On Feb 2, 7:42 am, "JimH" wrote:
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1 - Computer caught fire.

2 - Office smoke damage.

That sucks! Some here will blame it on bad karma. ;-)

Was it the power supply catching fire?

I guess - that's what the Fire Marshall said. Kind of a thermal
runaway.

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On Feb 2, 7:42 am, "JimH" wrote:
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ups.com...

1 - Computer caught fire.

2 - Office smoke damage.

That sucks! Some here will blame it on bad karma. ;-)

Was it the power supply catching fire?

I guess - that's what the Fire Marshall said. Kind of a thermal
runaway.


How old was it?

On Feb 2, 7:52 am, "JimH" wrote:
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On Feb 2, 7:42 am, "JimH" wrote:
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1 - Computer caught fire.

2 - Office smoke damage.

That sucks! Some here will blame it on bad karma. ;-)

Was it the power supply catching fire?

I guess - that's what the Fire Marshall said. Kind of a thermal
runaway.

How old was it?

Three years.

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On Feb 2, 7:52 am, "JimH" wrote:
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On Feb 2, 7:42 am, "JimH" wrote:
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roups.com...

1 - Computer caught fire.

2 - Office smoke damage.

That sucks! Some here will blame it on bad karma. ;-)

Was it the power supply catching fire?

I guess - that's what the Fire Marshall said. Kind of a thermal
runaway.

How old was it?

Three years.


Are you going to notify the manufacturer of the computer and/or power
supply? It is useful information for them and may lead to a recall.

I would also pursue a claim against them to recover damages from the fire.
This failure and resulting fire is certainly not to be expected as the power
supply was certainly well within it's expected useful life.

On Feb 2, 5:17�am, wrote:
1 - Computer caught fire.

2 - Office smoke damage.

3 - Repair office.

4 - Purchase new computer - this time I'm building my own.

5 - Purchase portable computer to use until new computer
arrives.

6 - Use Google groups temporarily - which, by the way,
sucks.

So how's everything been? *:)

Miss me?

You missed the new guy or gal in the group. He or she popped in when
you popped out. He or she is a real trip; launches a personal attack
troll of a thread and then presumes to bitch about the quality of
content in rec.boats! If you hadn't already gone down prior to this
party's appearance, perhaps your CPU received his or her message,
suffered acid damage to critical insulation, and went up in smoke. :-)

Good luck with the rebuild/new build and welcome back.

On Feb 2, 10:47 am, "Chuck Gould" wrote:
On Feb 2, 5:17?am, wrote:





1 - Computer caught fire.

2 - Office smoke damage.

3 - Repair office.

4 - Purchase new computer - this time I'm building my own.

5 - Purchase portable computer to use until new computer
arrives.

6 - Use Google groups temporarily - which, by the way,
sucks.

So how's everything been? ?:)

Miss me?

You missed the new guy or gal in the group. He or she popped in when
you popped out. He or she is a real trip; launches a personal attack
troll of a thread and then presumes to bitch about the quality of
content in rec.boats! If you hadn't already gone down prior to this
party's appearance, perhaps your CPU received his or her message,
suffered acid damage to critical insulation, and went up in smoke. :-)

Good luck with the rebuild/new build and welcome back.

Yeah - I saw that.

While not a confession, I am sort-of to blame for that.

Combat Bunny is an old friend/dueler of mine - believe it or not, he's
a
Renaissance man - a real life Jubal Harshaw only with more degrees.
Very
prolilfic author and in real life, very kind and generous with his
time and
knowledge. Does a lot of charity work and pro-bono legal filings for
folks
who can't afford attorneys. He and I first tangled on rec.art.sf
years ago
and eventually it came to a detente' and grew into a friendship. We
go
fishing or have lunch every he rolls into town to visit his elderly
parents.

As it happened we were discussing the state of Usenet in general. I
was
lamenting the lack of quality flames and we started remembering the
old
days and some of the great flame wars and warriors. I mentioned this
newsgroup as being somewhat provincial in that respect (which I have
mentioned in the past) and wouldn't it be fun to set up a false war in
which we could pick on each other.

So not knowing that I was offline, he did it on his own waiting for me
to jump in and really get cranking - it was supposed to be a fun thing
for both of us. Unfortunately, it back fired.

He will appear to apologise under his actual name as soon as he
returns home tomorrow.

If you wish to place blame, blame me.

On 2 Feb 2007 09:21:55 -0800, wrote:

If you wish to place blame, blame me.

