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  1. 07-08-2010, 02:02 PM #1
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    I have my thoughts and think I got to see first hand what happens when you forget to turn them on after fueling up at marina. TWRA is investigating, Check out Chattanoogan.com story yesterday when boat caught fire at harrison bay. Me my wife, son and daughter had just launched our boat I was waiting on my wife to park truck and BOOM I thought someone shot a gun under one of the covered docks and when I turned around I saw back seats, koolers and boat parts flying out of this cruiser at the gas dock. A women went over board so I raced over to assist her, I heard the auto halon system go off and extinguish fire and in no time rescue pepole were there. Minor injuries to lady that went in the water but dang that could have been real bad. I think that incident drove home to start blowers first wait then turn key.
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  2. 07-08-2010, 02:11 PM #2
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    Wow. I always do it but still good to get a refresher why I do it.
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  3. 07-08-2010, 03:25 PM #3
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    Dang. Very fortunate.

    "Lt. Clift estimated the spill only involved about 10 gallons of gas."

    If they just filled up with fuel, does this guy work for BP or taking lessons from them? I guess most would still be in the tank or burned.
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    I just replaced my blower before this past weekend, it hadn't been working (turned out the old one was just seized and works now). I'm really lucky nothing happend up to the replacement being put in.
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  5. 07-09-2010, 10:48 AM #5
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    removed erroneous post
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    After fueling at the dock is pretty much the most important time to run the blowers.
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    my blowers run 24/7......until I'm running over 20......
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    Do you honestly mean 24/7? I've thought it would be nice to keep my blowers running while it was in my driveway just to keep dry air moving through wet ares.... I just suspected that the motors wouldn't last that long. Do you run them out of the water???
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    I forgot to turn mine off. And it popped the circuit breaker after about 20 min.
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    Quote Originally Posted by wotan2525 View Post
    Do you honestly mean 24/7? I've thought it would be nice to keep my blowers running while it was in my driveway just to keep dry air moving through wet ares.... I just suspected that the motors wouldn't last that long. Do you run them out of the water???
    Not really, but for $30 I'm not worried about burning one up. I just run them alot....
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