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during our meeting yesterday the fire alarms went off because people were working on the school and set a birds nest on fire while welding. right after the alarms went off it sounded like a huge pile of metal poles fell down the stairs...still don't know exactly what it was
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The one smell that strikes the most fear into anyone who has been on our team is this: acrid sinus-stinging smoke. Usually accompanied by "HOLY WOWSERS THE MOTOR IS SMOKING!" or "ALRIGHT! Who let the magic white smoke out of the wires?!"
(last year we had a nuclear 'shroom cloud in miniature proportions when we managed to melt a bunch of our wires and the insulation when we turned the bot on to check something, it wasn't pretty). So far, that horrible smell has incured the death of about 3 motors (old drill motors and 2 other motors Mr. Stokely brought in the other day. No wonder the motor wasn't working properly, it was being fried because the transmission was grinding in ways it shouldn't be) Oy. Poor motors.
