Lidl 6kg Fire Ext. £20

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From 11th November. 6KG Useful if only as 1 kg ones tend to run out just as you think you're getting on top of a fire. I know as I tried a 1kg one on a newly lit wheelie bin on a housing estate in Peterborough a year ago.
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There is nowhere to run to at sea. I think a 6kg one would have stood a good chance of putting the wheelie bin out.

Tim
 
I wonder how the RNLI will classify that particular service. "Launched and took Laden Bin in tow" ...maybe

Tim
 
They had the 6kg ones for £6 last year - Mrs Full Circle bought the entire stock on behalf of friends :)

We regard a 1kg one as a means of escaping from inside the boat - they don't last long enough to put out a fire. A large extinguisher in the cockpit is carried to tackle a blaze.
 
Oops, I've just ordered a 9kg extinguisher. Having watched a boat burn out of control off Cowes, I want to be able to put the fire out.
 
Interesting thoughts on size. I have 2 x 1kg in the saloon. The only way I would have to fight an engine fire would be thru the peep hole besides the port quarter berth. Oh, and I have the fire blanket close to the grill.

Only one cockpit locker and would probably have to put it one of those plastic holder/tubes to stop it corroding maybe
 
Are these dry powder? Putting down 6kg of dry powder in the confines of a yacht cabin is likely to suffocate you. I hadn't thought about this at all untill an friend pointed it out to me, I've now changed all of my extinguishers to AFFF.

Also dry powder extinguishers aren't really all that good at fighting fires, they rely on excluding the air from the flames with the powder, there is no cooling as with a liquid extinguisher. I did a ship borne fire fighting course a few years ago, as part of the course they put out an oil fire with a dry powder extinguisher, then broke the powder layer covering the oil and it lit back up again.
 
What's AFFF? Is that foam? You're right about powder on oil/fuel fires. I've also experienced this in the chemicals industry on fire-fighting courses. A break in the surface and it'll flare up. I guess that's why they normally use foam (deeper layer). Biggest problem with powder for me is the mess! I think I'd try other methods such as fire blankets or even water if appropriate before grabbing an extinguisher! This would make an interesting thread - I wonder how many forum members have actually fought a fire on board boat...and what worked / didn't work.
 
AFFF is foam (Aqueous Film Forming Foam) it's what is used throughout ships in the RN. They also use CO2 but there is no use for CO2 on a yacht as the voltages are too low to cause a problem with foam (even with an 240V system).
 
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