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"Robert11" wrote:
How "safe" are these things, both in use and just sitting there with the
attached tank ?

I helped a friend put one together. We were having trouble getting it
started, and I was leaning in to see if I could see what was wrong, when
it started, with a nice big fireball. It horrified the spectators, as
from their point of view, my entire head was suddenly engulfed in a big
flame...but the only damage was that my eyebrows were about half as
thick as they had been before. I'm just happy that this was long before
the days of cell phone video cameras and YouTube. :-)

Anyway, consider this: how many news stories have you heard of people
being seriously injured by these things? Probably almost none.

So, that probably means they are pretty safe. (Well, I suppose it could
mean that they are do dangerous that it is no longer newsworthy when
they kill someone! :-))

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--Tim Smith