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Model Steam AccidentsI was just wondering if any one out there has any accidents when operating their model steam engines that's caused injury or 'major' fire?
I managed to knock over my uncapped meths bottle a few days ago and quite a bit sloshed over the kitchen floor (meths seems thinner than water so seems to 'move' more).  Fortunately I had nothing lit at the time, but the smell of meths in the kitchen was pretty bad and I started to worry about the boiler's pilot light! Thankfully everything's still fine, it's taught me to replace the cap on the bottle as soon as I put it down.
Anyone else had any similar problems? Or engines exploding in their face perhaps?
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Stilldrillin
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The only "accidents " I`ve had in 50yrs of steaming have been when Mum or Wife have spotted the collateral damage. (Scorch marks, oil stains, bad smells, sore fingers)! 
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Lewis
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for me loads of burns and some bad ones
the only realy bad one was when i knocked the meths bottle over and well i think you know what happens when a meths bottle goes to lit burner 
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Wallace
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Haven't really had any, just the usual burnt finger tips.
2 Close calls those. On a MM engine I nearly removed s/v before releasing the pressure via the cylinder.
The other was a safety valve coming loose on a MM2 whilst running. I noticed it was shaking a little, pulled burner out, and stopped it in time, just.
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MooseMan
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I tried to stop the gear on my m122 while it was in full steam and was rewarded with a nasty little cut  
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yosa
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Just the usual for me, burns and scalds.
One of the dogs came sniffing around the TE1A in full steam, and touched it with her nose. Doubt she'll do that again.
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Lewis
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my dog tryed to eat my mm1 for some reason 
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yosa
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Maybe low on iron.
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Lewis
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probably doubt there is much iron in the thing
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tmuir
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When I was 14 I had an empty meths bottle that I didnt put a lid on.
It fell over towards the flame and I was rewarded with a mighty roar as a flame about 50cm meter long was spat out of the bottle towards a friend of mine.
Luckily nothing was damaged except my friends underpants.
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yosa
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flywheel61
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stilldrillin wrote
| Quote: | | The only "accidents " I`ve had in 50yrs of steaming have been when Mum or Wife have spotted the collateral damage. (Scorch marks, oil stains, bad smells, sore fingers)! |
I 've had a few burned fingers and the occassional fire from over filling the vapourizing buner. The worst collateral damage is being in the dog house for spending too much on Mamods,
Cheers 
Chris
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flywheel61
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tmuir wrote
| Quote: | | Luckily nothing was damaged except my friends underpants. |
Iknow I'm going to regret asking, but was he in them or out of them at the time.
Cheers
Chris
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tmuir
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| flywheel61 wrote: | tmuir wrote
| Quote: | | Luckily nothing was damaged except my friends underpants. |
Iknow I'm going to regret asking, but was he in them or out of them at the time.
Cheers
Chris |
He started off in them but at the speed he jumped back from the flame he was out of them by the time he landed.
The flame probably didn't come much closer than 1 meter to him but I still remember the look on his face and it taught a good lesson on how flammable meths vapors can be in a enclosed space.
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SPOKESMAN
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Love to have seen that!
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yosa
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When I was at school, before the switch to natural gas, we used to put the rubber gas pipe off the bunson burner into a beaker of soapy water. We'd the throw lit matches at the resulting soap bubbles. 
Ah the innocence of youth.
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Sandman
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| tmuir wrote: | When I was 14 I had an empty meths bottle that I didnt put a lid on.
It fell over towards the flame and I was rewarded with a mighty roar as a flame about 50cm meter long was spat out of the bottle towards a friend of mine.
Luckily nothing was damaged except my friends underpants. |
Were his underpants burned or just stained brown????
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MTA
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The only accident I've had was when the cylinder decided to part from my MM1 I've also nearly run the boiler dry on my TE1A twice...
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TE1A_man
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| tmuir wrote: | When I was 14 I had an empty meths bottle that I didnt put a lid on.
