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โAug-06-2010 05:11 PM
โAug-06-2010 02:57 PM
popeye59 wrote:Bob Vaughn wrote:
When I was young I took a battery powered record player and stuck the plug into the bark of a tree and was playing my music and a little kid came by and saw and heard the music and ran and got his dad telling him I had plugged in my record player and got electricity out of the tree....
In the Navy we went the other way. We had wall mounted battery operated clock and left the cord hanging in plain view. People would look at it and get confused why it was still keeping time being unplugged
โAug-06-2010 05:02 AM
Bob Vaughn wrote:
When I was young I took a battery powered record player and stuck the plug into the bark of a tree and was playing my music and a little kid came by and saw and heard the music and ran and got his dad telling him I had plugged in my record player and got electricity out of the tree....
โAug-05-2010 08:13 PM
Bob Vaughn wrote:
When I was young I took a battery powered record player and stuck the plug into the bark of a tree and was playing my music and a little kid came by and saw and heard the music and ran and got his dad telling him I had plugged in my record player and got electricity out of the tree....
โAug-05-2010 05:21 PM
โAug-05-2010 05:04 PM
Boozecamp wrote:
To confuse other campers and create conversation, I mounted a water pipe and spigot to a 3' tall 4x4 post on a plate so it will stand up. When camping in CG's that don't have water, I stand the water post up near the road and connect up water hose to it and my TT. Drives people nuts when i've got water and no one else does. They get a big chuckle out of it when I lift the post off the ground. Oh...the games we play!:)
โAug-05-2010 03:01 PM
svcheerio wrote:
Boozecamp: I like your style!!:B
โAug-05-2010 02:49 PM
โAug-05-2010 02:29 PM
PUCampin wrote:
Our smoke alarm will go off pretty much any time we turn on the stove. Boiling water sets it off. Since it is easy to access, I drop the cover which is on a hinge, and move the battery out of the contacts. The cover reminds me to put it back when done.
As a side note, the proper detector to put in a home kitchen is a "Heat Rise" Detector, not a smoke detector. A heat rise detector senses a fire by measureing how fast the temperature is rising at it's location, not by measuring the particulate concentration like a smoke detector. Cooking will not cause a rapid temperature rise like a fire does, so you will not get nuisance alarms. A smoke detector will ALWAYS give nuisance detections in a kitchen.
โAug-05-2010 02:25 PM
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โAug-05-2010 06:23 AM
โJul-30-2010 10:51 AM
popeye59 wrote:PUCampin wrote:
Our smoke alarm will go off pretty much any time we turn on the stove. Boiling water sets it off. Since it is easy to access, I drop the cover which is on a hinge, and move the battery out of the contacts. The cover reminds me to put it back when done.
As a side note, the proper detector to put in a home kitchen is a "Heat Rise" Detector, not a smoke detector. A heat rise detector senses a fire by measureing how fast the temperature is rising at it's location, not by measuring the particulate concentration like a smoke detector. Cooking will not cause a rapid temperature rise like a fire does, so you will not get nuisance alarms. A smoke detector will ALWAYS give nuisance detections in a kitchen.
I feel I must disagree here. First off both my wife and I can both cook many complete meals without having the smoke detector go off once. One time (and that is more than enough, trust me) our smoke detector went off at 3:00am. We were all asleep and woke to find a smoldering trash can. If we would have had to wait until the heat increased fast enough for the rate of rise detector to sense it, my whole family would be dead.
True, a smoke detector will give nuisance alarms where a rate of rise detector won't, but when my butt is on the line, I want the one that goes off first.
โJul-30-2010 10:36 AM
PUCampin wrote:
Our smoke alarm will go off pretty much any time we turn on the stove. Boiling water sets it off. Since it is easy to access, I drop the cover which is on a hinge, and move the battery out of the contacts. The cover reminds me to put it back when done.
As a side note, the proper detector to put in a home kitchen is a "Heat Rise" Detector, not a smoke detector. A heat rise detector senses a fire by measureing how fast the temperature is rising at it's location, not by measuring the particulate concentration like a smoke detector. Cooking will not cause a rapid temperature rise like a fire does, so you will not get nuisance alarms. A smoke detector will ALWAYS give nuisance detections in a kitchen.
โJul-30-2010 09:21 AM