I guess I'm just a worrier. I'm just afraid that someday our hobby will suffer the consequences that other hobbies have suffered. Take parking lot rally racing. I used to enjoy taking my Porsche out and having some fun with it at the local college. Nobody got hurt and the Police would run there cruisers with us. Then because someone wasn't thinking about safety and checking their car before the race, one of their tires came off and hit one of the attendees. The person sued and won so our hobby came to an end. This could have been avoided if the racer would have followed the rules and used the lug nuts that was required. But he was one of those guy that you couldn't tell him anything so we all lost out in the end. The same type of thing happened when I flew model aircraft. The club was given land by the local airport and the only rules were that you could not fly over the fence behind us into the runways space,you had to fly below 400 feet and you could not fly alone. That was a fair deal considering all the land we were given and the fact that the airport built the runways for us. But apparently not for everyone because one of our members decided to not only to fly his hot dog plane alone but he went over the 400 foot barrier while doing stunts and lost control of his aircraft. His aircraft crashed into a landing 727 FedEx jet and cause big trouble not only for us but the airport as well. When it was all said and done we lost our land and our AMA license and insurance just because someone could not think of others. I could go on and on about the 180 railroad park our club is in now but I'll wait for the day we get sued or kicked out because of the unsafe practices the 7 1/2 gauge guys partake in. Chad
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Harry Wade Sent: Monday, September 08, 2003 2:11 PM To: Multiple recipients of sslivesteama Subject: Re: Cheddar gas shutoff/regulator At 09:35 PM 9/8/03 +0100, you wrote: >Hands up those who have never done it! A few of us have touched on this before (at DH maybe). In observing the proceedings it became obvious to us that if and when an "injury" occurred (whatever "injury" might be) it was much more likey to result from a firing accident than a boiler accident. One thing I don't have in my tool kit which I should have is a reliable fire extinguisher. I've not had good experience with the Co2 capsule variety. Regards, Harry
