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I was touching up some sides on my electric pipe. I forgot to turn it off. It was left on its highest setting for several days.

This is what happened. I feel very fortunate that my shop is not a pile of charred rubble.

Please use a timer with these - I know I will from now on.

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John Ressler

Like you , Being a manufacture of bender I always stressed the timer and didn't have one on my own till I did the same things. SAFETY , we all have to pay attention . I am happy for you that you just learned a valuable lesson and not have to fill out insurance claims. Thanks for sharing. If we can't be smart at least lets share .

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John Hall
blues creek guitars
Authorized CF Martin Repair
Co President of ASIA
You Don't know what you don't know until you know it

Another fail safe I use is powering all heating tools into a power strip that shares power with a lamp in the shop. It's a good reminder when exiting. Light off - Heat off.

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Tom Krebs

Woah, that's scary!
Good thing I called yesterday and got you thinking guitars again. Glad you didn't come home to a pile of char. Been there, done that, don't reccomend it!

Steve

YIKES!!!!!

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Bill Hodge


One does not simply, own enough guitars!

Whoa... close one, John! Second chances are gold.

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"Building guitars looks hard, but it's actually much harder than it looks." Tom Buck

Great suggestion! Thanks - I think I'll try that

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John Ressler

Wow. Glad things weren't worse.

It's a good idea to unplug bending irons and blankets immediately after use. There's really no reason to leave something like that plugged in. I do the same with household clothes irons...

I left a glue pot on for several days. all the water evaporated, but no harm other than wasted electricity. Good thing there is a heat regulator on it. I know the feeling though, of "woooow...I could have just burned my house down."

Wow, I am glad it didn't start a fire in your shop; close call!

Filippo, I use one of these. This one is from McMaster Carr but I found the same thing for less at Home Depot. I have it wired into the circuit for my heating blanket. I can't turn the blanket on until the timer is on.

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Steve Smith
"Music is what feelings sound like"

'Light off heat off' is good until a bulb burns out. Better than nothing, but not failsafe.

Thank gosh the big-man was looking over you that day! WOW!


Joe

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Joe

I have done the same thing, left mine on overnight, found out it was still on the next day when I grabbed a hold of it to put it away . It's to easy to forget to turn it off, I stopped using mine and went back to a piece of pipe and a torch, if I start using mine again I will definitely get a timer.