[SEL] Fire at Buckley Show Grounds

[Gene Waugh]

This does bring to mind that it is very, very easy to install a "rough",
unapproved but VERY EFFECTIVE sprinkler system in a shed, shop, garage etc.
as long as the space is heated.  It is possible but much more complicated to
protect unheated spaces.

Where appearance is secondary it doesn't take much to run a length of pipe
overhead and install a few heads.  You don't need the schedule 80 black iron
pipe used commercially--copper water pipe is fine; even plastics are
approved for residential use in some jurisdictions.  As long as there is
water flowing in it, it ain't gonna melt!!

Again, for shop use, the freezing factor is the biggie.  Just make sure to
guard those heads against accidental damage; they can make one heck of a
mess!!

Gene


-----Original Message-----
From: sel-bounces at lists.stationary-engine.com
[mailto:sel-bounces at lists.stationary-engine.com] On Behalf Of Richard
Strobel
Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2005 10:33 AM
To: The SEL email discussion list
Subject: Re: [SEL] Fire at Buckley Show Grounds

Man, that makes me sick.  Will use it as a wakeup call and evaluate the shed

today.  Ya know come to think about it, I don't have any fire alarms in the 
shed.  And there isn't a trip to the city goldmine that I don't find 
sprinkler heads and piping available at 15 cents a pound.

FWIW Luke, thanks for the wakeup and reminder.  That's a real loss.

later,
RickinMt.