- 1. 60s Style Fire Extinguisher (score: 1)
- Author: Greg MAHNEY <mahney@central.murdoch.edu.au>
- Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 10:26:34 +0800
- 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. Basically it is a chrome m
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- 2. Re: 60s Style Fire Extinguisher (score: 1)
- Author: "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-ma
- /html/shop-talk/1998-09/msg00028.html (9,130 bytes)
- 3. RE: 60s Style Fire Extinguisher (score: 1)
- Author: "Gerald Brazil" <gerrybraz@voyager.net>
- Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 07:29:15 -0400
- This is an easy on for an Old Fart. What you have is a carbon tetrachloride fire extinguisher. When carbon tet is sprayed on a fire it vaporized into a gas heavier than air which smothered the fire.
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