what's in an extinguisher's expiry date?

[Tidewaiter2]

Hi Vic, not without BA!!!

In my museum (shed at bottom of garden) I still have a beautifully engineered CTC (carbon-tetra-chloride) pump action extinguisher dating from about 1953. I used up the contents MANY years ago for useful cleaning purposes, but do still wonder how effective they were for their intended fire fighting purpose?......its capacity is less than one pint!! (probably just as well I never tried to find out: a fine aerosol of CTC might not have been a good idea).

Vic

Hi Vic,
Yes, they were brilliant at stain removal. That was the trouble- turn tap for a dribble to clean something, 30 blokes later, phutt1
As i remember my training, they were intended for small electrical fires, and the byproduct was phosgene gas-use and get of a confined space pdq, we were told.
Have a successful 2011.
Dick

 

[VicMallows]

Yes, they were brilliant at stain removal.

....and DAB-it-OFF continued in glass jars with sponge top into the 70s when presumably H&S (or was it H&E!) was invented.

Happy New Year, Vic