ESL Removable Smoke Chambers

Aug 13, 2006 5 Replies

Well, had a different one yesterday. Its pretty typical to pop the smoke chamber off an ESL smoke and find it choked with dust after a few years, but I had a smoke falsing yesterday that surprised me.



I popped the smoke chamber off, and it was pretty darned clean. I put a new chamber on it anyway just to be safe. Then as I was walking out to the truck with the old chamber in hand I saw a little spider crawl out from between the baffles.



Hmmm....



Yep. You ever see those tiny white ones in there? They almost look like tiny balls of dust. I usually just wash the chambers and dry the out with a hair dryer. Don't have to worry much with Hochikis, you can dunk the whole head under the faucet.

Had one last week that had a few white specs. Pointed at them with my screwdriver to show the customer and connected to a spider web that had covered the inside of the chamber.

If they keep making these spiders that small that they can crawl thru the bug screen, what is the size of the bug the spider is trying to catch??? It BOGGLES the mind.

They're weird ain't they! Client wouldn't believe me that that was what was causing all the false alarms..refused to believe that it was a spider until she saw it move.

| > I popped the smoke chamber off, and it was pretty darned clean. I put a | > new chamber on it anyway just to be safe. Then as I was walking out to | > the truck with the old chamber in hand I saw a little spider crawl out | > from between the baffles. | >

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If I remember right, I think I remember seeing on some TV program, that newly "hatched" spiders carry an "egg sack" with them containing a food subtance that can sustain them for months until they reach a size that is more formidible. The problem is, once they grow too big, they can't get back out through the screen.

I guess these little webs are just "training webs" ...Heh heh heh heh!

Tell her they're crabs.

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