On Wed, 13 Apr 2005 19:08:18 GMT, "Don Sforza"
wrote:

Torrington, Connecticut: An accidental fire in the wood shop of the Oliver
Wolcott Technical School resulted in a hole in the roof Monday. It was
caused by the spontaneous combustion of a pile of rags used to stain
toolboxes that students had built, the Fire Marshall said. The rags were
laying on a wooden table that burned before the fire went to the roof...
... Students who left the pile of rags likely will not be disciplined...

Wouldn't have happened if the rags had been grounded...

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Torrington, Connecticut: An accidental fire in the wood shop of the Oliver
Wolcott Technical School resulted in a hole in the roof Monday. It was
caused by the spontaneous combustion of a pile of rags used to stain
toolboxes that students had built, the Fire Marshall said. The rags were
laying on a wooden table that burned before the fire went to the roof...
.... Students who left the pile of rags likely will not be disciplined...

Geesh! Pretty scary...

On Wed, 13 Apr 2005 19:08:18 GMT, Don Sforza wrote:
Torrington, Connecticut: An accidental fire in the wood shop of the Oliver
Wolcott Technical School resulted in a hole in the roof Monday. It was
caused by the spontaneous combustion of a pile of rags used to stain
toolboxes that students had built, the Fire Marshall said. The rags were
laying on a wooden table that burned before the fire went to the roof...
... Students who left the pile of rags likely will not be disciplined...

Sounds like it's the teacher who should be, though. It's not like this
is a new phenomenon.

In article ,
LRod wrote:

On Wed, 13 Apr 2005 19:08:18 GMT, "Don Sforza"
wrote:

Torrington, Connecticut: An accidental fire in the wood shop of the Oliver
Wolcott Technical School resulted in a hole in the roof Monday. It was
caused by the spontaneous combustion of a pile of rags used to stain
toolboxes that students had built, the Fire Marshall said. The rags were
laying on a wooden table that burned before the fire went to the roof...
... Students who left the pile of rags likely will not be disciplined...

Wouldn't have happened if the rags had been grounded...

Never happens to acetone soaked rags either. You don't need to ground
them.

LRod wrote:
On Wed, 13 Apr 2005 19:08:18 GMT, "Don Sforza"
wrote:


Torrington, Connecticut: An accidental fire in the wood shop of the Oliver
Wolcott Technical School resulted in a hole in the roof Monday. It was
caused by the spontaneous combustion of a pile of rags used to stain
toolboxes that students had built, the Fire Marshall said. The rags were
laying on a wooden table that burned before the fire went to the roof...
... Students who left the pile of rags likely will not be disciplined...


Wouldn't have happened if the rags had been grounded...

...or soaked in acetone.

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Will
Occasional Techno-geek

Robatoy wrote:
In article ,
LRod wrote:


On Wed, 13 Apr 2005 19:08:18 GMT, "Don Sforza"
wrote:


Torrington, Connecticut: An accidental fire in the wood shop of the Oliver
Wolcott Technical School resulted in a hole in the roof Monday. It was
caused by the spontaneous combustion of a pile of rags used to stain
toolboxes that students had built, the Fire Marshall said. The rags were
laying on a wooden table that burned before the fire went to the roof...
... Students who left the pile of rags likely will not be disciplined...

Wouldn't have happened if the rags had been grounded...


Never happens to acetone soaked rags either. You don't need to ground
them.


....and small minds seldom differ. g

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Will
Occasional Techno-geek

LRod wrote in
:

On Wed, 13 Apr 2005 19:08:18 GMT, "Don Sforza"
wrote:

Torrington, Connecticut: An accidental fire in the wood shop of the
Oliver Wolcott Technical School resulted in a hole in the roof Monday.
It was caused by the spontaneous combustion of a pile of rags used to
stain toolboxes that students had built, the Fire Marshall said. The
rags were laying on a wooden table that burned before the fire went to
the roof... ... Students who left the pile of rags likely will not be
disciplined...

Wouldn't have happened if the rags had been grounded...


Even if they had been stretched over a PVC dust extraction pipe? ;-)