REFLECTOR: Dear Unbelievable-Fire Extinguisher (John Dibble)

[Alex Balic]

That's some crap isn't it- you save here 250k airplane, and she sends you
some  9.95 junk extinguisher back- now that is "unbelievable" -  I would
have and still would help if I saw the same thing though...

I think that the water based extinguisher would work well on that type of
fire- halon just disperses too fast for an outside fire to work very well-
good for engine compartments and behind the dash though... 

 

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From: reflector-bounces at tvbf.org [mailto:reflector-bounces at tvbf.org] On
Behalf Of HYTEC45 at aol.com
Sent: Monday, June 29, 2009 9:20 AM
To: reflector at tvbf.org
Subject: Re: REFLECTOR: Dear Unbelievable-Fire Extinguisher (John Dibble)

 

In a message dated 6/27/2009 10:26:48 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
dugasd at bellsouth.net writes:

A small halon will fit under the left side of the pilot seat 

Halon is good for inside, but don't forget the obvious.

 

I was taxiing out on an out of town trip and noticed a AerComp10 turboprop
homebuilt doing high speed taxi testing.  When it was on the opposite side
of the field, I noticed a flame coming from the right wheel.  I called and
said that they had a fire and sure enough, the right brake had caught the
gear leg/tire on fire.  The right front got out with an extinguisher and
shot it with no avail.  I hauled ass to them and bailed out with my Halon.
The guy met me, grabbed it and proceeded to piss that away also.  The
grounds were crushed lava and no real dirt to use.  By this time the tire
was the issue with flames licking up the gear leg.  The "Lady" owner had
gotten out and proceed to tell us to "get away, I think it's a loss."  Just
then, my sweetie had gotten out of the Velocity (top loader) and proceed to
sprint over with the two gallons of water I was caring (desert XC).
Daaaaug!!  I grabbed one of the gallons and pored it down the gear leg to
the tire and snuffed the thing right out.  Took the whole gallon to cool
down the tire/wheel as it was trying to flair back up.  I would have forgot
the obvious if it wasn't for my Lady.  No good deed goes unpunished as I
just asked the owner to replace my "nice chrome" halon extinguisher that AS
sells, and gave her my card.  About 2 months later, I got the cheapest
extinguisher money can buy (plastic) from Home Depo.  On a humorous note, my
Lady (RIP) laughed her but off when it came and wanted to cover it in
Vaseline, wrap it in saran wrap and send it back.  

TEC

 

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