Re: Smoke alarms

[Bob La Londe <none@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 5/2/2011 3:31 PM, ABLE1 wrote:
> "G. Morgan"<usenet_abuse@xxxxxxxxx>  wrote in message
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>> ABLE1 Wrote:
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>>> I use to put in all ESL 521BXT's up till I got a shipment of 5 detectors
>>> that were dirty out of the box.  Had some gray cloudy something inside the
>>> hockey puck.
>>
>> What, like a particulate material that could get in the sensing chamber?
>>
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> I have pictures if your are interested.  But yes, some kind of gray film
> that can be wiped off with your finger or a q-tip.  I was going to clean
> them but then had a second thought.  Took less than a nano-second.
>
> Les
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Unless they were drop shipped direct I would just assume the distributor
shelved somebody's returns.