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.