Thread: Spontaneous combustion.

Originally Posted by Schtoo

Just found this, interesting...

Oil+cotton=fire!


Just thought it might be worth thinking about.

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Mythbusters......eat your heart out.

Useless fact......did you know that Mythbusters is actually an Aussie show, with the two stars hired for the job. Read that just a few weeks ago.

Originally Posted by Termite

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Mythbusters......eat your heart out.

Useless fact......did you know that Mythbusters is actually an Aussie show, with the two stars hired for the job. Read that just a few weeks ago.

I wondered about that when I saw that it was produced by Beyond International.

Who were the mob that used to make Beyond 2000.

So there you go.

Originally Posted by Schtoo

Just found this, interesting...

Oil+cotton=fire!


Just thought it might be worth thinking about.

Hmm.. I wonder whats in China Wood Oil..have lots of soaked cottonwool and linen pads out there!! methinks I better check it out...BRB....

's Ok guys. The Shed's still there. Brown stains on the cotton are only blood from yesterdays macerated finger episode.....

Originally Posted by Shedhand

's Ok guys. The Shed's still there. Brown stains on the cotton are only blood from yesterdays macerated finger episode.....

The wine blokes have a process called "Carbonic Maceration" or something similar.
Does that mean they run each grape through a saw?

Originally Posted by Termite

The wine blokes have a process called "Carbonic Maceration" or something similar.
Does that mean they run each grape through a saw?

Dunno mate but by christ it hurts...just had the dressing changed and it looks like a dead body is laying across my knuckle... I meant Lacerated. 1 finger typo..

My immediate thought was
"Fine Cotton"

A race to make a Smoke Screen

I wonder if Ryan might have anything to add here?

i work on aircraft and we always have oily rags. They get thrown into a different wheely bin for environmental reasons but not into an airtight container.

Been done like this for 40years or more.

Just a thought
cheers

This topic got a bit of a flogging aways back:

a thread with a link for some light reading

http://www.woodworkforums.ubeaut.com...ght=combustion

Cheers

I don't worry about engine oily rags but anything with linseed or tung oil gets pegged out to dry or dropped in a bucket of water.

Purse, unless you use veggie oil on your 747's you're sitting pretty. Mineral oil has entirely different chemical properties.

As a farm boy, we were always terrified when haymaking that the barn would burn down from too green bales. Lots did too!!

Spontaneous combustion is pretty wierd and scary.

Schtoo

Thanks for posting the detail Schtoo. I have always been ultra careful with old rags and linseed etc. Seeing is believing.

Regards Mike.

Some months ago there was a fire in the laundry room of a local hotel here in Tassie. I know the manager very well. The fire started from a pile of towels that were washed and not dried and left overnight. Apparently the washing solution and temperature/humidity of the room combined was enough to start the fire. Very spooky.