Sorry I bin away but i had a disaster!!!

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Thu Aug 02, 2007 9:22 pm

Jeeze its bin awile but i had a catastrphic malfunction of a heater and my house burnt down!! and my cannon witch was under my bed got toasted nicley toasted!! ill post some pics of it when i get to a computer that will load my phone photos!!
I hope everyone has been ok and all your fingers are accounted for!!


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Thu Aug 02, 2007 9:27 pm

Damn sorry to hear about that man. Best of luck to you in getting everything back to normal. Better the gun than you man.
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Thu Aug 02, 2007 11:09 pm

Bloody hell. Man that must suck, your house insured or something? Did it happen during the day or night when you were sleeping? Hope everything is going to be ok for you and your family.
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Thu Aug 02, 2007 11:26 pm

Any idea what the cause of the fire was? I hope your ok and you get it together well.
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Thu Aug 02, 2007 11:26 pm

^^^Ditto to all of that, I bid you the best of luck in returning everything back to normal. Are you and your family all O.K.?
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Thu Aug 02, 2007 11:37 pm

My condolences go to your spudgun, and my sympathy to you and your family. I hope everything gets sorted and there arent any unwanted hitches in the process.
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Fri Aug 03, 2007 12:56 am

I feel sorry for you and your family. I hope everything works out and gets back to normal.

You have my condolences and are in my prayers.
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Fri Aug 03, 2007 8:14 am

Your house burnt down, and your concerned about maybe a $50 cannon, when there is 50x that in your walls?

Other then that, as with anyone, I hope your safe. Doesn't sound as if the whole incident shook you around to much.
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Sun Aug 12, 2007 8:30 pm

Dude Im so sorry, I wish my dad came to your house faster when the fire started! :x
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Sun Aug 12, 2007 8:56 pm

Wow, that sure sucks. Was it a space heater by any chance? I know they are notorious for fires. FYI, if anyone has an x-box (the old one) I know those also have a history. Anyway, good luck. Use that insurance to the fullest extent. :roll:
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Sun Aug 12, 2007 10:31 pm

Hope ya'll are alright. Heaters running when people are asleep has always scared me big time. Still, they shouldn't malfunction like that, no matter how paranoid I am about them. My guess it was something like a short, if it was running and there was no cloth or other combustibles too close to it.

Anyways, just feel lucky it was the cannon and not you or anybody else in your family. PVC is cheap compared to people, (and houses, but insurance should pay that. :wink: ).
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Fri Aug 24, 2007 4:29 am

nah it was a bar heater! but yeah!
i was pritty upset with it to start with but hey it was insured and all is well now!
and no my cannon wasent covered by my contence insurance!

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Fri Aug 24, 2007 4:33 am

As long as you and your family are good man. We hope the insurance covers everything (even to it sadly didnt cover your gun :cry: ). Hope yas are ok man.
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Fri Aug 24, 2007 4:35 am

bummer dude, hope you manage to recover soon enough and get those cannons off the workbench again

Look at the bright side, now you have a good excuse to stockpile CO2, fire extinguishers etc. all in the name of health and safety but that can be siphoned off to provide for your projects ;)
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