At boy scout camp we learned that steel wool and a 9v battery is one of the ways to start a fire. Dryer lint is the other stuff that you can start with a flint- steel hotspark kit. ron On 29 Aug 2007 at 8:48, Rob & Helen Goodale wrote: > > Steel wool is bare ferrous metal and prone to instant rusting under the right conditions. I've > opened new packages of steel wool in the past and found a slight hint of an oil residue on it. I'm > guessing that this is to prevent rusting by the time the consumer buys it in the event it remains on > a store shelf for a long time somewhere humid. I would speculate the wool you had may have > had an excess amount of protective oil. The sparks got it going. Weird! > > Rob Goodale, RPT > Las Vegas, NV > > > Today I had a fresh roll of 0000 steel wool catch fire from grinder sparks. Just 5 seconds of > low level flame (like alcohol flames) and another 5 second of glowing strands until it went > out. Of course it went out -- steel is not a combustible material!! > > I was using an angle grinder (hand held, and this wasn't piano work). The sparks were > shooting about 3 feet across my bench where the roll of steel wool was. If it had been > resting on something like paper towel, that might have been more serious. > > Watch your sparks! > > John Baird ---------------------- Ron Berry Piano Service Indianapolis, IN 46220 317-255-8213 ron at berrypiano.com http://www.berrypiano.com
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