Thanks for expanding and explaining further on my tip! I recall reading on your blog about the incident in Austria – a sad story, with a sad ending. This is a very real threat.

To my readers: I encourage you to follow the link to Bob’s blog, where he provided the details in the case earlier this year. It will be worth reading.

Thanks for sharing your experience. The idea of a clothes line close to the shop is terrific! I might do that, too!

The worst culprit in the finishes we use are the oils, linseed oil in particular. Oily rags MUST be either spread out to dry (for potential reuse), or immersed in water until they can be squeezed dry and burnt. There are no other choices. Put them in the trash can and you might have a fire in the can. Leave them out for the trash removal people and you might have a fire in their truck.

While visiting my daughter’s family in Austria we heard fire sirens one evening. My son-in-law, who works at a hospital came home the next day with the story. A workshop had caught fire. An elderly couple who lived n an apartment above the workshop perished. Cause: an apprentice didn’t know the hazard of oily rags and left them wadded up in a trash can inside the shop. …more here…

Al Gotowka

It made a believer out of ME – it is a sweet jig!

The fact that this jig can cut both box and DT joints with minimal fuss… it may have made a believer out of me…