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09-15-2015, 08:51 PM | #1 | |
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Spontanious Laundry?
A fire in London...
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Does anyone besides the CIA, KGB and MI6, know what kind of oil can do that? link
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09-16-2015, 08:03 AM | #2 |
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That's bullshit. I don't believe it for a second.
"Oily rags" can spontaneously combust if they are a furniture finish wiping oil that cures like boiled linseed oil or tung oil. That kind of oil gives off a small amount of heat as it cures and if you have a soaking wet rag all bunched up, the heat is concentrated in one spot. But once it's dry, the curing is done and there is no heat produced and it's safe. Walnut oil is the only cooking oil that will cure, and it's a very rare specialty item that most people aren't going to be using. Rags soaked in non-curing oils like vegetable oil or mineral oil or motor oil will not spontaneously combust, but since oil will burn fairly easily, shops have special metal trash cans for motor oil soaked rags to keep sparks from accidentally igniting them. Then you have wet hay that can spontaneously combust. That's because it begins to rot and the rotting gives off heat which gets concentrated in the middle of the hay pile. I can theorize that wet cotton towels might also spontaneously combust if they were all wadded up in a pile and began to rot and gave off heat. But that cooking oil theory advanced by the official sounds like complete BS. It would have to be rags drenched in fresh walnut oil and wadded up in a tight pile. |
09-16-2015, 08:43 AM | #3 |
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it was the swamp gasses that ignited
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09-16-2015, 11:02 AM | #4 |
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A day or two ago, the Fire Brigade, somewhere here in the UK, were advising against putting laundry away that was fresh from the tumble dryer and still very warm as it could ignite if not allowed to cool.
I'm just wondering if this is the same incident and opinion has been revised. I'll see what further info I can dig out a bit later.
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Laundry fresh from the dryer might have static electricity that could spark and ignite lint, maybe?
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09-16-2015, 11:48 AM | #6 |
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Maybe. But loose lint is pulled into the dryer filter off the clothes, so there shouldn't be loose lint in the clean clothes.
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09-16-2015, 11:52 AM | #7 | |
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I've found the article I was looking for. It refers to the same incident as in Bruce's post but is dated 11th Sept, whereas the press release from the London Fire Brigade (as linked) was dated 9th Sept.
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pffft.
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09-16-2015, 02:10 PM | #11 |
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Well hell, I'll self ignite at about 400 degrees...
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09-16-2015, 09:09 PM | #12 | |
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We had a supervisor at Boeing that was a little stupid... just a little. She got an email from a girlfriend saying if you clean your glasses with Windex type solutions you'll go blind from the ammonia. Right away she's on a mission to make everyone in the plant aware of this threat to mankind. A real pain in the ass, because of a bullshit email taken as gospel. I could see every London firehouse getting notice from headquarters with some bullshit someone, with some authority, swallowed and forwarded to all. Now the guy in the firehouse says it came from the top, somebody must have verified it, and passes it on as gospel. The problem here is compounded by using that gem in the investigation of a fire, coming up with that explanation, means they may be overlooking something important. Plus once it hit the news, half the people will be telling everyone they, this new important "fact".
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