The 4th edition of my manual, now for spinners as well as jugglers, is available as a free pdf on the front page of www.foreworks.com. A 28-page printed copy is also available.
There are a number of sites, usually of vendors, that have safety articles or manuals for fire players. It might be a good thing to have them all listed in one place (or have I missed a section that you already have, again, Tedward?)
There are a number of sites, usually of vendors, that have safety articles or manuals for fire players. It might be a good thing to have them all listed in one place (or have I missed a section that you already have, again, Tedward?)
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Re: Fire Safety manual
Fri, May 16, 2008 - 10:00 PMWell, I gotta say I love the revision. The notes I have this time are much more "nit-picky" than systematic.
Biodiesel - despite it's compatibility with diesel fuel, I don't think it can be lumped in with Kerosene. It's a polar, non-petroleum, solvent. But workable in this context.
Nomex is quite flammable. Pure nomex burns at 450 degrees. Nomex >Blends< are generally the non-flammable ones, and most of them are more than 50% Kevlar. Most people won't be able to get ahold of the pure stuff though, so not really as relevant.
Staves and Torches - are known to have been used as long as 300,000 years ago all over the world for fire use. There's almost no chance their art forms were developed along the pacific rim.
And that's about all I could catch on a first run. Nice job.
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Re: Fire Safety manual
Fri, May 16, 2008 - 10:04 PMAnd, no, I don't have a list of safety links. Usually, I just send people to NAFAA. Partly because it doesn't often come up, and partially because some of the safety info out there is from the old days of superstitions and hearsay. If they want something a bit chattier, I do what everyone else does and send them to my own safety site. :oP -
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Re: Fire Safety manual
Sat, May 17, 2008 - 8:54 PMThanky for the kind words.
The chem stuff is largely beyond me. No background. So I'll leave further discussion of biodiesel & the like to when you and others here get it all worked out and in some form resembling simple English. In the meantime, let me know what's outright wrong or misleading and I'll fix it.
Another thing I'd like to include is basic info on colored fire. People are determined to use it no matter what the cost so long as it doesn't kill them instantly. Me, I'm old school enough to run screaming from it. However, I believe that in another post you speak of blowing blue fire, so we must be approaching a reasonable level of risk management here or you're a lot crazier than I think you are.
As to where to send people, if my stuff isn't sufficient I send them to you. I send them to you anyway.
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Re: Fire Safety manual
Sun, May 18, 2008 - 2:03 AMOh, no. Not me buddy. I let someone else breath that schtuff... yuuck.
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