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Default Kidde fire extinguisher recall
On 2017-11-03, > wrote:

> I heard them saying it was the lever, plastic now, not metal. Don't
> know what make mine is but only the hose is rubber as opposed to
> metal.

If it has a rubber hose and zero squeezable handle --looks like it
would stand, upside-down-- and is made of brass, it's a soda/acid
extinguisher and is probably dry. If it has a squeezable metal
handle, a hose, and what looks like a bicycle tire filler stem near
the handle and works right-side-up, it's a jes a pressurized water
extinguisher. Either way, you should ask at a reputable antique
dealer and perhaps get some "real" money, as those are some seriously
collectible extinguishers. "Collectable" is about all they are good
for, as they are painfully obsolete.

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_extinguisher> ...."History" pics
3 & 4 and "Water types", pics 2 & 3.

Kidde's extinguishers are cheap junk (A,B,C dry agent), but they are
"cheap" affordable junk and will do the job ....if in working
condition!

nb --ex fireman (USAF)
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