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How does a titanium fire respond to water? I know, from personal experience, that the situation described above would border on the impossible to extinguish should the material be magnesium.
If you haven't witnessed water being introduced to a magnesium fire, you haven't lived!
H
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Harold_V wrote: ↑Fri Dec 13, 2019 4:55 pm
How does a titanium fire respond to water? I know, from personal experience, that the situation described above would border on the impossible to extinguish should the material be magnesium.
If you haven't witnessed water being introduced to a magnesium fire, you haven't lived!
H
Probably 25 years ago our FD crews responded to two burn victims. The father son team who installed chain link fences were putting a fence around a business and using a circular abrasive saw. Some of the sparks went into the dumpster of an adjacent machine shop. The dumpster was filled with magnesium turnings and sparks started the dumpster on fire. The two grabbed a garden hose to extinguish the fire. Both father and son perished that day.
Gregg
Just let go of it, it will eventually unplug itself.
I can imagine that one of the big problems with any "Makerspace" is that everyone thinks they are an "expert" in any field that comes up. As my one and only (very recent) experience at one of them shows .
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There are reportedly some that will not permit you to use any machine in their shop until you sit through their training course on that specific machine.
As my one and only (very recent) experience at one of them shows . 
