For anyone who hasn't seen it before, the exploding substation transformer video is quite sobering: http://205.243.100.155/frames/longarc.htm#Blowup
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Pro disasters
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of Part P.
(Is it coincidence that all the pro disasters so far in this tread are all USA'ian?)
David
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They're not.
Mary
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Fork me, never seen anything on that scale before!
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AIUI there is no requirement for the pipes to be Canary Yellow in a _domestic_ installation. ;-)
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London a few weeks ago and several houses caught fire.
I presume the really big fire ball is when all the insulating oil gets to flash point.
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How about Portsmouth's new millenium "Spinnaker Tower"? Cock Up, start to finish, oh wait a minuet, its not finished yet, and the contractors want ANOTHER £few million to get it ready for this years tourists!
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you can see the oil spray out in a cloud a couple of secs before it (the oil cloud) ignites. Fun. From a distance.
NT
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They've just converted a building across the street into flats, putting a row of gas meters along the bottom, and then running yards and yards of BSP across the wall from each to the appropriate flat (it turns into copper just before vanishing into the wall).
As this is on the wall that faces a rather dark alleyway, and used to frequently get graffitied, I'm not convinced it's quite the right way to do it. They look really useful to climb up if you wanted to get into an upstairs window, for a start.
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Quite ...
Since so many people said that it was a common practice I've been looking. Hard. I haven't seen anything like it hereabouts or on any of my journeys.
Perhaps it's a southern thing ...
Mary
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If I had a few more roun tuits I'd get the camera out. At least a dozen or so buildings with gas installation (as well as service) pipes on the outside with in 50meters of here.
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You're not in Leeds. I can't believe that Leeds is unique.
Mary
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Not I, I should point out. I said it was within regs, not common (and perhaps preferable in some circumstances). I have seen such installations occasionally but not "commonly". I have seen one along a wall at the back of a parking space at about bumper height (no, I wouldn't have been happy about it if it was mine but it was probably within regs).