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Re: [Shop-talk] Making a trap door safe

To: Jim Stone <jandkstone99@msn.com>
Subject: Re: [Shop-talk] Making a trap door safe
From: Randall <tr3driver@ca.rr.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 16:31:08 -0500
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---- John Innis <jdinnis@gmail.com> wrote: 
> I'm envisioning a switch (like for a security system) that will tell
> you when the door is open, hooked up to a big red flashing light.

Me too, except a big light shining up out of the hole should be sufficient.  I 
wouldn't want to have to have a flashing red light all the time that anyone is 
in the basement doing laundry.

I didn't understand from your description if the hole is accessible from the 
side opposite the trap door or not.  If so, another possibility might be a 
cable or similar, fastened to the door so it forms a barrier in the bedroom 
directions when the door is open.

Yet another approach might be to ring the opening with light beams, and sound 
an alarm when anyone walks too close to the open hole.  I can see problems with 
that, but it should help.  Maybe a recording that plays "Danger, Danger, Will 
Robinson" <g>

I suppose there is no chance that the laundry could be moved somewhere else?  
They make washer/dryer combos now that will fit in a closet and even leave room 
for clothes or shelves above it.
Eg,
http://goo.gl/XkD28

Randall
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