Burn test - kilt materials

[pipesndrumsnun]

Hmmm...very interesting!

[Archangel]

By the way. Plan for emergencies now because you can't do it when it is happening. As a burn victim (read: welder) let me remind all that slapping burning clothes does no favour to the victim. Wool is thick enough to keep the heat away from flesh but people slapping at burning synthetics simply pushes the burning material onto the flesh. Pull the material away from my bod, please, then slap it silly. My second scar is from somebody being "helpful". I actually had it under control before the "help" came but I guess a burning shirt scared him more than me. Oh well, he meant well.

[Ozman1944]

Remember the hot clingy pure Nylon shirts in the 60's?
I always got home from a party with holes burned into it from someone dancing nearby with a lit cigarette. (Yes, we used to smoke EVERYWHERE - Supernarkets, Restuarants, Malls, Department Stores, Banks, Post Offices, Hospitals-both patients, doctors and visitors, Doctor's offices, etc. Church was the only place it was banned.

[McFarkus]

My second scar is from somebody being "helpful". I actually had it under control before the "help" came but I guess a burning shirt scared him more than me. Oh well, he meant well.

Ouch!!! Keep the good Samaritans away

[ccga3359]

Yes, we used to smoke EVERYWHERE - Supernarkets, Restuarants, Malls, Department Stores, Banks, Post Offices, Hospitals-both patients, doctors and visitors, Doctor's offices, etc. Church was the only place it was banned.

**Sigh** I miss those days.

[McMurdo]

Remember the hot clingy pure Nylon shirts in the 60's?
I always got home from a party with holes burned into it from someone dancing nearby with a lit cigarette. (Yes, we used to smoke EVERYWHERE - Supernarkets, Restuarants, Malls, Department Stores, Banks, Post Offices, Hospitals-both patients, doctors and visitors, Doctor's offices, etc. Church was the only place it was banned.

I know this is a wee bit of topic but I remember having an ashtray on my desk at work, and getting on the subway with a lit cig. Ah the good old days.

[ccga3359]

I know this is a wee bit of topic but I remember having an ashtray on my desk at work, and getting on the subway with a lit cig. Ah the good old days.

Actually I've heard that surgeons in Montreal now have to butt out during surgury. Bummer.

My point about cigarettes is that they are safer (less of an ignition source I mean) than those of yesterday. I would run a test but my cigs come from the reserve and don't have this safer paper .

[Wompet]

And here I was, going to enlist your help for Phase II - more common source of ignition, at lower temperature.

[ccga3359]

And here I was, going to enlist your help for Phase II - more common source of ignition, at lower temperature.

As mentioned my cigarettes of lesser regulations do continue to smoulder on there own (which, I believe is under 450°F) I'll see if I can dig up ignition points of the various materials. Are we going to test it on McMurdo's kilts ?

[McMurdo]

As mentioned my cigarettes of lesser regulations do continue to smoulder on there own (which, I believe is under 450°F) I'll see if I can dig up ignition points of the various materials. Are we going to test it on McMurdo's kilts ?

lets see what the flash point of leather is instead, or perhaps a rubber chicken. Wait I know I do have this Beaver Sporran in the car.....