Short Dated Flares Wanted

[windlipper]

Need to buy offshore flares for a one off open ocean trip. (Probably find my DSC/EPIRB/Sat Phone/SSB etc more use in an emegency).

Anyone know of any retailers that offer discounted ones that have short dates, I'm sure they don't sell them all before the sell by date!

(I know it will probably happen but It's not my intention to start a thread about the benefiits/needs to carry flares - I think that's previously been hammered to death!!)

Cheers all

 

[Slowly Duzzit]

I am sure that there were short dated / reduced price Flares at Force 4 Bursledon, today when I visited, but did not take much notice. Give them a call Tel: 02380 402182. Hope this helps.

 

[Greenheart]

The following internet address is for a Phantom dinghy, for sale...but its owner also mentions having a large supply of flares/rockets for sale, cheap, not brand new:

http://sailingdinghies.apolloduck.co.uk/display.phtml?aid=220956

If that link doesn't take you there, the chap's name is Mark and the number he supplies is 07759 483 624.

 

[JALDI]

Yachtparts in Plymouth sell short-dated flares, for collection only. See details on their website www.yachtparts.co.uk or telephone 01752 252489 or E-mail them at sales@yachtparts.co.uk.

 

[sailorman]

try a life raft service agent

 

[ostell]

The following internet address is for a Phantom dinghy, for sale...but its owner also mentions having a large supply of flares/rockets for sale, cheap, not brand new:

http://sailingdinghies.apolloduck.co.uk/display.phtml?aid=220956

If that link doesn't take you there, the chap's name is Mark and the number he supplies is 07759 483 624.

Interesting comment on that site: "Short dated, but all work ". How does he know they work?

 

[lustyd]

Marine Super Store in Port Solent often have them discounted due to date, give them a call.

 

[tom_sail]

So does force 4 in Swanwick

 

[rickym]

I have a box of flares that 'expired' 31st Dec I am sure they will still work if needed. I intend to buy a new pack for the coming season. You can have them if you want. PM me

 

[FishyInverness]

Interesting comment on that site: "Short dated, but all work ". How does he know they work?

Nicely picked up on - perhaps he tested them first?

 

[ghostlymoron]

Nicely picked up on - perhaps he tested them first?

You can never guarantee 100% that they're going to work anyway

 

[Greenheart]

Presumably those flares that he has tried, worked, and their vintage being the same, he has no reason to doubt the others?

Is there a chemist amongst us, to explode the myth of pyrotechnic expiry dates?

 

[stuhaynes]

Need to buy offshore flares for a one off open ocean trip. (Probably find my DSC/EPIRB/Sat Phone/SSB etc more use in an emegency).

Anyone know of any retailers that offer discounted ones that have short dates, I'm sure they don't sell them all before the sell by date!

(I know it will probably happen but It's not my intention to start a thread about the benefiits/needs to carry flares - I think that's previously been hammered to death!!)

Cheers all

I've got a full set of well out of date flares that you can have for nothing. They've been in the chart table, bone dry since the day I bought them. PM me if interested. If not we're going to have a day out in Bridlington, the nearest disposal point. I'm in South Yorkshire.

 

[Greenheart]

My mate bought a 1993 Mitsubishi coupe that had a distress flare in the emergency kit. He lit it during a drunken night on holiday, and it hadn't suffered at all, from nearly two decades in the boot (trunk).

 

[Sans Bateau]

I have a load of TEP's for free if you want them.

 

[emsworthy]

My mate bought a 1993 Mitsubishi coupe that had a distress flare in the emergency kit. He lit it during a drunken night on holiday, and it hadn't suffered at all, from nearly two decades in the boot (trunk).

Was the distress flare as standard in the emergency kit?? I'm guessing this wasn't a UK registered car.

Not sure I'd be happy with chemical pyrotechnics rolling around in a boot presumably inches away from a petrol tank!

 

[Greenheart]

I'm pretty certain it was a Japanese import - I mean, originally for Japanese roads. They drive on the left, don't they?

But certainly, it was part of the car's original standard kit. Owners of Mitsu 3000GT import-models may choose to remove the fireworks from their cars...