've caused an electrical fire". After further investigation it was the rod heater. The thermostat control that's says "OFF" must mean "OFF...if I feel like it". I had a full pack of rods in there in one of those red plastic tubes. It gone. So here's the aftermath.

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Yuk, man the ones at the college can be set really hot. I can see that happening. Good thing it was insulated and fairly isolated.
 
WARRIORWELDING said:
We never put plastic in them, only bare rod.
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I just threw those in there till later. I wouldn't have turned it on with the tubes still in. I'm straightening out the shop now that I have power and getting organized. It was a temporary thing.
 
We've got a similar rod heater at the shop.
The thermostat on it is maybe the same, maybe broke, but whatever.

Ours has an on/off switch and then the thermostat set. With the switch to on and the thermostate to "off" it means...wide ass open ..thermostat control is "off" not oven.

YMMV
 
Ron said:
We've got a similar rod heater at the shop.
The thermostat on it is maybe the same, maybe broke, but whatever.

Ours has an on/off switch and then the thermostat set. With the switch to on and the thermostate to "off" it means...wide ass open ..thermostat control is "off" not oven.

YMMV
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I had an old electric shop heater labeled like that one. Had an on/off switch and a dial. "off" on the dial was at the top of the temp. It took me one time to realize "off" meant "no limit".
 
Blaze said:
Hmmm, we may have found a problem that can't actually be solved with a well placed match. Interesting.
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Nope, he just didn't place it well enough.
 
A couple of years ago I had a rechargeable head light I had plugged in and place in the window seal.A couple of hours later the batteries blew up and caught the curtains on fire.
 
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