Blame is lame, but if you insist...

Glad to hear the damage wasn't more serious. Was there enough heat
outside the actual chasis of the PC to have caused ignition? If so,
scary stuff.

I had an incident here two weeks ago with a 220 volt outlet for the
hot water heater. We woke up one morning without hot water, and when
I investigated, discovered there was no voltage at the heater.
Tracing backward to the plug and outlet outlet, one of the prongs had
formed enough corrosion to create a high resistance conection, which
in turn developed enough heat to burn away half of the outlet shell,
and melt off 3 inches of insulation on the distribution wire. No
external signs of heat or damage at all.

On Feb 2, 11:54 am, Wayne.B wrote:
On 2 Feb 2007 09:21:55 -0800, wrote:

If you wish to place blame, blame me.

Blame is lame, but if you insist...

Glad to hear the damage wasn't more serious. Was there enough heat
outside the actual chasis of the PC to have caused ignition? If so,
scary stuff.

I had an incident here two weeks ago with a 220 volt outlet for the
hot water heater. We woke up one morning without hot water, and when
I investigated, discovered there was no voltage at the heater.
Tracing backward to the plug and outlet outlet, one of the prongs had
formed enough corrosion to create a high resistance conection, which
in turn developed enough heat to burn away half of the outlet shell,
and melt off 3 inches of insulation on the distribution wire. No
external signs of heat or damage at all.

I hear you. When we were renovating the old farm house from knob
and tube wiring, we had an interesting situation after having new
panels
installed after about a year. Nobody thought of it at the time, but
the
panels were installed right over the water tank from the well. It was
galvanised and the humidity was rather high because of the field stone
basement. After about a year, had a similar thing happen to the 220
line to the stove. Moved the panels after that happened.

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Since we are commenting on "Smoke, and Mirrors"... I was napping in
the aft cabin, and got brought snapped back to reality by a loud
"BZZZZT", and fireworks outside the hatch. I hopped out, and pulled
the wire out, and threw it to the ground. End result was removal of
about 3ft of dock cord, and re-installing the 30 A female connector.
The connectors were shiney, and O.K. The only thing I can think of, is
where the wire was clamped, the conductor insulation flowed over the
years until white got to black. (Green wire was undamaged) Glad I was
in the boat to witness that, as it could have developed into a 911
situation.

Den 48YF

ROFLOL! The way this guy just showed up and started popping off to anyone he
could, seemed strange. Now it makes sense, and is actually kind of funny.

--Mike

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On Feb 2, 10:47 am, "Chuck Gould" wrote:
On Feb 2, 5:17?am, wrote:





1 - Computer caught fire.

2 - Office smoke damage.

3 - Repair office.

4 - Purchase new computer - this time I'm building my own.

5 - Purchase portable computer to use until new computer
arrives.

6 - Use Google groups temporarily - which, by the way,
sucks.

So how's everything been? ?:)

Miss me?

You missed the new guy or gal in the group. He or she popped in when
you popped out. He or she is a real trip; launches a personal attack
troll of a thread and then presumes to bitch about the quality of
content in rec.boats! If you hadn't already gone down prior to this
party's appearance, perhaps your CPU received his or her message,
suffered acid damage to critical insulation, and went up in smoke. :-)

Good luck with the rebuild/new build and welcome back.

Yeah - I saw that.

While not a confession, I am sort-of to blame for that.

Combat Bunny is an old friend/dueler of mine - believe it or not, he's
a
Renaissance man - a real life Jubal Harshaw only with more degrees.
Very
prolilfic author and in real life, very kind and generous with his
time and
knowledge. Does a lot of charity work and pro-bono legal filings for
folks
who can't afford attorneys. He and I first tangled on rec.art.sf
years ago
and eventually it came to a detente' and grew into a friendship. We
go
fishing or have lunch every he rolls into town to visit his elderly
parents.

As it happened we were discussing the state of Usenet in general. I
was
lamenting the lack of quality flames and we started remembering the
old
days and some of the great flame wars and warriors. I mentioned this
newsgroup as being somewhat provincial in that respect (which I have
mentioned in the past) and wouldn't it be fun to set up a false war in
which we could pick on each other.

So not knowing that I was offline, he did it on his own waiting for me
to jump in and really get cranking - it was supposed to be a fun thing
for both of us. Unfortunately, it back fired.

He will appear to apologise under his actual name as soon as he
returns home tomorrow.

If you wish to place blame, blame me.