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6th June 2020, 06:44 PM
#12921
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I sent a report and photos to Snowys today and spoke to them. Will call in there on Monday as followup. If they dont take it off the market I will report it to product safe Australia.
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6th June 2020 06:44 PM
# ADS
Circuit advertisement
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7th June 2020, 09:22 AM
#12922
Travelling Podologist
Originally Posted by
TPC
Bought a new gas heater for camping today, worked great and was so warm.
I fell asleep in the annex and couple of hours later wife wakes up to burning smell, comes out to find flames high from heater. The hose had melted and gas was burning from hose. At least I was warm.
Strewth! Lucky you woke up! I guess being in the annexe you had plenty of air flow? Folk have failed to wake up using gas heaters inside vans & tents, let alone the risk of being well toasted.!
2006 4.2TDi ex-Telstra Remote area Camper. 425w roof mounted solar, 360Ah Aux batts, BCDC1240, Onboard hot & cold pressurised & filtered water, (25 litre hot water calorifier), ARB fridge, ARB freezer, Built in kitchen, heaps of easy access storage, 240v, 3” Genie exhaust + dynotune, 2” lift, 3900kg GVM upgrade, second glovebox, ROH Blaktrak steel wheels, Bridgestone D697's (now Toyo RT's), Redarc gauges/pillarpod, Hema HX-1, Icom 450 CB, dual rear view cameras, Onboard 30amp Victron mains charger, second glovebox, dual seat conversion, TPMS, Boss PX7 onboard air with 9 litre tank, 350w inverter, Steel bullbar, Harrop Eaton diff lock (front), Warn winch, Snorkel, Dual spares , 160 litre water tank, 180 litre fuel in two tanks (approx 1200km range) 2010 Tvan Tanami. (incl another 70 litre water tank) with matching wheels/tyres (& 3rd spare)
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7th June 2020, 10:09 AM
#12923
I have an old chescold 3 way and it leaked gas out of the hose connection and that caught fire off the pilot light. The fridge was outside the door of the tent and by luck the jetstream headed away from the tent. Turned out to be worn threads on the hose , unit was sent back and repaired under warranty, but have never used it again on gas, just don't trust it.
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7th June 2020, 12:12 PM
#12924
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I was so lucky the stream went up, any other direction and something would have caught fire. I slept through it, was luck wife woke up needing to go to toilet.
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9th June 2020, 05:48 PM
#12925
Originally Posted by
TPC
I was so lucky the stream went up, any other direction and something would have caught fire. I slept through it, was luck wife woke up needing to go to toilet.
Bloody hell mate, time to buy a lotto ticket.
There was that time in Killarney when those 2 young girls died in an annexe or tent from a gas heater.
Last edited by 10G; 9th June 2020 at 05:51 PM.
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9th June 2020, 05:49 PM
#12926
Not angry, but what the hell are these things for??
People keep sending them to me.
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9th June 2020, 05:51 PM
#12927
Expert
Originally Posted by
10G
Not angry, but what the hell are these things for??
People keep sending them to me.
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Bottle opener
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9th June 2020, 06:13 PM
#12928
Oh of course, ah and that flat bit would be for lifting up 'ring pulls'.
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10th June 2020, 03:18 PM
#12929
I received a wiring diagram today that made no sense and actually would not work. I sketched out what i thought was the solution, and bingo, all good. i then rang the supplier and tried to explain to him that his supplied diagram required modification but he wasn't interested. I then asked if he has his circuit installed, and he replied he has tested '1000's' of these devices using his test bed and not a problem, so I asked if he could have a quick look at the wiring for the relay and confirm it is as per the supplied drawing. He got all pissy but went away and returned about 5 minutes later to tell me the test unit was wired differently to the drawing. i explained how it should be wired and funny enough, thats just how it IS wired. To that he started off on a rant about 'the chinese and the local sparky who wired it and updated the drawing - and funny enough, not even a thank you for sorting it out and letting me know - maybe he was having a bad day, but a bit of gratitude would not go astray - his voiced trailed off as he was wingeing about having to change his documentation etc - UNBELIEVE IT! It was a neg earth switching circuit, so a little different but not greatly.
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10th June 2020, 03:39 PM
#12930
Travelling Podologist
Originally Posted by
10G
Not angry, but what the hell are these things for??
People keep sending them to me.
Send one to me if you have a spare you don't need. I'll pay the postage. Tried to buy a bottle opener in Mareeba a couple of weeks ago. Amazingly none of the bottle shops had one & ended up buying a thingo from Coles ,cos it was the only one I could find. Takes 2 or 3 attempts on every bottle & I hate it. I've got one like yours at home which Harrops gave me when I got the e-locker fitted, but it's not much good to me down there.
2006 4.2TDi ex-Telstra Remote area Camper. 425w roof mounted solar, 360Ah Aux batts, BCDC1240, Onboard hot & cold pressurised & filtered water, (25 litre hot water calorifier), ARB fridge, ARB freezer, Built in kitchen, heaps of easy access storage, 240v, 3” Genie exhaust + dynotune, 2” lift, 3900kg GVM upgrade, second glovebox, ROH Blaktrak steel wheels, Bridgestone D697's (now Toyo RT's), Redarc gauges/pillarpod, Hema HX-1, Icom 450 CB, dual rear view cameras, Onboard 30amp Victron mains charger, second glovebox, dual seat conversion, TPMS, Boss PX7 onboard air with 9 litre tank, 350w inverter, Steel bullbar, Harrop Eaton diff lock (front), Warn winch, Snorkel, Dual spares , 160 litre water tank, 180 litre fuel in two tanks (approx 1200km range) 2010 Tvan Tanami. (incl another 70 litre water tank) with matching wheels/tyres (& 3rd spare)
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