- Location
- Arlington wa
Last night I was installing my bilge pump. Used JB Kwik Weld to attach the bilge to my hull near the stock bilge. 20 mins later i was wiring and went to heat up my shrink tubing using a lighter. The vapors from the JB weld filled the bottom of my hull and the lighter ignited them. Big blue fire ball inside my ski, singed all my arm hair. Luckily just before grabbing my lighter I moved my open bottle off acetone (for prepping the bilge mating surfaces). I just wanted to post this as a reminder/warning to others not to be an idiot like me. However now I am worried about even using a heat gun in there for my shrink wrap. It doesn't have an open flame and I already lit most of the vapors so I should be fine, but still worried about it.