<VV> incredible tiny garage fire!

[George Jones]

Reflection from concave top of air cleaner focused the sun on the underside
of the box flap. Hmmmm.... angle of the sun..... distance from the cleaner
top to the box top...... curvature of the mirrored surface..... a lot of
things had to be just right to make that happen.

George Jones
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On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 3:43 PM, Matt Nall <patiomatt at aol.com> wrote:

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> some things in a corner out of my way, about 30 minutes later I suddenly
> smelled something burning while moving some things around and looked over
> to find the corner of a cardboard box on fire!  Take a look at the
> pictures... what happened is crazy!
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> Matt Nall
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