Mine is horizontal. Seemed to fit well in the footwell of my Spitfire.
But yow! Been in there since 2005? While it?s out of the car, you should really
have it checked and refilled. The powder in the bottle can cake over time and
even if the gauge shows green, you pull the handle and nothin? happens. Find
any fire and emergency equipment supplier in your yellow pages and take the
bottle to them. They?ll check it out, reload it, hang a new tag on it. It?s
something that should be done every couple of years or so ? ask them how often
when you take it in, but I guarantee 13 years is too long!
They can probably give you the best answer as far as mounting it too, as long
as you?re in their neighborhood.
--Rocky Entriken
From: Mike Harmuth via Fot
Sent: Saturday, April 14, 2018 12:26 PM
To: FoTTriumph
Subject: [Fot] Mounting position for Haylon
I just pulled the Haylon, plumbed in fire extinguisher, along with all the
other stuff bolted to the floor in my Spitfire to do some touch up painting.
It's been in the car since I bought it in 2005 and is still good (unscrewed the
bottle and checked the cable pull as well). My question is, how should it be
mounted? It's currently horizontal, which makes me think it's going to
discharge liquid if I ever have to use it. Should it be mounted vertically or
it it designed to dump liquid out which will then vaporize and push out the
air, strangulating the fire?
Google is no help, all I get are ads for green replacement type systems.
thanks
mike h
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