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From: "Gerald Brazil"
> I picked up at a surplus store a stainless steel liquid type fire
> extinguisher for next to nothing. This is the type that has a squeeze
> handle and a hose and is pressurized with air through a Schrader valve(a
> tire valve) in the top. I replaced the hose with a quick disconnect and
> then added a coiled air hose with another quick disconnect so I can
> switch from a tire chuck to a blow gun. Works great. I generally fill it
> to 125 # but one time I left it hooked up to a compressor too long and
> it was registering 250#. I am still here to tell about it, but I
> wouldn't push my luck again.
That sounded SCARY ''til I read the instruction plate on my similar unit . .
."tested to 500 PSI".
I have a habit of using a clip-on chuck for filling my air tanks . . . then I
walk "way over there" while it's filling!
Tony
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