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Post by Deleted on Sept 29, 2016 7:59:47 GMT
Eventually found what I think is the date stamped on the back of the short steel shaft coming out of the top of the extinguisher (just under the lever). It says 8/97. So it sounds like the BSS disapprove if it's over 20 years old.
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Post by Stumpy on Sept 29, 2016 8:36:50 GMT
Just bought a new set for the boat as they only just scraped through on my last BSC. Question. What do you do with the old ones? The child in me wants to let them off.... Strap 'em to an office chair or shopping trolley
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Post by twbm2 on Sept 29, 2016 13:14:59 GMT
Back in the 80's, I was driving a Panda Car one night duty along a duel carriage way in Woolwich when I was overtaken by the Area Car Rover SD1. It pulled in front of me and matched my speed, Slowly the Passenger door opened and a hand came out holding a fire extinguisher. The resulting Powder explosion covered the windscreen completely, entered the car through the airvents also covering me and my mate. took us 2 hours to clean that car and I never did get my revenge What, no teleprinter tape punch-outs to carefully fill the heater air intake with? A colleague who's ex London fire tells me one of their tricks was to take the liquid that mixes with water in a foam generator and fill the senior officers WC cistern with it.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 29, 2016 13:59:17 GMT
Just bought a new set for the boat as they only just scraped through on my last BSC. Question. What do you do with the old ones? The child in me wants to let them off.... Strap 'em to an office chair or shopping trolleyΒ II don't know how good a powder extinguisher would be for that application? Co2 on the other hand...
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Post by phil70 on Sept 29, 2016 14:58:24 GMT
Just bought a new set for the boat as they only just scraped through on my last BSC. Question. What do you do with the old ones? The child in me wants to let them off.... Listen to your inner child I let one go as a kid at Buckby top lock, dad was in the pub, we were left in the care of my older brother (he was 12 at the time - back in the days when kids could be left in cars or boats outside the pub!!)) Loosed off said fire extinguisher, shit!! Powder everywhere! What does a 10 year old do in a panic situation? Throw it in the cut and get rid of the evidence! Wrong!?! Canal now covered in white powder along with the Boat, me and my mate. My brother grassed us up as soon as dad got back. Bloody snitch!
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Post by loafer on Sept 29, 2016 15:21:25 GMT
Like lifejackets, emergency ladders, flares, GPS help beacons, the whole works, I never needed any ONE of them in 11 years of living on boats (both yachts at sea, and now narrowboats). Just don't fall in, don't leave the bottom door open on your stove when you go t't pub or t't bed, don't put the still-warm bbq in the cratch when you go to bed, don't smoke in bed, don't keep petrol indoors (like we do) and generally just gaze at the sunset with no worries. You'll be fine! Same here but you still need a BSC. Indeed you do, but only every 4 years!
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Post by Saltysplash on Sept 29, 2016 18:17:22 GMT
What, no teleprinter tape punch-outs to carefully fill the heater air intake with? A colleague who's ex London fire tells me one of their tricks was to take the liquid that mixes with water in a foam generator and fill the senior officers WC cistern with it. Fingerprint Ink under the door handles
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Post by Stumpy on Sept 29, 2016 23:12:27 GMT
Fingerprint Ink under the door handles Engineers Blue on: crash helmet straps, jewelers inspection glass and spectacle arms.
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