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Old 24-01-2024, 02:40 PM   #91
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Default Re: like the look of a fire extingisher in your car but think its to expensive?

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Something to keep in mind if you’re going to fight a fire, the discharge time on a 1Kg fire extinguisher is less than 6 seconds. They’re designed for small kitchen fires and such.
The smaller fire extinguishers also have the drawback that they dont have a hose, which limits their effectiveness/applications in automotive fires where you often need a hose.
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Old 24-01-2024, 03:58 PM   #92
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The fire extinguisher in my boat expired, so i bought 2. Put 1 in the car. I have had to use and replace the one in my car. No my car did not catch fire. It served 2 purposes, 1st was to extinguish my brother, then to extinguish his car. Dont wear oily gloves when trying to revive an old car. Backfires out the intake, well, the name implys fire.
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Old 24-01-2024, 04:24 PM   #93
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yeah a 1kg won't put out a blaze, but if you catch things quickly enough it may be enough to save yourself and maybe your car - or someone else.

I've witnessed a few other drivers pull over assist someone who had an unfortunate visit from uncle rodney while on Wakefield Park, there was a few 1kg's thrown at it, it was enough to keep things from getting out of hand until the fire marshals got to the car with multiple 9kg's
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Had to replace a 1kg unit recently. It did the job and put the fire out - a 2 stroke mower that caught on fire.

That was a bit of unexpected excitement.
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Old 28-03-2024, 11:59 AM   #95
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Always worth carrying an in-date fire extinguisher in the car (even if it's only 1kg version). I was lucky (unlucky) enough to have to use one on old fire retardant bulkhead matting that had sagged towards the cat. Did the job 👍

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Always worth carrying an in-date fire extinguisher in the car (even if it's only 1kg version). I was lucky (unlucky) enough to have to use one on old fire retardant bulkhead matting that had sagged towards the cat. Did the job 👍

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This is a repost of my old post in the forum back in 2011. Worth repeating here about the value of the 1kg extinguishers. No, it didn't put out a car fire.
But it bought valuable seconds to escape.

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This story goes back about fifteen years or so (Edit: circa 1996) … the Missus was driving through Chermside when the car in front started to billow smoke. Everyone started flashing there lights and honking horns at the car. When it pulled over, flames shoot out from under the bonnet. A very pregnant driver gets out and immediately opens the rear door to start extracting kids, including one strapped into a child seat. (We later find out she was in labour and was dropping the kids off at her parent’s place.)

While this was happening, the Missus grabs the fire extinguisher from our car, runs over and sprays it through the front grill of the burning car to buy the driver more time to extract the kids. By the time our small extinguisher has been emptied, a truck driver had run over with his extinguisher. But, he didn’t know how to use it. Luckily, the Missus (who was also a nurse) had been trained on how to use it. She grabs the large extinguisher and dumps that through the grill as well. With all the kids safely out, everyone retreats. The car keeps burning until QFRS arrive, a very short period later.

I was very impressed with the Missus that day. When those “mother instincts” kick in it is amazing what they will do.

The moral of the story is about the truck driver who did not know how to use an extinguisher. A little bit of training and forethought goes a long way.
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Feeling pretty invincible at the moment after picked up a few 1kg extinguishers.
Couldn't believe it, guy was just throwing them away

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Feeling pretty invincible at the moment after picked up a few 1kg extinguishers.
Couldn't believe it, guy was just throwing them away
I hope it is clean. Carbon tetrachloride is a nasty chemical.
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I hope it is clean. Carbon tetrachloride is a nasty chemical.
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I have always kept a 1kg Dry Chemical fire extinguisher in the boot of my car.



Years ago, was once driving home on the freeway and a car in front of me suddenly stopped in the middle of the road, smoke billowing from under the bonnet, I stopped, jumped out, grabbed my extinguisher and ran over yelling at the bloke not to lift up his bonnet, emptied the extinguisher in the vicinity of the battery, through the cracked open bonnet, which put the fire out, told the bloke to call the fire brigade and left him to it.

If he had lifted the bonnet and I had not been around, the outcome would have been far worse.

Part of my job was lecturing in fire safety.

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