Burnin Down the House

Close call......glad everything turned out alright.
 
Peter Gozintite said:
My daughter was vacuuming her room earlier today. I walked by her room and smelled electrical burning. She said she smelled it and shut the vaccuum off. So im looking around, and the smell gets stronger. I see a cheap extension cord coming from the wall by her bed, to a phone charger, and pull the bed away from the wall.

Smoke is starting to come from the outlet, and had a flathead screw driver in my pocket, so i popped the cover and one of the screws on the neutral side is glowing hot.

I scream at her to grab the fire extinguisher, and i run to the panel to kill the breaker.

I run back up the stair and she was waiting to the fire extinguisher, but because the power was off, i grabbed a half bottle of watwr off her dresser and just spray it inside the electrical box. Tiny fire had started inside the outlet.

Scared the shit out of me. So fucking glad I happened to be home. She would have had no idea what to do.

Spent the rest of the afternoon pulling all the outlets from the wall and checking all the connections.

It seems that one of the neutral wires had a loose connection, and the vac was enough to heat that up. Didnt find any charring, or issues anywhere else on the circuit.

Close call, and crisis averted. You really never fucking know what can happen, and I am thankful for the timing. She could have easily been alone today.


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Glad a potential disaster was avoided. Still trying to figure out why you are walking around with a flat head screwdriver in your pocket though.
 
Camfantasy said:
I saw a cell phone that had a built in FLIR camera a few months ago. I'm sure not many would actually need that but it's still bad ass.
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Mine attaches to my cell phone, would hate to have it part of it all the time.
 
packerzrule said:
Glad a potential disaster was avoided. Still trying to figure out why you are walking around with a flat head screwdriver in your pocket though.
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Hard to break habits learned in his jail days.
 
fordman84 said:
Hard to break habits learned in his jail days.
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fordman84 said:
Mine attaches to my cell phone, would hate to have it part of it all the time.
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Nah, this one had it built into the camera array of the phone. You couldn't tell that it wasn't an ultrawide or macro lens or whatever unless someone told you.





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packerzrule said:
Glad a potential disaster was avoided. Still trying to figure out why you are walking around with a flat head screwdriver in your pocket though.
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I was actually changing some batteries in some fucking halloween decoration my wife had out, and the battery pack pops open with a flathead.
 
Peter Gozintite said:
I was actually changing some batteries in some fucking halloween decoration my wife had out, and the battery pack pops open with a flathead.
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is that what she told you she needed those batteries for?
 
Camfantasy said:
is that what she told you she needed those batteries for?
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If you can run a dildo on those little disc batteries, good for you. I would expect you to be an expert in field.
 
fordman84 said:
Mine attaches to my cell phone, would hate to have it part of it all the time.
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I have one like this for work. I have scanned my whole house, and used it for many things. Problem is that this would have never been a problem until the vacuum was running.
 
Peter Gozintite said:
I was actually changing some batteries in some fucking halloween decoration my wife had out, and the battery pack pops open with a flathead.
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Who the hell still makes shit with a flat screw?

Cot damn commies
 
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