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Re: 60s Style Fire Extinguisher

To: "Greg MAHNEY" <mahney@central.murdoch.edu.au>
Subject: Re: 60s Style Fire Extinguisher
From: "Tony Clark" <lotus.tony@airmail.net>
Date: Sun, 20 Sep 1998 23:40:37 -0500
Sure, that was about the only portable-type extinguisher around back in the
40s and 50s.  The fluid was Carbon-tetrachloride or "Carbon-Tet" and I think
that it now considered in the top ten "toxic-material" list.  I'd shine it
up and mount it but I'd fill it with "Foster's"!


-----Original Message-----
From: Greg MAHNEY <mahney@central.murdoch.edu.au>
To: spridgets@Autox.Team.Net <spridgets@Autox.Team.Net>;
shop-talk@Autox.Team.Net <shop-talk@Autox.Team.Net>
Date: Sunday, September 20, 1998 9:34 PM
Subject: 60s Style Fire Extinguisher


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>On the weekend I found (in a shop) an old fire extiguisher.  I'm hoping
>someone from the Spridgets or Shop-Talk Lists might be able to tell me
>about old style extinguishers.
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>Basically it is a chrome metal canister, with a small nozzel at on end and
>a pump handle at the other.  The transfer type label, which would probably
>tell me what I need to know, has almost completely worn away, but I  found
>a VERY similar item in a 1966 catalog.
>I would like to put it in my Sprite for show days etc, but not use it (it's
>probably illegal anyway?)
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>The catalog entry described it as 1 Quart capacity, SIMPLEX brand, AUTO
>model extiguisher for "car and small switchboard fires", with a double
>action pump to put the "fire fighting fluid" where it is needed.
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>1.  Any ideas what this fire fighting fluid might be - is it going to kill
>me (the extinguisher seems to be empty)
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>2.  Assuming someone can guess what I'm talking about, any idea if there
>are any "user serviceable parts"  in this sort of extinguisher?
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>3.  Any  other info on this?
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>I think I can make out a small map of Australia on the label so it may be a
>uniquely Australian thing, but they may have been widely used and someone
>might know about his thing - anyone?
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>Thanks
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>Greg
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>Greg Mahney in Perth, Western Australia.
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>Mk 2A, Sprite, with a 948 engine (and it's my wife's anyway!)
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>e-mail:  mahney@central.murdoch.edu.au
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