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PIC ADDED- If you have a magnifying make-up mirror in your house...they are dangerous!
bushmaster8
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I've never heard any consumer warnings about these things..
My wife keeps one on her desk in front of a window, uses it for applying makeup, plucking eyebrows, etc.
Yesterday, we both walk into our bedroom together and she says, "Greg, are you burning incense?"
The room was slightly smoky and smelled pleasantly of pine.
I said, "No."
She replied, "Then what is burning?"
I did a quick scan of the room and saw a bright light and a red glow on her desk. My mind fooled me for a second, I thought I was seeing a
brass incense burner and a glowing incense stick.
I quickly realized the very bright "brass" looking object was pure concentrated sunlight. The sun had gotten to just the right spot in the sky to focus a beam of radiation on the window frame (much like you can focus a beam of light with a magnifying glass) and it was glowing cherry red and smoking away!
I threw some water on it and now have a big black charred spot on my window frame!
Would it eventually have flamed and started the curtains afire? I think so.
The smoke detector would have gone off shortly, i am sure. But what if no one was home??
The death ray vaporized the wood to about 3/16" deep...not sure how deep the charring goes in!
My wife keeps one on her desk in front of a window, uses it for applying makeup, plucking eyebrows, etc.
Yesterday, we both walk into our bedroom together and she says, "Greg, are you burning incense?"
The room was slightly smoky and smelled pleasantly of pine.
I said, "No."
She replied, "Then what is burning?"
I did a quick scan of the room and saw a bright light and a red glow on her desk. My mind fooled me for a second, I thought I was seeing a
brass incense burner and a glowing incense stick.
I quickly realized the very bright "brass" looking object was pure concentrated sunlight. The sun had gotten to just the right spot in the sky to focus a beam of radiation on the window frame (much like you can focus a beam of light with a magnifying glass) and it was glowing cherry red and smoking away!
I threw some water on it and now have a big black charred spot on my window frame!
Would it eventually have flamed and started the curtains afire? I think so.
The smoke detector would have gone off shortly, i am sure. But what if no one was home??
The death ray vaporized the wood to about 3/16" deep...not sure how deep the charring goes in!
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and they're cold.
I don't want nobody to shoot me in the foxhole."
Mary
Best Franklin Website
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The name is LEE!
Raider of the Lost Arc
where the light only shines in the correct orientation once per year
at the right time
and only with the right magnifying crystal perfectly alligned.
Imagine someone's home burning down over a quirk such as this!
<< <i>this reminds me of
Raider of the Lost Arc
where the light only shines in the correct orientation once per year
at the right time
and only with the right magnifying crystal perfectly alligned. >>
Once per day, not once per year. get it right. LOL
San Diego, CA
These often throw a spark when they burn out.
You used to be safe buying anything that was underwritten by UL but this endorsement appears to be almost meaningless any more.
<< <i>
<< <i>this reminds me of
Raider of the Lost Arc
where the light only shines in the correct orientation once per year
at the right time
and only with the right magnifying crystal perfectly alligned. >>
Once per day, not once per year. get it right. LOL >>
The sun moves around in the sky. In the movie, it was once/year.
I've never owned one of these but I've seen them in many feminine bathrooms I've visited over the years. Seems like the key is to keep them away from the sun. The bathroom environments that I've observed them in is probably safe. --Jerry
I hope that your medical knowledge is post-Copernican.
<< <i>-- the movement of the sun --
I hope that your medical knowledge is post-Copernican.
It could be the orbital movement of the sun around the "Milky Way".
San Diego, CA
<< <i>-- the movement of the sun --
I hope that your medical knowledge is post-Copernican.
You haven't mastered the concept of frame of reference, eh? In the bedroom frame of reference, the sun moves around in the the spherical projection we think of as the sky. Astronomers want to know where an object is in the sky, now where the earth is relative to the object. --Jerry
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working on proof shield nickels # 8 with a bullet!!!!
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No!! Really!! see, the mirror focused a death ray laser beam that set the carpet on fire!!!
I had a SERIOUS fire at my house in Detroit about eight years ago, the insurance investigator and the Arson Squad couldn't come up with a cause.
Care to guess where they set their sights on as the "Cause" of the fire?
Be suspected of arson is not a cool thing,
ask me how I know
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Any thread can turn into any direction at any time here. This place is great. >>
That's why I like it here.
and they're cold.
I don't want nobody to shoot me in the foxhole."
Mary
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Franklin Half Dollars Prove to be “Hot Money”
“Officials of the Franklin Society for Home Building and savings discovered yesterday that the new Benjamin Franklin half dollars, issued Friday by the united States Mint, can become “too hot to handle.” A combination of the sun’s rays and a strong magnifying lens set fire early yesterday to a display board in front of the society’s offices at 217 Broadway, on which several of the new coins were mounted.
The lens had been placed in front of the display to magnify the coins for the benefit of passers-by. But the lens soon caught and concentrated the sun’s rays on the display and before long the window front of the society’s offices was aflame. The Fire Department extinguished the blaze before any serious damage was done.”