Saved by the...

[lirion]

Actually, I don't know what saved me.
In the process of cleaning, I jsut unplugged the extension cord my oil heater is plugged into, so I cna put it away given proper Summer has now arrived. The heater had been a bit dodgy the last couple of times I used it - it's old and I figued was wearing out.
But nothing rpepared me for unplugging the cords and finding the connection a melted black and brown ruin. Scary shit! I am incredibly lucky it did not cause a fire. The connecting plug has blackened metal pronbgs and melted palstic stuck to it. The socket of the extension cord is irretrievably damaged, burned and melte dbeyond and use. I can't describe it. But it gave me one hell of a shock to look at! The heater shall be going to it's final death, and I shall be grateful the circuit was killed rather than starting a fire.

Comments

[txxxpxx.livejournal.com]

Did you have it on a timer? I had a similar thing happen when we had a column heater in the bathroom set on a timer so it was warm when we went to have our shower in the morning.

Very scary. Please make sure you cut both the extension cord & the heater plugs off before disposing of them....just in case.

Glad that things didn't turn out waaaaay worse.

[muukau.livejournal.com]

Wow, very lucky indeed!

Oil heaters always make me nervous. Especially old ones. >_>

[shadow-5tails.livejournal.com]

*twiiiitch*

Well, I'm glad you're discovering it this way, long after the fact, rather than the other...

(Also, "shocked" seems entirely too apt an emotion for a post like this - in all the wrong ways.)

[penguin2.livejournal.com]

Argh, it seems sometimes that the elements (literally and figuratively?) have it in for you! What with all your running troubles with things involving heat and water :-S

I too am glad you discovered this when things were less...electric :-)

[vaingloriesque.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you're ok. :)