Well, you still need some carbide for above-ground, after-caving fun - carbide, bottle, water, cap, fire :-)
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, June 11, 2010 3:09 PM To: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: RE: [Texascavers] Flaming near death in a Cave Wow, after reading all of these near-death incidents caused by or around carbide, it makes me wonder why anyone would consider not switching to 100% LED use! Mark ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Fri 6/11/2010 3:03 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Texascavers] Flaming near death in a Cave Rod Goke may remember this event. I forwarded this death or injury by fire thread to another old Florida caver and he wrote back with a good old tale I'd forgotten about: "Subject: RE: Flaming near death in a Cave Do you remember the exploding Flash Attachment I had on one caving trip? It turned out that gas from my carbide lamp probably seeped into the flash attachment & when I took a picture the electrical spark within the Flash Attachment caused the explosion. The sound was more frightening than the explosion. " I'm surprised I forget that one, because like Steve says, there was quite a loud blast. No injury, but I do believe that was the last time he could use that flash attachment. Roger Moore GHG -- IMPORTANT NOTICE: The contents of this email and any attachments are confidential and may also be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately and do not disclose the contents to any other person, use it for any purpose, or store or copy the information in any medium. Thank you.
