Ever had something set in garage and break

[SPYDERLK]

Not in a garage, but I once towed a wagon running gear loaded with logs a few miles to a neighbors to get it milled.
It sat there for a few months until one day they heard a cannon go off next to it.....or so they thought.
The front tire had decided to explode out of the blue. Just sitting there.

You say the boat was in a shop, but does heating cycle or sunlight (through a window) shine on it?
Sometimes things "just sitting there" can have tremendous expansion and contraction forces acting on them caused by heat/sunlight/cooling cycles. When the tire exploded it was good maple syrup sugaring weather (sunny days, cool nights) and those steel belts were cycling until a few let go...and then the rest let go...suddenly.

...or maybe gremlins.

:thumbsup: Yes. Thermal cycling is a powerful "unseen" stressor. This is especially true where different materials, having differing expansion coefficients, interact.

 

[stuckmotor]

However - many years ago - before something ate my barn cats - one got accidentally shut up in my work shop. Took me a week to pick up and clean up the mess that cat made. And he was only in there for two days. Subsequently - I've cut a small swinging door at the bottom of the main door. Fortunately - nothing vicious nor evil has entered the work shop. Knock on wood........

The doors in nearly all of the out buildings on my grandparent's farm had a rectangular cat hole cut from the bottom.

 

[k0ua]

Another "unseen" stressor in switches and fuse holders (the inline kind) is spring pressure. There are often springs that push against plastic all the time. If the plastic cracks due to age or thermal expansion/contraction, there is always that spring to "explode" it.

 

[the old grind]

My son had two frost-proof sill-cocks blow apart two Summers after we'd installed them in one job, one in March and one in September IIRC. One drained to the sump, the other soaked yearbooks, pictures, memorabilia from school & college, etc.

Leaky containers? Kroil will characteristically seep through the bottom seam of the can by the forth or fifth time it's been set down hard.

 

[RalphVa]

Need to have Toyota airplanes and boats. **** Tacoma just sits and sits and sits (on battery tender). Fires up every time and runs great like a good appliance should. Not much fun to drive: just a good appliance.

Ralph

 

[2LaneCruzer]

My son had two frost-proof sill-cocks blow apart two Summers after we'd installed them in one job, one in March and one in September IIRC. One drained to the sump, the other soaked yearbooks, pictures, memorabilia from school & college, etc.

Leaky containers? Kroil will characteristically seep through the bottom seam of the can by the forth or fifth time it's been set down hard.

Yeah, I once bought a jug of Muriatic Acid (the industrial grade of Hydrochloric Acid). Can't recall why I bought it, but it is great for cleaning things. I left it in the cabinet in the garage for quite some time, and when I finally got into the cabinet, it obviously had emitted vapor; everything metal in and around the cabinet had corroded.

 

[Slowpoke Slim]

I haven't had anything "mysteriously break" since the kid moved away to college. Although her car does have a few "mystery scrapes" in the paint now.



But I did have an old spare tire for one of my trailers blow apart one afternoon, while it was just leaning up against the outside wall of my shop. It was pretty old, and badly dry rotted, and I was just keeping it for the wheel more than anything. But it did still have air in it. One afternoon, it just went "boom", while I was working in the shop. Tread separated from the carcass.

 

[breadtrk]

Need to have Toyota airplanes and boats. **** Tacoma just sits and sits and sits (on battery tender). Fires up every time and runs great like a good appliance should. Not much fun to drive: just a good appliance.

Ralph

I have a 82 diesel Chevy Luv like that. It has a manure spreader instead of a bed and is only used once a year. Can't kill it, ain't changed oil in 20 yrs, ****, it has 10 yr old fuel in it. Put the battery charger on it a week before I plan on using it, run it like the dog it is, then park it back under the black walnut grove. I got it for free and put some JD AG tires on it in 90 something. I have never had to buy any parts for it, never had to work on anything.... even the AC still works.