It fell over towards the flame and I was rewarded with a mighty roar as a flame about 50cm meter long was spat out of the bottle towards a friend of mine.
Luckily nothing was damaged except my friends underpants. |
I tried dumping a little bit of meths from the bottle onto the burner whistle runnig, and it was a good 2 1/2 feet away, it traveled up the stream and shot out a big flame for a second.
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oldstuff
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| tmuir wrote: | When I was 14 I had an empty meths bottle that I didnt put a lid on.
It fell over towards the flame and I was rewarded with a mighty roar as a flame about 50cm meter long was spat out of the bottle towards a friend of mine.
Luckily nothing was damaged except my friends underpants. |
Hilarious story, tmuir. With your friend being in his underwear, I assume it was
a sleep-over.
I remember the rubber band and paper-wad war my brothers and I had once
when my cousin was spending the night. We were about the same age.
We turned off the lights so it would be hard to see and stripped to our
underwear so the paper-wads would hurt more. During the battle, my brother
called time-out to go upstairs and take a leak. But, he forgot to turn the light
off when he was done, so he came down the stairs a fully illuminated
target and was promptly annihilated by us. My cousin still laughs about
"the night we assinated Jimmy".
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James
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MTA
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| oldstuff wrote: | | tmuir wrote: | When I was 14 I had an empty meths bottle that I didnt put a lid on.
It fell over towards the flame and I was rewarded with a mighty roar as a flame about 50cm meter long was spat out of the bottle towards a friend of mine.
Luckily nothing was damaged except my friends underpants. |
Hilarious story, tmuir. With your friend being in his underwear, I assume it was
a sleep-over.
I remember the rubber band and paper-wad war my brothers and I had once
when my cousin was spending the night. We were about the same age.
We turned off the lights so it would be hard to see and stripped to our
underwear so the paper-wads would hurt more. During the battle, my brother
called time-out to go upstairs and take a leak. But, he forgot to turn the light
off when he was done, so he came down the stairs a fully illuminated
target and was promptly annihilated by us. My cousin still laughs about
"the night we assinated Jimmy". |
My mates and I did something similar last year, we had a huge sleepover involving 7 people, I locked three of them in my mate's extension, switched off the lgihts, and gave them a pair of boxing gloves each. After one split lip and one bruised shoulder, we let them out
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James
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My mate fired a bit of paper into hardo David's eye and made it bleed I got loads of stories about firing paper
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bessytractor
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my minor twos steam line parted company with the boiler once, and it hasn't been fixed yet. It broke about 10 years ago!
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tmuir
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| oldstuff wrote: | | tmuir wrote: | When I was 14 I had an empty meths bottle that I didnt put a lid on.
It fell over towards the flame and I was rewarded with a mighty roar as a flame about 50cm meter long was spat out of the bottle towards a friend of mine.
Luckily nothing was damaged except my friends underpants. |
Hilarious story, tmuir. With your friend being in his underwear, I assume it was
a sleep-over. |
I think everyone has taken my underpants joke the wrong way.
He wasnt in his underwear and nothing actually happened to them he just got a rather big fright as the meths flame shot out of the bottle at him. It didnt touch him or burn him in any way, just gave him a major fright.
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oldstuff
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| tmuir wrote: | | oldstuff wrote: | | tmuir wrote: | When I was 14 I had an empty meths bottle that I didnt put a lid on.
It fell over towards the flame and I was rewarded with a mighty roar as a flame about 50cm meter long was spat out of the bottle towards a friend of mine.
Luckily nothing was damaged except my friends underpants. |
Hilarious story, tmuir. With your friend being in his underwear, I assume it was
a sleep-over. |
I think everyone has taken my underpants joke the wrong way.
He wasnt in his underwear and nothing actually happened to them he just got a rather big fright as the meths flame shot out of the bottle at him. It didnt touch him or burn him in any way, just gave him a major fright. |
The sleepover idea helped me segue into a funny story of my own. Sorry, mate.
Hope you can see that no harm was intended. Your original story was quite funny
and gave everyone a laugh.
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