Ikea fire extinguishers

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Re: Pressurised Foam extinguishers

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They dont use Ox blood for foam anymore, not in europe anyway, was found to be very nasty in a lot of ways. AFFF is the one they use now, and its chemical, probably just as bad, but approved!!!! /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif

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OK - I've learnt something ... having not been involved in safety inspections for some years I have not kept up with latest data. But Chemical foam compounds were around for years already - so outing Blood based wouldn't have been hard. Boy do I remember the stink and stickiness of it - we used to look after vessels with fixed installations - big tanks up in forecastle etc. to power the monitors.

 

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Re: Pressurised Foam extinguishers

Yes, I remember it well, 'orrible stuff!!!

Glad its gone! Mourn Halon though, but the halon replacements are fine if a mite expensive.
That reminds me have to get one big one for the engine room.