On 21/12/2019 14:17, Max Demian wrote:
On 21/12/2019 12:22, Andy Burns wrote:
Terry Casey wrote:

I don't know who made this tumble dryer but it certainly left
its mark!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-50854999

I was a whirlpool and it did catch fire injuring the owner, then it
ignited aerosols stored next to it, and they blew the wall out.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/12/21/whirlpool-tumble-dryer-due-recall-caused-building-explode


I don't believe a few aerosol cans can blow a wall out.

Rather depends on how many tins. I could believe it, although the devil
would be in the detail.

On 21/12/2019 17:55, % wrote:


"Andy Burns" wrote in message
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Max Demian wrote:

I don't believe a few aerosol cans can blow a wall out.

Google disagrees

https://google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=aerosol+explosion+house+-tumble

Its far from clear how many of those were caused
by a fire causing one of the cans to explode and
THAT causing the explosion that blows the wall
out rather than the much more usual situation
like with the car when some fool sprays a lot from
the can and then that is ignited by something else.

The sequence is likely to be the can rupturing (either failure of the
plastic valve with temperature, or a seam failure from internal
pressure) leading to production of an explosive mixture.

"newshound" wrote in message
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On 19/12/2019 02:58, Rod Speed wrote:


"The Other Mike" wrote in message
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On Wed, 18 Dec 2019 11:50:15 +0000, GB
wrote:

On 17/12/2019 20:59, The Other Mike wrote:

Ditto with a mate of mine back in the late 1980's, an AEG washing
machine, costing an arm and a leg and just a few months old decided to
burst into flames just as they were going to bed. Fortunately it was
unpluggable and a few buckets of water eventually put the flames out.
Five minutes later and the whole kitchen would have been alight.


Which bits of the machine were burning so fiercely?

It was near the top, around the sequencer/controller, took out much of
the wiring, scorched the metal cover and damaged the worktop.

Apparently it was fully established flames not just smoke, no fuse
blew and I don't think he had a RCD equipped consumer unit either.

I don't think his wife ever put a washing machine on a cycle
unattended ever again.

That's mad. A decent smoke alarm there is all you need.

Not much help if you go out

Obviously if you are that mindlessly paranoid you
dont go out with the machine doing its thing.

Makes no sense to be sitting next to it all the time
its operating.

On Mon, 23 Dec 2019 05:04:56 +1100, cantankerous trolling geezer Rodent
Speed, the auto-contradicting senile sociopath, blabbered, again:

FLUSH senile asshole's latest troll****

05:04??? So, for how LONG have you been up and trolling today already? Is it
still dark outside in Australia, you abnormal senile troll?

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