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Re: Shop floors, was Re: Shop heaters

To: Steven Trovato <trovato@media.philips.com>
Subject: Re: Shop floors, was Re: Shop heaters
From: "W. R. Gibbons" <gibbons@northpole.med.uvm.edu>
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 1996 22:25:21 -0500 (EST)
On Fri, 26 Jan 1996, Steven Trovato wrote:

> >In the past, I have used an even simpler solution; when I replace the
> >carpet in the house I cut the old carpet into easily handled strips.  I
> >roll as much as I need out out in my working area in the garage. 
> >Eventually, it gets monumentally grungy, but in the meantime I am
> >comfortable.
> 
> Be careful with this...  Oil soaked...  or even clean carpet can be a fire 
>hazard.  This is 
> especially true when parking a catalytic converter equipped car over it.  
>I've heard 
> stories of these setting carpets on fire.  Burns up your car, shop, house...  
>could ruin 
> your whole day.

I should have said that I do this under and around long term projects; 
not under a car that's being driven.  I'm not daft, however I may seem.

Ray

   Ray Gibbons  Dept. of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics
                Univ. of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, VT
                gibbons@northpole.med.uvm.edu  (802) 656-8910


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