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Post by Stumpy on Mar 4, 2018 9:40:06 GMT
Silly Questionsi) Why does it have to be a s/s fire extinguisher ? ii) How are you going to fill it and pressurise it ? iii) Can you not use an alternative like this (See Below)? All you'd have to do is take the handle and burner off, and it's good to go. There are a few old one's on ebay like this: LINK
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2018 10:53:14 GMT
1. I prefer stainless as there is no rust risk in the tank. The burner wants really clean fuel. And fuel tanks on plastic boats should be stainless steel if possible. 2. Unscrew the valve to fill the tank. Bodge pipework with plenty of hose clips. Some fire extinguishers have a Schrader valve on the neck. I have in the past fitted a bolt-in Schrader valve to a fire extinguisher - not difficult. Pump up with a bicycle pump to 30psi (gauge on pump) 3. That's a good idea thanks for that !
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2018 11:16:18 GMT
Another good thing with a fire extinguisher is that it "wants to be closed" when under pressure. So you clip the "trigger" open to provide pressurised fuel to the burner and if you need to shut off fuel supply due to a fault you can put a trip wire in (choke cable or whatever) so that the tank (extinguisher) can be isolated quickly by the trigger closing itself and retain the pressurised fuel in a safe high pressure vessel rather than pissing it all over the boat...
Another thing about a stainless one is it once the stickers are removed it won't look too blatantly like a fire extinguisher. Having something which appears to be fire extinguisher (red) full of pressurised paraffin is a bit of a dodgy fuckup-generating situation if someone else attempts to use it for its apparent design use.
I suppose one of the old copper and brass ones would be quite nice.
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Post by phil70 on Mar 4, 2018 11:51:01 GMT
You will need to dust the plus 4s down so they don't think you are an oddball walking around London with a stolen golfists bag. OMG back in the 60s I had a tweed suit made which was exactly this colour I played snooker with my tailor and he bet me a suit, I won and he honoured his word and made me a suit, I had no choice in the cloth but it was an excellent suit, the trousers were lined as Harris tweed was a tad scratchy, the colour was so unusual that I was able to get away with wearing it in the Peacock 60s Phil
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2018 12:07:51 GMT
My maternal grandfather was in the rag trade and worked with Harris Tweed. According to him anything else was "muck put together with spit".
I don't have any Tweed. I had a couple of jackets from charity shops but it is so far removed from my dress style I never wore them.
I do have a Nairobi Cricket Club yellow/black blazer for Henley to be fair. I also have a blue and black Oxford college blazer but twats always ask me what college I went to and can't handle it when I say it was from eBay and that I didn't go to college.
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Post by thebfg on Mar 5, 2018 15:50:57 GMT
Another good thing with a fire extinguisher is that it "wants to be closed" when under pressure. So you clip the "trigger" open to provide pressurised fuel to the burner and if you need to shut off fuel supply due to a fault you can put a trip wire in (choke cable or whatever) so that the tank (extinguisher) can be isolated quickly by the trigger closing itself and retain the pressurised fuel in a safe high pressure vessel rather than pissing it all over the boat... Another thing about a stainless one is it once the stickers are removed it won't look too blatantly like a fire extinguisher. Having something which appears to be fire extinguisher (red) full of pressurised paraffin is a bit of a dodgy fuckup-generating situation if someone else attempts to use it for its apparent design use. I suppose one of the old copper and brass ones would be quite nice. I had not thought about that. It would scare the shit out of someone. Imagine using a fire extinguisher and allnitvdoes is make the fire worse.
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