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Wednesday 15 September 2010

Smoke Alert

There I was, vacuuming the caravan carpet, so that it would be all clean and tidy for next weekend’s rally at Paekakariki. As I stepped outside to shake the mat, the cleaner’s engine started slowing down and sounded quite sick indeed. A quick flick of the wrists to shake the mat and I stepped back inside. To find smoke billowing out of the cleaner and the smoke alarm loudly calling out “danger, danger”. Oh dear! I quickly unplugged” the cleaner and dragged it outside. As quick as a wink, the caravan had filled with smoke. It just goes to show how quickly an appliance can short circuit and cause a fire.

DSCF4191 The offending vacuum cleaner

The Electrolux cleaner is well over 20 years old, so we have certainly got our money’s worth out of it. Guess we will have to go shopping and buy a new one now.

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